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'I don't think it would be wise to tell Miss Fowler about it, do you? Her heart is so irritable in this weather. Dr. Hennis looked at her admiringly as he packed up his bag. 'No. Don't tell anybody till we're sure, he said, and hastened to the 'Royal Oak, while Mary went on with the paraffin. The village behind her was as quiet as usual, for the news had not yet spread.
When Sallette heard of the reward, he disguised himself as a farmer, and provided himself with a pumpkin, which he placed in a bag. With the bag swinging across his shoulder, he made his way to the house of the Tory. He was invited in, and deposited the bag on the floor beside him, the pumpkin striking the boards with a thump. "I have brought you the head of Robert Sallette," said he.
Hastily seizing my bag and before I was half awake I started rapidly across the meadow, in my excitement tripping and falling several times in the first hundred yards.
We also disputed for about thirty cloves of garlic, which had been found accidentally in a little bag: all these disputes were generally accompanied with violent threats, and if they had been protracted we should, perhaps, have come to the last extremities.
I have seen sleeping-bags of the finest reindeer-skin spoilt in a comparatively short time if they contained a few patches of this thin skin, as of course the cold penetrates more easily through the thin skin, and gives rise to dampness in the form of rime on meeting the warmth of the body. These thin patches remain damp whenever one is in the bag, and in a short time they lose their hair.
Sally glanced round, and noticed that the grain bag lay burst open not far away. She fancied that he had clung to it after he lost his footing, which explained why he had fallen so heavily, but that was not a point of any consequence now. There was nobody who could help her within two leagues of the spot, and it was evident that she could not leave him there to freeze.
Here is a man who climbs by slow degrees to the head of his profession and lives in popular admiration, and some day he sees a younger competitor shooting ahead of him, and all is lost a bag with holes.
'There's SOMETHING, he said, and reached out his hand. It touched something that felt more like a damp bag of marbles than anything else that Cyril had ever touched. 'I believe it IS a buried treasure, he cried.
When he was sound asleep the fairies came and carried him off, bag and all, and took him under the earth, and when he awoke he found himself in a great palace of gold, full of fairies dancing and singing. And they took him and showed him everything, the splendid gold room and gardens, and they kept dancing round him until he fell asleep.
And, more than that! Some memoranda, relating to the fraud for which I had vainly endeavoured to take him, were found to be, at that moment, lying in that very same individual Carpet Bag!
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