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Then," he continued rapidly, "I can see the house where I am going to live, with the Pasteur Boiset, an old white house with woods above and all about it, and the beautiful lake beneath, and beyond, a great mountain. There is a tree in the garden opposite the front door, like a big cherry tree, only the fruit looks larger than cherries," he added with confidence.
Nobody spoke as Polly stopped. Then little Linus, away over in the corner, piped up: "I wasn't some cherry pudding!" Than made them laugh, and set the tongues going. "Aw, ye'll have ter wait till ye git home!" returned Cornelius O'Shaughnessy. "Why will he? Why can't we all have some, Miss Lucy?" The rest fairly held their breath at Elsie Meyer's boldness. The nurse laughed.
I went and peered through the bars at a faint object pressed against other bars in just another slit across a black passage. "What, Jackie, boy; what, Jackie?" Blinking his eyes, as if the dim light were too strong for them, a thin, bent man stood there in a brilliant new court coat. His face was meagre in the extreme, the nose and cheekbones polished and transparent like a bigaroon cherry.
The whole border was still appalled at the massacres of Wyoming and Cherry Valley, and the savages were continually spreading over a wider area. Braxton Wyatt at the head of his band, and with the aid of his Tory lieutenant, Levi Coleman, had made for himself a name equal to that of Walter Butler. As for "Indian" Butler and his men, no men were hated more thoroughly than they.
But Martin's high-minded generosity knew no limits. "It was no use making two bites at a cherry; what had to be done had better be done quickly." And he clinched the argument by taking a canvas bag from his pocket, and pouring out a little heap of sovereigns on to the table.
"You are perfectly right, Louise," said her father, well pleased; "that is a good thought; this is an excellent place for beehives: to-morrow I'll see about some. Two or three we must have, and that directly, that the bees may have the advantage of the apple and cherry bloom. Thus we can see them working altogether, and learn wisdom from them, and watch how they collect honey for us.
A drop of blood, from the napkin in which his head was wrapped, had touched the bosom of her dress, staining it as if a cherry had been crushed there. She sat, gazing with an anguish of hope upon his pale face. A shudder ran through him, and he opened his eyes only for a moment. He groaned, and slowly closed them. The tears could no longer be restrained.
Not quite! said Cherry, with a spiteful shiver. 'I thought from your saying "at present" Tom observed. 'Really, upon my word! I had no idea you would press me so very closely on the subject, Mr Pinch, said Charity, blushing, 'or I should not have been so foolish as to allude to oh really! won't you walk in?
It was the typical shop of the poor quarter, a shop entirely English. Here were vended tobacco and sweets, cheap pipes of clay and cherry wood; penny exercise-books and penholders jostled for precedence with comic songs, and story papers with appalling cuts showed that romance claimed its place beside the actualities of the evening paper, the bills of which fluttered at the doorway.
His absence was a real relief to Cherry, who felt curiously tired and spent after a wakeful night, and looked pale.
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