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"Anyhow, I never heard of a will that is to carry about two millions being got into nine words before." Bill poised his fishbone, and, next second, Augusta gave a start and a little shriek, for the operation had begun. "Never mind, Miss," said Bill, consolingly; "you'll soon get used to it."

"As to that, many women marry men younger than themselves," I replied, willing to tease the lady, though I could have laughed aloud at the bare idea of marriage for the Boy. "Still," I went on more consolingly, "I hardly think it will come to anything serious between them."

Warwick could not give her a sitting; and in a still mournfuller tone, imagined he would find her at home, and alone by this time. 'I left no one but Mr. Dacier there, she observed. 'Mrs. Warwick will be disengaged to-morrow, no doubt, he said consolingly. Her head performed the negative. 'They talk politics, and she becomes animated, loses her pose.

Don't laugh at me because I am nervous. I am afraid that that something might happen to you." "Well," he remarked consolingly, "every bullet has its billet, and if it does I don't see that it can be helped." "Think of Bessie," she said again. "Look here, Jess," he answered testily, "what is the good of trying to take the heart out of a fellow like this?

When he came on deck again, his face wore a smile almost of happiness, and his hand caressed one trousers pocket as though it concealed a hidden weapon. For the following three or four days the two unfortunates were worked unceasingly. Mr. Thomson complained bitterly, but the cook wore a sphinx-like smile and tried to comfort him. "It won't be for long, Harry," he said, consolingly.

"Now, look here, old man," returned Geary consolingly. "Don't you take the monkey-wrench off the safety valve like that. What am I here for if it isn't to help you? Maybe you don't know that this is a mighty unprofessional thing to do. Ah, you bet, if old Beale knew this I would get it right in the neck. Don't you suppose I can help you more as Wade's lawyer than I could as yours?

But he added in a moment: "It left a scar, nevertheless." "Never mind," said Isabel, consolingly. "All that will read delightfully in your biography. What on this difficult globe is not difficult, first, last, and always? The only thing for you to do is to snap your fingers at everything, as we do out here, and see nothing in the future but success. How do you like the land of your birth?"

Bud came back limping and whimpering with pain. "Now there, Bud," said the Bishop, consolingly. "God has spoken to you right there." "What 'ud He say?" asked Bud, looking scary again. "Why, he said through Nature's law an' voice that you mustn't hug a hoss if you don't want yo' toes tramped on." "Who must you hug then?" asked Bud. "Yo' wife, if you can't do no better," said the Bishop quietly.

He raised his face, for a deep and kindly voice spoke his name. "Petrus," said the lad, clasping the hand that the senator held out to him, "I felt forced and driven out into the world, and away from my father and now he is gone for ever how gladly I would have been kept by him." "He died a noble death, in battle for those he loved," said the senator consolingly,

"Never mind, Pete," said Monty consolingly, "none o' them shall impose on you while I'm around. Now, Alf, you and Jim give Pete just as much as the rest, or I'll make you." "Who'll you make, you brindle steer?" said Alf, laying down his bread and bristling up. "Stand back, Alf; he meant me," said Jim, disposing his meat, and approaching Monty with doubled fists.