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"You really must do something for this boy Pierce Phillips." Mrs. Cavendish spoke with decision. The newspaper which the colonel was reading was barely six weeks old, therefore he was deeply engrossed in it, and he looked up somewhat absentmindedly. "Yes, yes. Of course, my dear," he murmured. "What does he want now?" "Why, he wants his liberty! He wants this absurd charge against him dismissed!
"Then it's settled." Mac bundled Kaviak into the Boy's bunk. When the others were ready to go out again, Farva caught up his fur coat and went along with them. The dogs were not quite ready. The priest was standing a little absentmindedly, looking up.
Here, when certain boxes had been left, he seated himself, as if absentmindedly, upon the remote rear of the truck and was borne to another stopping place. The truck's driver glanced back savagely at him, but not too savagely; then pretended to ignore him. The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition.
He is not a creature of sentiment; are you, Burke? The Captain believes with Napoleon that God is on the side that has the heaviest artillery." Burke lighted his pipe and drummed absentmindedly on the table with his match-box. "I can't afford to be sentimental," he said. "Not in my business." "Of course not," Clay assented, cheerfully.
"Well, she were my sister after all, Miss Lucy," retorted Cook, "and perhaps I may, or may not, know what she done. I say she swole and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy. All along of drinking water.... Drops of water Dropsy." "Never drink water," murmured Dam, absentmindedly annexing, and pocketing, an apple. "Ah, water, but you see this is lemonade," countered Lucille.
"Oh, yes," he answered absentmindedly, as if already his brain were busy with something else. "What time did you fix for starting? I didn't hear?" "I said to Joseph that it would do if he were on hand at half-past ten. You can rest till nine o'clock." "Thank you. And now, good night. You've been very kind to-day. Maybe I didn't seem grateful, but I was, all the same; very, very grateful."
While absentmindedly taking a more lingering look than is consistent with safety when picking one's way along the narrow edge of the roadway between the stone-strewn centre and the ditch, I run into the latter, and am rewarded with my first Cis-atlantic header, but fortunately both myself and the bicycle come up uninjured.
Whether Miss Van Buren forgot me or not, in dealing out cups when tea was made, at all events she pretended to, and reminded by her stepsister, gave me tea without sugar. Then, begged for one lump, she absentmindedly dropped in three, while talking with Starr. Robert would certainly have been tempted to shake her if he had been present at that tea-party.
So far it was impossible to foresee the end. It was anybody's game. Crass became so excited that he absentmindedly opened his mouth and shot his second pint down into his stomach with a single gulp, and Bundy also drained his glass and called upon Philpot and Easton to drink up and have another, which they accordingly did.
"How?" asked his father, rather absentmindedly. "How?" "Just cut the wires!" said Freddie, as though no one but himself had thought of that. "If I had one of those cutter-things the telephone man had, when he climbed the pole in front of our house, I could cut the wires and we could go right on up the creek." "Yes, I suppose so, my little fat fireman," said Mr. Bobbsey.
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