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And then their grateful though refractory patient, an authority in their eyes, indeed all but a river-god, stood poised in air, and in excited whispers interpreted each distant and unintelligible feature down to them: "Cambridge was off quickest." "But not much." "Anybody's race at present, madam." "If this lasts long we may win. None of them can stay like us."
He had a gentle step which was soft without being stealthy, and quiet movements which brought him suddenly to anybody's side before his presence was noticed.
Laredo led around the turn and into the stretch with Miller Boy and Athelstan crowding him hard, but the pace was beginning to tell on the front runners, and the rear guard was closing in on them, headed by the cherry jacket. "It's anybody's race," remarked the presiding judge as he squinted up the stretch. "Lord, what a lot of beetles!" "Yes, they're rotten," said the associate judge.
But here is a case of a law enforced with militant energy where it suits the officers of the Government to enforce it, systematically ignored in millions of cases by the same officers because it suits them to do that, and cynically violated by the direct orders of the Government itself when this course seems recommended by a cold-blooded calculation of policy ! If the laws against larceny, or arson, or burglary, or murder, were executed in this fashion, what standing would the law have in anybody's mind?
They were the only horses in Venice, they felt their dignity and their responsibility in a way foreign to animals in the public service, anywhere else in the world. Personally we would have preferred to walk to the other end of the arbour, but it would have seemed a slight, and, as the Senator said, we weren't in Venice to hurt anybody's feelings that belonged there.
"Sister is tired with her journey," said mamma tenderly; "we won't tease her to-night." "Yes," said her father, "she must go early to bed, and have a long night's rest." "Yes, papa, and then she'll be all right to-morrow, won't she? But, mamma, I wasn't teasing her, not a bit; was I, Elsie? And if anybody's been making her sorry, I'll kill him.
It was not a simile that was in his mind, or is in anybody's at such a moment, it was a pang of wordless passion, and then a silent, inward moan. A lady's wish, he said, with a certain gallantry of manner, makes slaves of us all.
If he abandoned his post he feared they would think he feared the corpse. He was no coward and he was unwilling to incur anybody's ridicule. So he again seated himself, and to prove his courage looked boldly at the body. The right arm the one farthest from him- -was now in shadow. He could barely see the hand which, he had before observed, lay at the root of a clump of laurel.
Cynthia was plainly pleased by the compliment. "How is Cousin Eph?" she asked. "Happy as a lark," said Bob, "the greatest living authority in New England on the Civil War. He's made the post-office the most popular social club I ever saw. If anybody's missing in Brampton, you can nearly always find them in the post-office. But I smiled at the notion of your being a school ma'am."
There never was sich a misfortunate nose on anybody's face a-squoking out dat way in onseasonable hours!" cried Katie. "How dare you be caught eavesdropping in these rooms, you wretch?" demanded the viscount, giving her another shake. "And why wouldn't I, you grand vilyun? And you her a-plotting of your deblish plots agin my own dear babyship I mean my ladyship, as is like my own dear baby!
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