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"Good land!" he stammered. "I didn't know I did it; honest truth, I didn't." Phoebe's smile was still there, faint, but very sweet. "Why did you stop?" she queried. "I didn't ask you to." "Why did I stop? Why, because I I I declare I'm ashamed " She took his hand and clasped it with both her own. "I'm not," she said bravely, her eyes brightening as the wonder and incredulous joy grew in his.

Bijonah scratched his head and looked at the girl helplessly. He had yet to score his first victory over her in an argument. "Have you asked your mother?" he queried at last, seeking his time-worn refuge. "Yes," said she, brightening at the imminence of victory, "and she says she thinks it will be just the thing." "All right," said Bijonah weakly; "come along then.

While she was relating her encounter with Robinson, and her previous acquaintance with him, the knock of a born fool at a sick man's door made them all start. It was Rutila, with a long letter bearing an ample seal. Mr. Eden took it with brightening eye, read it, and ground it almost convulsively in his hand. "Asses!" cried he; but the next moment he groaned and bowed his head.

'She believed, said Winnie, her cheek flushing and her eyes brightening as she went on, 'that of all the schemes devised by man's evil genius to spoil his nature, to make him self-indulgent, and luxurious, and tyrannical, and incapable of understanding what the word "love" means, the scheme of showering great wealth upon him is the most perfect. 'Ah, yes, yes; the old nonsense.

When, brightening as it descended, the sun shone level upon the place where we were sitting, I saw John pull his broad straw hat over his face, and compose himself, with both hands clasped upon his breast, in the attitude of sleep. I knew he was very tired, so I spoke no more, but threw my cloak over him. He looked up, thanked me silently, with his old familiar smile.

"Where did you live?" "Newfane." Instantly the man's face lighted. "I know that place well. And you came from Newfane here? How did you happen to do that?" "My father could not make the farm pay and we needed money." "Humph! Were you sorry to give up farming?" "Yes, sir. I didn't want to come to Freeman's Falls. But," added the boy brightening, "I like the school here."

My good friend the governor had no tendencies in the latter direction, and abundance of them in the former, and was consequently as wholesome and invigorating as the west-wind with a little spice of the north in it, brightening the dreary visages that encountered us as if he had carried a sunbeam in his hand.

Why, de very looks of de man is worth everyting; and who ever thought o' doin' anyting for deir souls, or cared ef dey had souls, till he begun it?" "Well, at any rate," said Digo, brightening up, "I don't believe his doctrine about de doings of de unregenerate, it's quite clear he's wrong dar." "Who cares?" said Candace, "generate or unregenerate, it's all one to me.

His airy gayety, coming to him from a thousand sources, communicated itself to the family, and Ilbrahim was like a domesticated sunbeam, brightening moody countenances, and chasing away the gloom from the dark corners of the cottage.

I ain't got no excuse, Joe, I ain't got no excuse at all." "Well, Mother, you'll be safe here, anyhow, and I can stand it," said Joe, brightening a little, the tense severity of his face softening. "Never mind; I can stand it, I guess." "I'll never let you go to him I didn't mean to do it it wasn't fair the way he drove me into it!" said she.