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Pretend to want something awfully, then cry off for her sake.

Look'ee, Master, if you'd wanted a bout at boxing, quarter-staff, or shortstaff, I should never be the man to bid you cry off: But for your curst sharps and snaps, I never knew any good come of 'em.

It only cost five-and-thirty then." "What-d'-ye-call'em-'Osborne,' will cry off now, I suppose, since the family is smashed.

Therefore, beholding me still an innocent-looking child, with fair curls on my forehead, and no store of bad language, John Fry thought this was the very first fight that ever had befallen me; and so when they let him at the gate, "with a message to the headmaster," as one of the monitors told Cop, and Peggy and Smiler were tied to the railings, till I should be through my business, John comes up to me with the tears in his eyes, and says, "Doon't thee goo for to do it, Jan; doon't thee do it, for gude now." But I told him that now it was much too late to cry off; so he said, "The Lord be with thee, Jan, and turn thy thumb-knuckle inwards." It was not a very large piece of ground in the angle of the causeways, but quite big enough to fight upon, especially for Christians, who loved to be cheek by jowl at it.

Of course, if you wish us to cry off-- Pilcher.

You mustn't cry off again, Sir Richard." He slipped his arm under the pillows, dexterously raising the young man's head, and held the cup to his lips. "My dear good fellow, I wish you would let me be," Dickie murmured.

But you don't mean to say that you're going to cry off!

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