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"At least," resumed Polwarth, "I have this advantage over some, that I cannot be fooled with the fancy that this poor miserable body of mine is worth thinking of beside the smallest suspicion of duty. What is it but a cracked jug? So down the slope I went, got into the garden, and made my way through the tangled bushes to the house.
'Old Pipe-clay, that is what he called my friend, 'the fellow that bought me got just as much commission on me as the fellow that bought you, and that was all that he thought about. You know it is only the public money that goes! And the horrid creature grinned again till he actually cracked himself. There is a Providence above all things, even museums."
These huge bottles one could fancy them green and shining somewhere in the corn cracked one after another; positively the sound intensified the heat of the sun upon one's head. There were too now, for the first time in our experience, shrapnel. They were not over us, but ran somewhere on our right across the valley.
The mules walk slowly and heavily under their burdens, the skin of the travellers is burnt and cracked by the hot sun of the desert, their clothes are faded and covered with dust, their sandals are full of holes. Where can the caravan have come from?
What would I find beneath the rock? Resolutely I started to crawl beneath it and met Miss Broughm coming out. She was cold, her lips were blue and cracked, but she had not given up hopes or lost her courage. With her hair blowing like the frayed remnants of a flag, she stood beside the bowlder and smiled a brave if twisted smile.
Tom still hung fire. "Now I know you'll tell me," said the lady. "The names of the first two disciples were " Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of the scene. ABOUT half-past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon.
An expression of pathos, infinitely sweet and tender, had crept into the woman's thin, worn face an expression in strange, almost ludicrous, contrast to the high, cracked voice in which the talc had been delivered.
Jeff put his toy down on the table again. On one wall of the room was a looking glass. It was cracked and not very clean, but as a ray of sunshine entered the dingy basement the China Cat, by the gleam of it, saw her reflection. "Why, I hardly know myself!" she whispered, not daring, of course, to speak aloud or to move and make believe come to life.
"Nothing to look at and nothing to hear save the cracked bell of a dingy herald, who does not even ride a hobby-horse like the merry heralds of old. In truth, Master Prynne hath made good his own words when he holds that Christmas should be rather a day of mourning than one of rejoicing." "Not so thought my godfather, kind Master Breton," said Annis, thoughtfully.
Thankful opened the door of the "henhouse" and entered. The interior of the little building was no mare inviting than its outside. One room, dark, with a bare floor, and with cracked plastered walls upon which a few calendars and an ancient map were hanging. There was a worn wooden settee and two wooden armchairs at the front, near the stove, and at the rear an old-fashioned walnut desk.
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