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The best Death Duty I know is to do what the dead ask us and not what they'd turn in their graves if they knew of. And poor Arthur who did everything in the world for me, even down to marrying my sister Ellen ..." Edward Huxtable managed to escape. "Drat that woman," he said to himself "she's a terror.
But she belonged to the county, and she seemed moreover to be a normal healthy young woman who would be the mother of normal healthy children. And this was the sort of wife Piers wanted. For Piers drat the boy! was not normal. He inherited a good deal of his Italian grandmother's temperament as well as her beauty. And life was not likely to be a very easy matter for him in consequence.
She was so happy and hopeful and full of life and eagerness. When I think of what she was then and what she is now, I say drat the men!" Miss Cornelia snipped her thread off as viciously as if, Nero-like, she was severing the neck of mankind by the stroke. "Dick Moore came into her life that summer.
"Thank God, little Davy! the varmints didn't get ye." "And you, Tom?" I answered, looking up at him, bewildered with happiness. "They was nearer than I suspicioned when I went off," he said, and looked at me curiously. "Drat the little deevil," he said affectionately, and his voice trembled, "he took care of Polly Ann, I'll warrant."
"Now, there you are, my dear, take what you like," she said, "and pay it back if you wish, but if you don't, it might have been worse spent." And she pushed the receptacle, labelled "Imperial Pekoe," towards him across the table, adding, "Drat those moths! There's another on my best silk."
For a fresh sound of hoofs smote on our ears this time in the lane a tune pounded out to the accompaniment of loose stones volleyed and dropping between the beats. "Drat the man's impidence," said Miss Belcher coolly; "he's taken my mare!" "What's that you say?" demanded Mr. Rogers's angry voice from the yard. "You won't find another horse, Jack, unless you brought him. Whitmore keeps but one."
There was another silence; then, abruptly, the man asked: "She herself doesn't know yet of course does she?" "But she does, sir." sobbed Nancy, "an' that's what makes it all the harder. She found out drat that cat! I begs yer pardon," apologized the girl, hurriedly. "It's only that the cat pushed open the door an' Miss Pollyanna overheard 'em talkin'. She found out that way."
'Drat me, if she baint a-going to fight me! he chuckled humorously. 'Come, Maud, you would not be ill-natured, sure? Arter all, it's only our duty. Governor bid us kiss, didn't he? 'Don't don't, sir. Stand back, or I'll call the servants. And as it was I began to scream for Milly. 'There's how it is wi' all they cattle! You never knows your own mind ye don't, he said, surlily.
Drat all tea-parties! say I. I was never comfortable at one in my life. If you'd give me my choice between going to a tea-party and picking potato-bugs off the vines all alone on a hot summer day, I shouldn't hesitate a moment between the two. I should choose the bugs; and I can't say I fancy potato-bugs, either. On Wednesday I nearly killed an old lady, putting up tartar-emetic for cream-tartar.
"... must be a time-jump," the man's voice said, doubtfully. "I tell you, Ellen, those damned fools were firing at him, up there in the air, while you were still with him in the apartment. That's an angle on this psi factor stuff we hadn't expected." The voice stopped for a moment. Then it picked up again. "Drat it!
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