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The long and the short |
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But it's gone, that's the long and the short of it, and you'll just have to change to a red flann'l one till I can get time to make a new one. However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage--of marriage, you know," said Mr. Now, then," I continued, "I COULD work both kinds of prophecy -- the long and the short -- if I chose to take the trouble to keep in practice; but I seldom exercise any but the long kind, because the other is beneath my dignity. |
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