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"I can't stay to supper, but I'll keep the Indians away till the major comes," he said. "What were you thinking of when I surprised you?" "What was I thinking of?" She stopped working while she repeated his words and folded her hands about the handle of the rake as if to rest awhile.
The dear creature now comes almost at the first word, whenever I desire the honour of her company.
But when your ideal man comes the one who compels your respect and admiration for his strength of character, and for the usefulness of his life, the one whom you cannot help loving for his manhood alone mate with him no matter how light his purse or how lowly his rank in the world. And so you see, as soon as I learned to know you, I realized what you were to me.
It will be better to let the plans mature a little. A mere plot doesn't mean much. News value comes in action. When something actually happens, then, knowing what lies behind it, the story becomes big. "What we really want to find out is whether this plot as it seems to be is just a matter between two or three men, or if it is widely spread over all the islands of the West Indies.
And if it was my last words I'd say it there was a button on the neck." "Well, I know that," cried Jem; "and what's the good of a button being on, if it comes off directly you touch it? Is it any good, Mas' Don?" "Oh, don't ask me," cried the lad, half-amused, half annoyed, and wishing they'd ask him to tea. "He dragged it off, Master Don." "I didn't."
Our hall stood on the hill crest above church and village, beyond the reach of creeping river mist and sudden floods, and I rode down the track that crosses the lower road and so comes to the ford below Osgod's place on the Essex side of the river.
I believe that that is perfectly right and natural, provided we also make efforts to be sincere and to love the truth. Because it is emotional, its value as an outlet for feeling is very great. It does not remain at its first emotional level. Later on there comes an inevitable change when many think, quite wrongly, that they are losing their religion.
But there was a marked seriousness of tone in the remarks when he ended. "Well, that is pretty rough." "Yes, sir, that's going too far. The Judge ought to know where to stop. I don't stand by no man when it comes to a shabby trick on an unprotected school-marm." "A real lady, too I could see that when she went by with you, Strong."
But when you go out into the world, you will soon forget it. 'Yes, said Silver, tranquilly. The days flew by and the ice moved out. This is the phrase that is always used along the lakes. The ice 'moves out' of every harbor from Ogdensburg to Duluth. You can see the great white floes drift away into the horizon, and the question comes, Where do they go?
"But thar comes a time when the feud is over, an' 'Doby an' Billy turns in better friends than before. For a month mebby thar's a Mexican girl which she's a cousin that a-way or some kin to 'Doby's wife who's been stayin' at 'Doby's house, sorter backin' their play.
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