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I had always hoped for something better in the way of burglars. I hope you won't be offended but really, you know, you don't look DESPERATE enough." "It's our first offence," said Mr. Daddles. "That's what I thought," said the stranger heartily, "but I didn't like to say so, for fear of hurting your feelings. Cheer up, you'll improve as time goes on." "Have you been here long?" I asked.
Miss Petingill was very much afraid of burglars; she lay awake half the night listening for them and nothing on earth would have persuaded her to go anywhere, leaving behind what she called her "Plate."
"What's my Rocking Horse down there for?" he wanted to know. "He fell down with the burglars," said Daddy. "And, oh, look! Here is my Sawdust Doll out here in the hall!" cried Dorothy. "I had her in my room when I went to sleep. How did she get out here?" "Maybe the burglars took her and were carrying her away with them when they slipped and fell downstairs with the Horse," said Daddy.
There ought to be no need of sitting down before the thing with tools and dynamite like burglars at a safe; of mustering crucibles and reagents like assayers at some doubtful and recalcitrant piece of ore. Now these not very adept defenders of Mr. Meredith seem to assert that these processes are desirable in any case, and necessary in his.
When she and David had put the room in fair order, I placed two easy-chairs for my wife and Aunt Martha at a moderate distance from the burglars, and took another myself a little nearer to them, and then told David to seat himself near the other end of the bench, and Alice took a chair at a little distance from the ladies.
At this moment David announced the milkman. Counselling my man to keep strict guard over the prisoners, I went out to the road, stopped the milkman, and gave him a message which I was certain would insure the prompt arrival at my house of sufficient force to take safe charge of the burglars. Excited with the importance of the commission, he whipped up his horse and dashed away.
On the threshold of the drawing-room Jean paused and said: "The important thing with burglars is to fire first, old cock. Good-night. Pleasant dreams." He shut the door and turned the key. Firmin stared at the decorated panels blankly. The beauty of the scheme of decoration did not, at the moment, move him to admiration.
It never rains but it pours; and just at this time midnight burglars took to raiding our suburban town, and dogs came into fashion. Mac came into it with a long jump. He had been part of the outfit of a dog pit in a low dive on the East Side which the police had broken up.
He pushed me back into the little patch of moonlight. "Oh! is it you?" he said, relaxing his grasp. "What do you want? A mustard plaster?" He had a package of patent plasters in his room. You took one and dipped it in hot water, and it was all ready. "No," said I, gasping a little. "Burglars." "Oh!" he said, and he put down his pistol and put on his clothes.
One of my arms looks like a Persian ribbon." Mrs. Winslow cried out in unfeigned sympathy. She wished Miss Hopkins would use her liniment that she used for Cyril when he was hurt by the burglars at the bank; he was bruised "terrible."
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