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But that there was something too warm and life-like in them, I would here have compared this couple to the ghosts of two young lovers who had died long since in the glow of passion, and now were straying out of their graves, to renew the old vows, and shadow forth the unforgotten kiss of their earthly lips, beside the moonlit spring.
"Oh, but they're big enough and precious fierce and strong. I shouldn't wonder at all if that was one of the brutes." "What's that?" asked Sir Humphrey, a couple of hours later, for the man with the boat-hook turned and spoke. "Don't see as I can get any farther, sir; the boat's about wedged in here, and there don't seem any way of getting on without we had a saw."
We sat down tired and perspiring, and hired a couple of Chinamen to curse those people who had beguiled us. Thus refreshed, we presently resumed the march with renewed vigor and determination.
You see there is no time to lose, for Llewellyn and his men may be back to-night. If they find Oswald's party this morning they will return at once, if they don't they may not be back till the morning. But we cannot count on that, what has to be done must be done at once." He sat thinking a little longer. "We must cut down a couple of trees and make a ladder, Beorn.
"No; telling my head clerk to send over a wedding-present for you," he said, his face softening under the eye of Mr. Spriggs. "I've got just the thing for you there. I can't see anything good enough over here." The young couple were warm in their thanks. "What did you mean, about your money?" inquired Mr. Spriggs, turning to his future son-in-law. "Nothing," said the young man, evasively.
It occurred to him that they would be characterized as a singular couple. To combat this he drew around him all the mysteries of sentiment that had issued from her voice and her eyes. She had made Earth lovely to him and heaven human. She what a grief for ever that her origin should be what it was!
He could not help knowing, however, lounging about the house as he did, that Cleo was disliked by all the company, she and the stage manager being bracketed together as a pair of bullies. He was aware he himself was better liked, for he got on very well indeed with a couple of the men and thought them "very decent fellows."
Which if they was ever a nicer old man than him, or a nicer old woman than his wife, I never run acrost 'em yet. They lived all alone, them Witherses, with only a couple of niggers to help them run their farm. After we eats our dinner and Sam gets his'n out to the kitchen, we sets out in front of the house and gets to talking with them, and gets real well acquainted.
Along the Fox River, a few miles above Wedron, Ill., an old-timer named Andy Haskins has a shack, and he has made most of the record fish catches in that vicinity during forty years. He has a big record book containing dates and weights to impress visitors. Last summer a young married couple from Chicago camped in a luxurious lodge three miles above old Haskins's place.
The Subaltern found his Major, and reported that he had failed to find his Platoon. The Major was too sleepy to be annoyed. "I expect they'll turn up," he said. "We got some food in that house there; I should go and see if there is any left, if I were you." Followed a couple of hours or so of interrupted sleep, disturbed by the cold.
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