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They both went to the same school and were in the same class, and there was nobody else in the class but those two. Henry, who was the most diligent scholar, was at the head of the class, and Jack was below him, and, of course, as there were only two, he was at the foot. "One day there was company at the house, and one of the ladies asked the boys how they got along at school.
But they, being below us, and crowded to boot, could not use their superiority to advantage, and though they did what mortal men might to get at us, we beat them back time after time. Joe, beside me, was a host in himself.
But from the double death shall know, That truth and love yet live below!" The sun sinks down the gate's in view, The cross looms dismal on the ground The eager crowd gape murmuring round. His friend is bound the cross unto. . . . Crowd guards all bursts he breathless through: "Me! Doomsman, me!" he shouts, "alone! His life is rescued lo, mine own!" Amazement seized the circling ring!
Some folks think me a tough-hearted old fellow, and so I am; but that scene was more than I could bear without shedding tears. "Robert told us that his vessel had been thrown upon the beach a mile or two below, and that he feared all the crew had perished save himself.
He evidently did not hear the remark addressed to him, for he paid no attention. The Doctor joined him. Through the window they could see the street below, crowded now with scurrying automobiles. The sidewalks were thronged with people theater-goers, hurrying forward, seeking eagerly their evening's pleasure.
Denman, still dazed and with a splitting headache, was assisted aft and below to the spare berth in the captain's quarters, where he sank into unconsciousness with the moaning of the stricken woman in his ears.
All watched with quickened breath and brave souls that living wave, blue below, and bright with a steely glitter above, as it flowed down the street and away to distant battle-fields already stained with precious blood. "There he is! The outside man, and tallest of the lot.
The inhabitants of the Yoxham rectory, who were well born, ladies and gentlemen without a stain, who were hitherto free from all base intermarriages, and had nothing among their male cousins below soldiers and sailors, parsons and lawyers, who had successfully opposed an intended marriage between a cousin in the third degree and an attorney because the alliance was below the level of the Lovels, were peculiarly averse to any intermingling of ranks.
The governor investigated whether either of them had taken anything on board below the city.
"You won't go alone, sir?" asked he. "Indeed, and I shall, Dolly, and come back the same way. Don't you fear for me, my lad," said I; "I've been in a fog before in my life, and out of it, too, though I never loved them overmuch. If there's danger down below, one man has eyes enough to see it. It would be a mortal waste and pity that four should pay what one can give.
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