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"Yes," said Paul, "the money market is very tight, but I think I shall weather the storm." "I hope so, you may have to struggle hard for awhile to keep your head above the water; but you must take it for your motto that there is no such word as 'fail." "Thank you, good morning." "Well Mr. Smith," said Paul when he returned, "your father and mine were boys together.
Masouda took a key from her girdle, and, having looked around to see that they were alone, unlocked it. "Enter," she said, pushing them before her. They obeyed, and through the darkness within heard her close the door. "Now we are safe awhile," she said with a sigh, "or, at least, so I think. But I will lead you to where there is more light."
"Are yer why hurt much, Isley?" asked Bob. "Ba-back's bruk, Bob!" "Not so bad as that, old man." "Where's father?" "Coming up." Silence awhile, and then "Father! father! be quick, father!" Mason reached the surface and came and knelt by the other side of the boy. "I'll, I'll why run fur some brandy," said Bob. "No use, Bob," said Isley. "I'm all bruk up." "Don't yer feel better, sonny?"
The effect, so far, was to add to Kitty's natural distinction, to give, rather, a touch of pathos to a face which even in its wildest mirth had in it something alien and remote. But she, too, reflected that a little more, a very little more, and in a night the face would have dropped its beauty, as a rose its petals. The group stood talking awhile on the steps outside the church.
I studied awhile on it and finally put them under an old scraper beside the road, and went without them to the shops. I got from my seat-box a clean pair of overalls and jacket and came back without being seen. "I wrapped one of the packages up in these and boldly stepped out into the glare of the electric lights I remember I thought the town too darned enterprising.
“What did Dicky say?” Maida asked after awhile. “Oh, Dicky said he would believe anything you told him, no matter what it was. Dicky says he believes you’re a princess in disguise—like in fairy-tales.” “Dear, dear Dicky!” Maida said. “He was the first friend I made in Primrose Court and I guess he’s the best one.”
But for my intervention he would do his brave deed twelve days from now a deed begun and ended in six minutes and get for all reward those forty-six years of sorrow and suffering I told you of. It is one of the cases I was thinking of awhile ago when I said that sometimes an act which brings the actor an hour's happiness and self-satisfaction is paid for or punished by years of suffering."
They all look as if they were waiting for something, but nothing in particular happens. Sometimes, after the mountain has labored awhile, some little mouse of a boy and girl will get up, execute an antic or two and sit down again, when everything relapses into its original solemnity. At very long intervals somebody walks across the floor.
She settled me among some fat pillows of old purple and gold brocade, and asked if she should ring and get a little brandy. "No," I said, "I shall feel better in a few minutes. It's so nice and cool here." "You look better already!" exclaimed Di. "Soon, when you've lain and rested awhile, you'll be a different girl." "Ah, how I wish I could be a different girl!" I sighed.
"Then perhaps you have served your apprenticeship in worthless things, and the inclination to write comes now of precious things on their way, which you do not yet see or suspect, not to say know!" "But many men and women have the impulse to write, who never write anything of much worth!" Molly thought awhile. "What if they yielded to the impulse before they ought?
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