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Sometimes she wondered fearfully if Mellicent could have anything to do with it. Was it possible that he had cared for Mellicent, and to see her now so happy with Donald Gray was more than he could bear? It did not seem credible. There was his own statement that he had devoted himself to her solely and only to help keep the undesirable lovers away and give Donald Gray a chance.
It was with a gentle delicacy of manner, surprising to Elizabeth, that he showed her out of the office and through the outer room, where Donald Farfrae was overhauling bins and samples with the inquiring inspection of a beginner in charge. Henchard preceded her through the door in the wall to the suddenly changed scene of the garden and flowers, and onward into the house.
You know, it makes people angry to be taken for beggars when they are not beggars." "She wasn't angry," said Donald, a trifle dismayed, but still firm. "She laughed a little, and she said I was a kind, kind little darling thing. And I was!" stoutly. "It was my whole sixpence." Janet and Nora exchanged glances. "A beggar girl would never have said that," decided Janet.
'The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation. I am more gratified than I can say that Donald is taking this course. He is justifying my persistent belief in his integrity. Once cleared by a jury the ghost of that unfortunate affair will, I trust, be laid forever." "It is not so certain that he will be cleared," Mr.
"But good heavens! it's 'Donald Gray, the other character, that trusts him with the secret, and he betrays it later. This upsets the whole " "Well, talk to him. I can't help it." "It is a political secret," Potter continued, reading from a manuscript in his hand, "and almost a matter of life and death. But I trust you with it openly and fearlessly because "
One day when Stanley, in the manner of one who wishes a thing settled and settled right, said he would ask Donald Keith about it, Mildred, a little piqued, a little amused, retorted: "And what will he answer? Why, simply yes or no." "That's all," assented Stanley. "And that's quite enough, isn't it?" "But how do you know he's as wise as he pretends?"
But the Zapata brothers will think this a good time to make the Americans trouble. I was thinking of Mr. Black and Josie." "I'll bet you were," laughed Billie. "I wouldn't be surprised if they were thinking about you. Hey, Don?" "Well, they might do worse," said Donald. "There are worse fellows than Adrian." "That's right," retorted Adrian good-humoredly. "I can stand it.
"Water is sometimes frozen in the clouds in beautiful white crystals, and then they sail down to the earth." "Snowflakes," said Susie. "Sometimes drops start from the clouds and go through very cold air. The cold air freezes them quickly, and then they rattle on the roof and dash on the ground. They cut the corn leaves and destroy the crops." "Hailstones," said Donald.
As the stranger approached, the light of the fire exhibited a person of a dark countenance, with black hair, in which were stuck a few tall feathers, while his coat and leggings, ornamented with fringe, were of untanned leather. Donald at once knew him to be one of the natives of the land. The Indian approached fearlessly, and sat down beside him.
It has also been advocated with signal ability by Donald McKay of Boston, one of our most eminent naval constructors, who, after building the Great Republic, the Flying Cloud, and a fleet of other celebrated clippers, has visited the dockyards of France and England, examined their mail-clad ships upon the stocks and those already finished.
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