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Joan took no heed of them, but seeing my eyes unclose, and hearing me moan, stopped short. "Hurts thee, lad?" "No." 'Twas not my pain but the sight of the sinking sun that wrung the exclamation from me "I was thinking," I muttered. "Don't: 'tis bad for health. But bide thee still a-while, and shalt lie 'pon a soft bed."
Gwynne and she had seen a great deal of him, considering the few weeks of their acquaintance the more she marvelled that he had ever chosen Sara Derwent for his wife. Their union must have been like that of night and day, fierce fire and unstable water. Olive longed to fathom the mystery, and could not resist saying. "You were talking of your sister a-while ago.
It got so for a-while at one school thet not a child in school could be hired to put his hand in the wood-box, not knowin' ef any piece o' bark or old wood in it would turn out to be a young alligator or toad-frog thawin' out. Teacher hisself picked up a chip, reckless, one day, an' it hopped up, and knocked off his spectacles. Of cose it wasn't no chip.
You see, he was one of the best hearted men that ever lived one of those men, you know, that just naturally believes in everybody. "Well, it wound up after a-while by John losin' mighty nigh everything. We managed to save the homestead, but practically all the stock had to go. An' it wasn't more than a year after that till Mary died.
He lowed at first thet like ez not the monitor was cuttin' up some sort o' didoes, the way monitors does gen'ally, so he waited a-while; but it kep' a-gittin' worse, so d'rectly he got up, an' he went in to see what the excitement was about; an'lo and beholt!
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