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After having Aileen to make the place bright and pleasant and cheer us all up losing her was just as if all the little pleasure we had in our lives was dropped out of them like the sun going out of the sky, and the wind rising; like the moon clouding over, and a fog burying up everything dark and damp, the same as we'd had it many a time cattle-driving by night.
'I'll slap their faces if they speak to me. I'd like to see them try it, that's all. And now, good-bye for the present, dear. I must get home as soon as possible, for there is a storm coming, and I don't want to get my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes spoilt. When she slipped off like a white ghost into the gathering darkness, Gabriel remained at the door and looked up to the fast clouding sky.
This sun, at the end of my lingering, would beat down on my bones, whitened, disjointed and perhaps vulture-plucked. The revolver in my belt was already clouding into red rust under the washing of the night's salt water. I experimentally turned the cylinder and found that the corrosion had not yet attacked the mechanism.
While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter.
And the doctor in Boston wrote that, at times, there might arise some slight clouding of the vision if she used her eyes too much, if she suffered other physical ills, even if she were frightened or unhappy." "The last two possibilities may certainly be set aside," said Janice, with confidence. "And she is as rosy and healthy looking as she could be." "Yes," said 'Rill.
Teddy jerked a significant thumb in the direction of Phil's former home. "Bear's got a grouch on a rod wide this morning." "Oh, you mean Uncle Abner," answered Phil, his face clouding. "Yep." "Why?" "I just dropped in to see if you were ready to go to school. He yelled at me like he'd gone crazy." "That all?" grinned the other boy. "No.
At the present moment it is our duty to ask ourselves if something of the principles which we have for so long been attributing to Germany has not passed over to the other side, if in our own hearts there is not a bitterness of hatred clouding our judgment and robbing our programme of all action that can do real good.
Tom had to shake Dick Russell energetically before that young man opened his eyes. "What's the matter?" he ejaculated, drowsily. "Don't you want some breakfast?" asked Tom. "Oh, it's you, Tom! Yes, you have touched the right chord. I have a first-class appetite and no money," he added, his face clouding. "Mr.
Above his head almost he was still in the shade of the cane brake he discerned the platform of a rough tree-dwelling from which depended a vine-stem ladder, steadied by pegs driven into the ground at the base of the trunk. And, peering over the rim of the platform, like a sailor looking over the edge of a ship's spreading top, he saw Miss Sheldon, displeasure clouding her face.
Accordingly the trio set forth, Dorothy declining to follow the path but circling around the others, like an erratic planet, revolving about twin suns. Graham, who felt personally responsible for the shadow clouding Peggy's bright face, lost no time in apologizing. "Peggy, it's a shame for me to upset things so. You'll all wish that we had got discouraged over Mrs.
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