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"You'll go together to Lordkop, I expeck," she heard her companion's voice say, and at first she did not realize its meaning; then slowly it came to her. "At the finish" in his words meant the raising of the siege of Lordkop, it meant rescue, victory, restoration. Her mind was in chaos, her senses in confusion. She seemed like one in a vague shifting, agonizing dream.
Adair will be so angry!" "I am determined you shall come! you are the most stupid little thing in England!" As Miss Bruce said this, she took firm hold of her companion's frock and arm, and drew her towards the water. Isabella in vain tried to escape.
"I beg, sir," was my companion's response, "that you will not allow yourself to be too fully persuaded that you are the victim of a trick, lest the reaction, when you are convinced of the truth of my statements, should be too great."
"But hardly at the sacrifice of your nose, I should say," rejoined Frank, "which, from the deep impression it has made in the clay, must have been smashed flat as a pancake had it battled out the matter with the stones." The young poet had a great regard for his nose, and his companion's remarks upon the subject were so palpable, that he was not only silenced but convinced. "I say here, my man.
The other was listening without interruption. At last, as the quiet, confident tones ceased, the superintendent straightened himself up, and his small, quick-moving, dark eyes shot their gleam of cold authority into his companion's. "It's up to you," he said, with a callous upraising of his shoulders. "You've talked a good deal to me here, and you've made your talk sound right.
"The year's too young. And at my age one feels very often as if the advantage of youth were an unfair advantage." "Dare I ask ?" She checked herself, looking at her companion's snow-white hair, which was arranged in such a way that it looked immensely thick under the big black hat she wore a hat half grandmotherly and half coquettish, that certainly suited her to perfection.
After playing together for some time with the ball, the two boys began to feel quite acquainted with each other. Rollo wished very much to find out his new companion's name; so he asked him, in English, "What is your name?" The boy smiled, and throwing the ball across again to Rollo as he spoke, said something in reply; but it was a great deal too much to be his name.
"I am going to be French mistress in a High School," Claire said sturdily, and hated herself because she winced before the eloquent change of expression which passed over her companion's face. Mrs Fanshawe said, "Oh, really! How very interesting!" and looked about as uninterested the while as a human creature could be.
But I'm just tickled nearly to death at the chance of this little cruise up the Big Sunflower." "I can guess why," Max observed, as he kept pace with his nervous companion's quick strides. "The new canoes!" exclaimed Steve; "it gives us the chance we've been wanting to find out how they work in real harness. We've only tried little spins in them so far, you know, Max. Gee!
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