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But few passengers had been waiting, for this was one of the slowest trains in the day, but now at this last moment there came the sound of running footsteps, a man's footsteps, echoing in strong heavy beats.

"Works him up into perfect rages, your aunt Sally says; says he acts as if he would really hit the man, sometimes." "Aunt Polly, it beats anything I ever heard of. Why, he's just as gentle as mush." "Well, she's worried, anyway. Says your uncle Silas is like a changed man, on account of all this quarreling.

"Perhaps so, Emily, but I shall be so glad when the day comes when no mask of smiles can cover the workings of the heart, so glad; when we can really know each other." "Those are Louis' sentiments." "Oh yes, my dear boy! he has a heart that beats as mine, Emily, and after many days it shall come to pass that the desires of his heart shall be gratified."

"P'r'aps you are not aware, sir, that the lady's Eye-talian 'usbin' ain't no good?" "I have heard something of the sort." "Then you've heard something right, sir. They do say as 'ow 'e beats her." "The scoundrel!" "Scoundrel! You should 'ave seen No. 18 last night when I tole 'im that. My conscience! 'E went on awful, 'e did. 'E seemed to be mad about Mrs. Capella." "He is her cousin." "Cousin!

"Two of you," she said, "come with me that I may learn what it is that has befallen; I heard the voice of my husband's honoured mother; my own heart beats as though it would come into my mouth and my limbs refuse to carry me; some great misfortune for Priam's children must be at hand.

The pupil who never gets over the habit of playing in measures, who never sees the composer's message as a whole rather than in little segments can never play artistically. Many students fail to realize that in some pieces it is actually misleading to count the beats in the measure.

I wanted him to catch a golden eagle this morning, and tame it for Miss Westonhaugh, but he said it would eat the jackal and probably the servants, so I have given it up for the present." Isaacs was evidently in a capital humour. Ram Lal approached us. I saw at a glance that Ram Lal the Buddhist, when on his beats in the civilisation of Simla, was one person.

"Every wholesale house is; no matter what line it is in, or who it is, the wholesale dealer has more or less of just such men to deal with. I know a retailer who invariably reports a shortage; he lies, of course, but he is fool enough to think he is making money because he beats every house out of a dollar or two every time he pays a bill.

It was near sunrise on the second morning of his delirium that Bobby suddenly ceased to speak and lay very quiet so quiet that an awful dread came into Skipper Ed's heart. He leaned over the still form and with fearful apprehension listened for breathing that he could not hear, and felt for heart beats that were too faint for his discovery.

"Wears it in his sleep," said Jerry, "same as his pidgearmours." But the loftiest of us cannot live forever on the Heights of Make-Believe. And Albert, as he breathed the Spring, and remembered that no one was by to see, relaxed, became himself, and began to warble not unmelodiously "When the ruddy sun-shine Beats the ruddy rain, Then the ruddy sparrow 'Gins to chirp again." Mr.