When, without loving him, she had lied with her eyes and married him, that had been a Gratton sort of tricklike stealing his partners' food Without loving him!

He became during this time a planter, though he did not continue long in this situation; and he superintended also Messrs. Bosanquets' and J. Fatio's sugar-plantation in their partners' absence.

He turned his papers over to Prather, giving Prather full power to act for him in securing the partners' surrender of their claims and straighten out everything with the Territory and get a bonafide concession.

Though the treaty was never submitted to parliament for ratification, and notwithstanding a tariff war and a serious difference with Austria on the question of control of the Danube navigation, Rumania was, till the Balkan wars, a faithful 'sleeping partner' of the Triple Alliance.

"And you can lay to this, lady, that, when a gent out of the West says 'partner' to a girl or a man, he means it.

For the Popcorn Waltz, the favors were popcorn chains for the boys to hang around their partners' necks.

You don' yeh 'ow 'e gone partner' wid a nigga?"

e gone partner' wid dat quadroon w'at call 'imself Honoré Grandissime, seh!"