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Of a truth Herr Lionardo's new clothes became me well, and I had caught an ardent expression of eye from the Italians, but otherwise I was just such a whey-face as I had been at home, with only a soft down on my upper lip. Meanwhile, the old woman ground away with her toothless jaws, as if she were actually chewing the end of her long nose.
Here's the door left open for him, endangering the whole venture, and whey-face han't plucked up heart to come! Do some of you rogues fetch him without delay; and do all of you meet me to-morrow at the Mitre, to be paid in full for this business, before reporting to his Grace." "Here," thinks I, "is beyond doubt a romance."
"I kin pray first-rate when I git started," said the Baptist teamster. The prayer-meeting took place. Afterwards Ajax said to me "She's very small, is Whey-face, but somehow she seemed to fill the adobe." In the afternoon we had an adventure which gave us further insight into the character and temperament of the new schoolmarm.
"Well, what did you find out about this job?" inquired a member of the office force who had entered from a communicating room, and the chief wrinkled his brow a little as he studied his perfecto. "It's a dirty business, Schenk," he replied crisply. "It's the kind of thing that gives knockers a license to put detectives in the same class as blackmailers and the old Whey-face himself is a tight-wad.
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