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"Cool as a fish!" commented Furneaux. "Well, sir, I didn't get hot over it," said the surprised chauffeur. "I'm not talking about you. Could you manage another run to town? Are you too tired?" The mystified Tom looked at his employer. Dr. Stern laughed. "Go right ahead!" he cried. "I'm thinking of buying a new car.
For my own part, I did not dread death, for I had nothing to care to live for; but I dreaded the encounter because of the responsibility connected with it. I resolved however to work hard, and thus grow cool, and quick, and forceful. The time passed away in work and song, in talk and ramble, in friendly fight and brotherly aid.
There was something inside which she wanted to see there was something somehow there was something which wanted to see her. What a pity that the door was locked! Why had it been done? She sighed unconsciously several times during the evening, and Jane Foster thought she was tired. "But you'll sleep cool enough to-night, Judy," she said. "And get a good rest.
He was but a married old bachelor, and fancied he must keep up his dignity in the eyes of his wife, not having yet learned that, if a man be true, his friends and lovers will see to his dignity. So his anger went on smouldering all night long, and all through his sleep, without a touch of cool assuagement, and in the morning he rose with his temper very feverish.
"Because if you don't really want to," went on Cousin Ann, "I don't see that it's doing anybody any good. I guess Hemlock Mountain will stand right there just the same even if you did forget to put a b in 'doubt. And your syrup will be too cool to wax right if you don't take it out pretty soon."
It had just occurred to him that to while away his time he also might call for a moment at Silviane's, where, like the others, he had his entrees. On reaching the cold and solemn courtyard he said to the priest, "Ah! it does one good to breathe a little cool air. They keep their rooms too hot, and all those flowers, too, give one the headache."
A black bodice, fastened with silver clasps, is covered in front with the ends of a brilliant silk kerchief, laid in many folds around the shoulders. The white shirt-sleeves are very full and fastened up above the elbow with coloured ribbon. If the weather is cool, the women wear a short black jacket, with satin yoke and high puffed sleeves.
But I know them now, and I feel as cool as an arctic iceberg. I shall sleep when I turn in again." "Well, where are we going, Captain, if it is no longer a secret?" asked the engineer. "It is not a secret now; and we are to cruise off the mouth of the Cape Fear River," replied the commander, as he proceeded to give the information more in detail.
"But go on!" urged Rozina; "what occurred after that in Toroczko?" "Nothing further is said about Toroczko," answered the other. "Have you no spies there?" demanded the marchioness. "No, there are no informers in Toroczko. There was one, but you have made him your slave." "And you can sit there so calm and cool!" cried the woman, in a passion.
Rather than objecting to the short cut that Thornton had begun to negotiate, the road, now that she gave her attention to it, she found to be quite the prettiest bit she had seen in the whole afternoon's run, where, in the rough, sparsely settled north country, all was both pretty and a delight miles and miles without the sign of even a farmhouse, just the great Maine forests, so majestic and grand in their solitude, bordering the road that undulated with the country, now to a rise with its magnificent sweep of scenery, now to the cool, fresh valleys full of the sweet pine-scent of the woods.
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