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"I should wish her to be" Ludlow thought a moment and then concluded "happily married." "Well, that's a shame!" cried Mrs. Burton. Her husband laughed, while he knocked the ashes out of his pipe against the edge of his chair-seat. "Rough on the holy estate of matrimony, Polly." "Oh, pshaw!
That afternoon Flannery and Timmy began walking quickly when they passed the box, and toward evening, when Flannery had to make out his reports, he went out on the back porch and wrote them, using a chair-seat for a desk. One of his tasks was to write a letter to the New York office. "W.B. 23645," he wrote, "the vetinnary has seen the cat, and its diseased all right. he says so. no sine of Mrs.
The Englishman's fingers were tapping nervously on the edge of the chair-seat. "I wish you to decline, then." The childish expression left the girl's eyes, the listlessness left her attitude. "Why, if I may ask?" A challenge was in the query. Scotty arose, and for a half-minute walked back and forth across the disordered room. At last he stopped, facing his daughter.
He sat on the edge of his chair-seat, leaning forward, peering into all the faces and grinning. "Don't look at me like that so long " said Josephine, in her self-contained voice. "You make me uncomfortable." She gave an odd little grunt of a laugh, and the tip of her tongue went over her lips as she glanced sharply, half furtively round the room.
Nobody had told him that the being in the shawl was Lord Woldo, but he was sure that it must be so. Once Lord Woldo sat on a chair, but the chief nurse's lap was between him and the chair-seat. Both nurses chattered to him in Kensingtonian accents, but he offered no replies. "Go back to 262," said Edward Henry to his chauffeur.
The narrator sparkled and glowed as he told of Ristofalo's appearance, and reproduced his speeches and manner. "Tell about the apples and eggs," said the delighted Mary. He did so, sitting on the front edge of his chair-seat, and sprawling his legs now in front and now behind him as he swung now around to his wife and now to the Doctor.
Peter Galbraith, tall, gaunt, and sombre-looking, sat with his chair tilted back against the wall, rather nervously pulling at the strips of bark of which the yielding chair-seat was made. He may or may not have been listening to the song which had run through several verses. Where it had come from, no one knew; no one cared to know. The number of its verses were legion.
Peter Galbraith, tall, gaunt, and sombre- looking, sat with his chair tilted back against the wall, rather nervously pulling at the strips of bark of which the yielding chair-seat was made. He may or may not have been listening to the song which had run through several verses. Where it had come from, no one knew; no one cared to know. The number of its verses were legion.
It took some time to get used to my environment, and from first to last I was never wholly relaxed, or quite unconscious of what would happen if a chair-leg broke, or a bamboo fell across the outhouse. I swiveled round on the chair-seat and counted eight lines of army ants on the ground, converging to the post at my elbow.
"Oh, no!" cried the boy anxiously, "I think if you don't mind I'd rather you gave those to some of the other children. I can't like any fine new flowers as well as that little fellow. I feel as if he had made me well again!" The pansy expanded with pride, and a tear of gratitude rolled out of its eye, and fell with a splash on the cane chair-seat.
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