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And beyond that again the City sinks lower, and is choked and crowded with the tangled streets and little houses of the slums. In fact, if you were to mount to the roof of the Mausoleum Club itself on Plutoria Avenue you could almost see the slums from there. But why should you?

Something choked Tom for a moment, then he went on: 'If Uncle Arthur should get high, and order us out at once, as father seems to think he will, you'll you'll let us stay while Maude lives, won't you? 'Tom, Jerrie said, reproachfully, 'What do you take me for, and why does your father think his brother will order him out? 'I don't know, Tom replied, 'but he seems awfully afraid to meet him.

He wonders how the crop ever came up at all through the mass of weeds that choked it, the spurrey that filled the spaces between the stalks below, the bindweed that climbed up them, the wild camomile flowering and flourishing at the edge, the tall thistles lifting their heads above it in bunches, and the great docks whose red seeds showed at a distance.

She had left Bannisdale, choked with feeling, tired with thought. Polly's broad speech and bouncing ways were welcome as a breeze in summer. They sat down on the stile side by side. Laura gave up her errand, and they talked fast. Polly was all curiosity. When was Laura to be married, and what was she to wear? "The plainest thing I can find," said Laura indifferently.

"Maybe," said Dick, still choking with laughter, "but what on earth is happening in the wood?" "Help! Lions! Help! They're after me! Help!" The cries came thick and fast. "It's the professor," choked out Dick. "He says there are lions in there," cried Tom, looking rather alarmed, but at this juncture something happened to the donkey that momentarily distracted their attention.

They were all saying, 'There goes Steve Ricketty, about to sell his fond mother's pearls. The thought choked me, Becky, it burned my filial heart." "Don't seem as if it did your cheek no harm," observed Becky dryly. "But when I saw your face through the window there, so beautiful and sympathetic, I said to myself, 'There is a true woman.

Without inquiring concerning his fate, he said: "For two hours I have been considering whether, during my whole reign, I have voluntarily given any cause of complaint to my subjects; and with perfect sincerity I declare that I deserve no reproach at their hands, and that I have never formed a wish but for their happiness." M. de Malesherbes, choked by sobs, threw himself at his feet.

There are, sorrow on it! many lax people of your kind in Scotland this day, hangers-on at the petticoat tails of the whore of Babylon, sitting like you, as honest worshippers at the tables of the Lord, eating Christian elements that but for His mercy choked them at the thrapple. You are a wicked woman!"

"Jenny dear, it will make you so ill; lie down, little girl" and Jenny fell back on her pillow exhausted and coughing, and with eyes unearthly bright. "Theophil," she said suddenly, in that startling way sick people have, "you know that I am going to die!" He could not answer, his voice would have choked in sobs.

And this trick he served me when, one June night, after long and anxious waiting for some word from the west, my door suddenly opened and Graeme walked in upon me like a spectre, grey and voiceless. My shout of welcome was choked back by the look in his face, and I could only gaze at him and wait for his word. He gripped my hand, tried to speak, but failed to make words come.