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And she's going to be that's all." The doctor was silent for a. moment, and Sarah looked away from him, though she was conscious that he was gazing fixedly at her face. But she did not know that he saw neither her blushing cheeks, nor the groups of tall fern on the red earth-bank beyond her, nor the whitewashed cob walls of Happy Jack's cottage.
Oh, that ride! that first ride! most truly it was an epoch in my existence; and I still look back to it with feelings of longing and regret. People may talk of first love it is a very agreeable event, I dare say but give me the flush, and triumph, and glorious sweat of a first ride, like mine on the mighty cob!
There the old Dominie came, mounted on a clumsy-footed, big-headed, bay cob a little bright-eyed girl, whose face was full of sweetness and love, and dressed in blue and white, riding behind him.
Really that cob is getting oncontrollable through biding in a stable so long! If you wouldn't mind my putting on the saddle " "Very well. Take him out, certainly," says the pa'son, never caring what the clerk did so long as he himself could get off immediately. So, scrambling into his riding-boots and breeches as quick as he could, he rode off towards the meet, intending to be back in an hour.
What knew he of Pegasus? he had never mounted a generous steed; the merest jockey, had the strain been interpreted to him, would have called it a brave song! I return to the brave cob. On a certain day I had been out on an excursion. In a cross-road, at some distance from the Satanic hill, the animal which I rode cast a shoe.
Looking down at the cob filling of the wharf, Nettie Vollar said, "You came home married, I hear, and to a Chinese lady." Gerrit assented. "You'll certainly know her, and like her, too. Taou Yuen is very wise and without the prejudices " he stopped, conscious of the stupidity of his attempted kindness. Nettie looked up defiantly, biting her lip a familiar trick, he recalled.
I reckon you's right, Kizzie, an' they's hit the pike fer Marse Big Josh's. Anyhow we'll say that when Marse Bob axes us. If you tells one tale an' I tells anudder Marse Bob'll be mad as a wet hen." The old coach, creaking ominously, lumbered and rolled down the avenue. The bees, with their front door blocked by the corn cob, hummed furiously.
Through the town they went and everywhere children ran after them, and wondered at the strange puppets. And after a while they came to a little theatre and were thrown down among a lot of other puppets. "I don't intend to stay here," said Kernel Cob. "I'm going to run away. I've got to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather." "I don't think you'll be able to get away," said the Villain.
If you will pay her ten dollars a week as a beginner, and deduct her board from that, I will pay you twenty dollars a week, privately, for your responsibility in caring for her and keeping your and Mrs. Mifflin's friendly eyes on her. I'm coming round to the Corn Cob meeting to-morrow night, and we can make the final arrangements.
Conway came hurrying back to her much perturbed, to say he had quite forgotten till this moment, had not in the least understood, in fact, etc. Danvers' gray cob, that he had thoughts of buying, was waiting at the door for him to try in fact, had been waiting some time. No idea, upon his soul Ruth cut his apology short before he had done more than flounder well into it.
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