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Updated: June 17, 2025
But what the natives tell him is invariably pure fiction. ZOO. Not here, Daddy. With us life is too long for telling lies. They all get found out. Youd better ask me questions while you have the chance. THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN. If I have occasion to consult the oracle I shall address myself to a proper one: to a tertiary: not to a primary flapper playing at being an oracle.
Finally he arrived at the stage door of the Bijou Theatre, and inquired whether the rehearsal was over. "Theyve bin at it since eleven this mornin, and will be pretty nigh til the stage is wanted for to-night," said the janitor. "I'd as lief youd wait here as go up, if you dont mind, sir. The guvnor is above; and he aint in the best o' tempers. I'll send word up."
It would be an act of simple generosity on my part, I thought, to give her the wherewithal to entertain the illusion of importance. When all was said and done, she was a woman, and I could afford a chivalrous gesture even in the face of her overweening arrogance. I am sorry to say she responded with complete illgrace. "I knew youd eventually have to come crawling to me to save your hide."
"By the balls of Benjamin Franklin and the little white fringe on Horace Greeley's chin, this goddamned thing's been wrote by hand! Arent there any typewriters anymore? Did Mister Remington commit suicide unbeknownst to me?" "I'm sorry," I said stiffly. "I didnt think youd have any difficulty in reading my handwriting."
"If you particularly wish it, I will," said Marian, not disguising her reluctance. "Youd rather not, of course," said Susanna, despondently. "I am afraid I cannot be of any use to you." "For that matter, no one is likely to be of much use to me. But it's hard to be imprisoned in this den without anyone to speak to but Eliza. However, do as you please.
"For John bumpuss, aboord the Skooner fome "my darlin Jo, "ever sins you towld me yisterday that youd bin an gaged yerself into the fome, my mind has bin Onaisy. Ye no, darlint, from the our ye cald me yer own Susan in clare county More betoken iv bin onaisy about ye yer so bowld an Rekles, but this is wurst ov all. Iv no noshun o them sandlewood skooners.
Last week he made all us third-class boys write a composishun on what kind of a wife we'd like to have and the girls on what kind of a husband. He laughed fit to kill when he read them. This was mine. I thought youd like to see it. "'The kind of a wife I'd like to Have. "'She must have good manners and get my meals on time and do what I tell her and always be very polite to me.
Will you introduce me to this gentleman, Barnabas? I never forget a face. BURGE. I wish youd be serious, Lubin. God knows we have passed through times terrible enough to make any man serious. LUBIN. I do not think I need to be reminded of that.
"Have you gone over the mail yet?" "I was just going over it, sir." "Then continue, and see if you can find another letter from our mysterious friend, the pigeon fancier." The letter came to light. It read: Mr. Peter Winn, HONORABLE SIR: Now dont be a fool. If youd came through, your shack would not have blew up I beg to inform you respectfully, am sending same pigeon.
"Miss Francis," I said with dignity, "you are a lady and my selfrespect makes me treat you with the courtesy due your sex. You advertised for a salesman. Instead of sneering at my honest efforts to put your merchandise across to the public, I think youd be better advised to worry about such lowbrow things as keeping faith." "Am I to keep faith in a vacuum?
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