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An' then God let me meet myself, just that once, there in the Depot Woods, to show me it's all right, an' that they's things that's bigger than time an' lots nicer than life." Calliope sat silent, with her way of sighing and looking by; and it was as if she had suggested to me delicate things, as a rainbow will suggest them.
His perturbation might have passed for surprise at the startling intelligence so abruptly communicated; but it could hardly be translated into sorrow or sympathy, and was a very imperfect simulation of astonishment. "I am going to Rennes, for the purpose of making inquiries at the railroad depôt. Will not that plan be a good one?" asked the count. "Ver ver ery good," stammered M. de Bois.
Polly met him at the depot a charming lady, sir, and a child of three was with her, a little girl, dark eyes and flaxen, curly hair. You remember Beryl? eyes like her mother's. "I was there at the depot that day. Well, it looked as if they were still in their honeymoon. "'Dear little wife! said Trove, as he kissed Polly. Then he took the child in his arms, and I went to dinner with them.
She didn't carry nothin' but one of these handbag things that women lug around with 'em." "How was she dressed?" "Fur coat and hat and a heavy veil." "You could see the veil from across the street at midnight?" "No sir. Not from there. But when she went in the depot, I followed across the street and looked inside to see what was goin' to happen." He paused a moment and then Carroll prodded him on
On the 16th we got to 85°, where again we formed a depot. From our winter quarters at Framheim we had marched due south the whole time. On November 17, in lat. 85°, we came to a spot where the land barrier intersected our route, though for the time being this did not cause us any difficulty.
General Jeff. C. Davis's division reached the depot, just in time to see it in flames. He found the enemy occupying two hills, partially intrenched, just beyond the depot. These he soon drove away.
"Do you remember the first visit I made at your house, how you gave me peanuts, coming from the depot, and frightened me out of my wits, pretending the coachman was tipsy?" asked Polly. "Of course I do, and how we coasted one day," answered Tom, laughing. "Yes, and the velocipede; you 've got the scar of that yet, I see."
When I got to Kansas City, I lacked fifty cents of having enough money to pay for my ticket east, so I borrowed that of the man at the fruit stand in the depot. In about a week from that I spoke at Atlantic City for the Philadelphia American, the proceeds being used to give the poor children an outing. Thousands of people were present.
After he had started on his return, he was taken ill on the train, and was left at a small town called Jackson, where he soon died. I drove the family to the depot upon the day of his expected arrival, and as the train came in, the women waved their handkerchiefs; and, when the conductor stepped off, they asked him if Mr. McGee was aboard. He said no "I have his remains."
On the morning of April 21, with every impatient nerve strung to its utmost tension, and full of hope, they urged their two remaining camels forward for the last thirty miles; and Burke, who rode a little in advance of the others, shouted for joy when they struck Cooper's Creek at the exact spot where Brahé had been left in charge of the depôt.
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