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He was quite sufficient for all the demands of the hour, his only customers being the unprofitable gang of cattle herders whom Morgan sought. True to their training in early rising, no matter what the stress of the night past, no matter how broken by alarm and storm, they were all awake, like sailors called to their watch.
"O Jeff!" exclaimed the horrified old lady when he entered, "wounded? perhaps fatally!" "Not quite so bad as that, auntie," replied Jeff, with a hearty laugh, for Miss Millet's power to express alarm was wonderful. "I'll soon put myself to rights when I get back to the station.
As well as I could understand, the postage had been insufficiently paid, and the customary double-rate was due. The young lady searched in the pocket of her dress a cry of alarm escaped her. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "I have lost my purse, and the letter is so important!" It occurred to me immediately that she had had her pocket picked by some thief in the crowd. The clerk thought so too.
Don Pablo, from behind, shouted out, inquiring the cause of the alarm; but before any answer could be given the cause became apparent to all. Around the rock suddenly appeared the head and horns of a fierce bull, and the next moment his whole body had come into view, while another pair of horns and another head were seen close behind him!
Scores of able-bodied men from every important community saw months or years of toilsome service; many failed to return to their homes, or else returned crippled, weakened, or stricken with fatal diseases; crops were neglected, or had only such care as could be given them by old men and boys; trade languished; Indian depredations wrought further ruin to life and property and kept the people continually in alarm.
"I will take my supper up here in the dining-hall. The logs are laid and we can light the fire. You will call me if there is any alarm. What can you give me for supper you?" "Alas, monsieur, there was a time when I might have answered, 'What you wish! but now it is all that we can do to find a bottle of new claret and a cold pullet." "That will do very well.
Sunny Boy told Jimmie about the alarm clock, and he laughed. Then, after stopping at a yellow store with high white steps, where Jimmie bought some groceries for Grandma, they turned Peter's head toward home. "What are you going to do first?" asked Jimmie, smiling down at his small companion. "I don't know what are you?" "Oh, I have work to do have to weed the garden this morning.
Hull's visit that Miss Ludington had a sudden illness, lasting several days, which, during its crisis, caused much alarm. Ida turned all the servants out of the sick-room and constituted herself nurse, watcher, and chambermaid, if she lay down at all it was only after leaving a substitute charged to call her upon the slightest occasion.
I would have taxed her with some previous engagement, but that I fear it would be premature to do so at present. Dunroe is wild, no doubt of it; but I cannot believe that women, who are naturally vain and fond of display, feel so much alarm at this as they pretend.
Sybil's dark eyes opened wider and wider in amazement, but still without the least alarm. "It is enough, oh, Sybil, to repeat to you that your only safety is in instant flight," he exclaimed, dropping his face upon his hands. "Flight!" echoed Sybil, staring at him. "Why should I take refuge in flight?
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