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And I have kissed many women in my time, too, and shall kiss more, no doubt." "But it's not because of that ?" "That I'm holding back? No. Neither is it because I funk the torture of kissing you once and letting you go. It's because I'm afraid for you." "For me?" "Listen.

The fourth member, a stout and florid gentleman of a somewhat sporting appearance, in a short smoking-jacket and black tie, sighed enviously. "Fancy one of us being as cool as that, if he knew he had to stand up within an hour and rattle off a speech in Parliament. I'd be in a devil of a funk myself.

"I think I can answer for his coming." "Do you mean Jim Greatorex?" she said. "Yes." "What is it that he won't funk?" She looked from one to the other. Nobody answered her. It was as if they were, all three, afraid of her. "I see," she said. "If you ask me I think he'd much better not come." "My dear Gwenda " The Vicar was deferent to the power that had dragged Ally's confession from her.

The half-mocking tone disappeared in a burst of laughter as John answered "Yes, of course." "And I suppose it never entered your head that Lawrence would not have been so particular about shutting your mouth without good reason." "Perhaps," said John, after a pause, "Lawrence was in a funk lest, lest " "Go on!" "Lest the thing would be exaggerated." "Exactly.

I bet he slipped into his funk hole, though, when there was an air-raid on! Dirty, filthy swine! When I was home on leave I got so wild at the way the civvies talked that I gave them a piece of my mind and told them a thing or two. And one of them called me a pro-German! He, of course, was a patriot. He was making money out of the war and wanted a fight to a finish.

Then of a sudden she grew very quiet, and Doc, looking close to her face, said, "Good God, she is dead!" Yes, dead, just as Doctor Funk hurried in, glaring to see Doc there, and saying something out loud about God damn quacks, and looking and smelling savagely at the different bottles.

"She's told me it's true what you think." In the silence that fell on the four Rowcliffe stayed where he stood, downcast and averted. It was as if he felt that Gwenda could have charged him with betrayal of a trust. The Vicar looked at his watch. He turned to Rowcliffe. "Is that fellow coming, or is he not?" "He won't funk it," said Rowcliffe. He turned. His eyes met Gwenda's.

You may depend I ascertained this before we had finished dinner. "'Do you know, said this fellow Ewbank, who was one of the downright sort, 'if it wasn't you, I should say you were in a funk of robbers? Have you lost your nerve? "'I hope not, said I, turning jolly hot, I can tell you; 'but well, it is not a pleasant thing to have to put a bullet through a fellow! "'No? said he, coolly.

"You go and glut yourself with spirits, and, not to speak of your not going to stretch yourself like a corpse and sleep it off, you contrariwise start beating your wife! But that vixen Feng brags away the whole day long, as if she were a human being as valiant as any tyrant, and yet yesterday she got into such a funk that she presented a woeful sight!

The most casual glance showed the man to be in a blue funk; he rode as one astride a thunderbolt and Alcatraz had both to plan his race and run it. A furlong from the finish he caught the rearmost of the mares and cut around them, the dust spurting sidewise.

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