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At last the man said, without stirring: "Well, I suppose we'd better be going." "I suppose so," she replied. They sat there some time longer, staring abstractedly at the kindly green forest; then Stanton abruptly arose and began to construct his pack. The girl did not move. "Come," he said at last. She arose obediently. "Follow close behind me," he advised. "Yes," said she.
Her name was the only stumbling-block. Her pupils could not pronounce it, the servants blundered over it, and Mrs. Jessop declared it "heathenish." By slow degrees it was dropped, and she became merely "Mademoiselle." "Children," said Miss Boucheafen, abruptly, "you have been good to-day, and it is fine. We will go out."
As the feelings of Barnstable were by no means so sensitive as those of his mistress, and his thoughts much occupied with the means of attaining his object, he did not so readily comprehend the indirect allusion of the soldier, but turned abruptly away to Griffith, and observed with a serious air: "I feel it my duty, Mr.
The tracks are so very unpleasant dangerous even, for the carriages of gentlefolk. There is far too much traffic allowed on the public highways nowadays, far too much. People ought to walk if they cannot keep carriages." She broke off abruptly and looked at the three small children. "These are yours?" she asked. "They seem very close together in age."
As he had lived with him upon terms of the most unreserved familiarity, he made use of the liberty of an intimate, and, without being announced, abruptly entered his chamber. Damon was sitting in a melancholy posture, his countenance dejected, and his eye languid.
They are four or five great glens, running up into a range of lofty hills, until they can run no longer, and are stopped by being abruptly strangled by Nature.
He knows!" she exclaimed superbly, her chin in the air, "but you are boys. You do not understand!" I looked amazedly at this angry woman. I had a difficulty in associating her with my cousin. As for Croisette, he stepped forward abruptly, and picked up a white object which was lying at her feet. "Yes, read it!" she cried, "read it!
He was about to mount his horse, when he glanced at the boys, who were sitting against the wall a few paces off, seemingly absorbed in their play, and paying no attention whatever to him. Suddenly he changed his mind, dropped his rein, and walked up to them. "What are you playing for?" he asked abruptly in Spanish. "Reals, senor," Tom said looking up, but not moving.
In his mood, which was not a pleasant one, each fresh blow stirred him to a grimmer effort, made with a curious quiet fury from which his comrades now and then almost shrank. Turning abruptly, he shook himself free from Saunders' grip. "Well," he said, "I'm going to bring out that powder."
I'm asking, with more humility in my heart than you can ever know, that you choose me!" As she looked at him, her eyes were incredulous. "Don't let us talk of such a thing," she said, abruptly, turning her small hand upward to meet his in a friendly clasp. "But, Katrine, it is the only thing in the world I care to talk about.
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