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You see, he must take me for better for worse, til death do us part. Do you think he would be so ready to do that, sir, if he thought it might be for several hundred years? CONRAD. Thats true. And what about yourself? THE PARLOR MAID. Oh, I tell you straight out, sir, I'd never promise to live with the same man as long as that. I wouldnt put up with my own children as long as that.
I offered her five hundred pounds down. She wouldnt have it, of course; but could I help that? Next day, when she sent her maid for her things, I felt so uneasy that I came to Conolly, and told him the whole affair. He behaved very decently about it, and said that I might as well have left her six months ago for all the good my staying had done or was likely to do.
Catch me at it if you can. No, dear boy, I am very fond of you, and you are one of the right sort to make me the offer; but I wont let you put a collar round my neck. Matrimony is all very fine for women who have no better way of supporting themselves, but it wouldnt suit me. Dont look so dazed. What difference does it make to you?" "But " He stopped, bewildered, gazing at her.
"You dont understand. Youre talking as if I were a rake living with a loose woman." Douglas looked at him doubtfully. "I confess I do not understand," he said. "Perhaps you will be good enough to explain." "It's very simple. I went to live with her because I fell in love with her, and she wouldnt marry me. She had a horror of marriage; and I was naturally not very eager for it myself.
Slow down the rate of growth, dilute it ought to be more profitable too.... Have to find out how cheaply the inoculant can be produced no more inefficient hand methods.... Of course the fastness of growth wouldnt affect the sale to farmers help it in fact. No doubt she'd had more than I originally thought in that aspect, I conceded generously.
We were in sight of the Channel, not far from Calais, when both starboard engines developed trouble simultaneously and my pilot headed for a landingfield below. "What are you about, you fool?" I shouted at him. "Gasline fouled. I think I can fix it in a few minutes, Mr Weener." "Not down among those savages. We wouldnt have a chance." "We wouldnt have a chance over the Channel, sir.
If I had married that little fool inside there, and she had taken to drink, I wouldnt have stood it a week. I have stood it from you nearly a year. Can you expect me to stay under the same roof with you, with the very thought of you making me sick and angry?
"Oh, shut up. What do you want to know?" "First," said Gootes briskly, "what is this stuff?" "The Metamorphizer?" He nodded. "You want the chemical formula?" "Wouldnt do me or my readers the least bit of good and you wouldnt give it to me if I asked. Why should you? No, enlighten me in English." "It is a compound on the order of colchicine, acting through the somaplasm of the plant.
"Where is dad all this time?" "In his room sound asleep," said Mrs. Sherman. "I suppose he is used to sights like this. Wasn't it nice of Oklahoma to stage such a wonderful sight for us? I wouldnt have missed it for anything." "It is going to rain," said Bill, again looking out. "The thunder is growing louder and louder. Did you ever see anything like the glare the lightning makes?"
FRANKLYN. Were you fair to him when you won an election on the program of hanging him? SURGE. Stuff! I am the last man alive to hang anybody; but the people wouldnt listen to reason. Besides, I knew the Dutch wouldnt give him up. SAVVY. Oh, don't start arguing about poor old Bill. Stick to our point. Let these two gentlemen settle the question for themselves.
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