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"Yes; by the Eternal, what luck! Davis will sleep there." "So Clem says; the state chamber has been prepared for him; all the rest except Lee go back to Williamsburg." "We couldn't have arranged it better if we had been given the ordering of it. Are all the boats here?" "Yes." "And the negroes how many have you?" "I can't say. They've been dropping across in twos and threes since ten o'clock.
"What is a Christian?" asked the Indian abruptly. "A Kist'n's a dood boy," replied Tony; then, dropping his eyes for a moment in an effort to recall past lessons, he suddenly looked up with an intelligent smile, and said, "Oh, yis, I 'memers now. Elsie teach me a Kist'n boy's one what tries to be like de Lord dood, kind, gentle, fo'givin', patient, an' heaps more; zat's what a Kist'n is."
"That is a proud boy," said Eve's mother, when he had gone, and she paused a moment to see how Eve went on. "He urges no one." "Italy is full of its troubles, mia madre. He is the exile of a noble family, no other beggar would be so haughty," looked up and answered Eve, laughing between her bars. "Mamma, what different beings different meridians make!" she exclaimed, dropping her music.
She hesitated a moment, standing before him, the hood of her capote, with its rich purple, dropping from the fluttering yellow hair that the moonlight deepened into gold, and the fire-opal clasp rising and falling with her breath, like an imprisoned flame. He touched her hand, still warm and soft, with his own, which was icy.
She had even the high honour to be cousin to Lord Snigsworth so many times removed that the noble Earl would have had no compunction in removing her one time more and dropping her clean outside the cousinly pale; but cousin for all that.
"No one can tell what will happen to her. I shouldn't have thought it of Mr. Theodore. The women, of course, are not overweighted with common sense, and the poor child has no mother." "Oh, dear," sighed Hanny, "all the little girls are dropping out; and we used to have such nice times. I do wonder if Daisy means ever to come back.
I have not only seen those patents, but I have seen the man." "Very interesting," agreed Breitmann, brushing the crumbs into his hand and dropping them on his plate. "But, go on." "What a man!" breathed Fitzgerald, who began to see the drift of things. "I proceed, then. Two generations passed. I doubt if the third generation of this family has ever heard of the affair.
It took not a second for me to see and hear and know all this, for the vision came and was gone in the dropping of an eyelid. And then there echoed through the alley loud cries of "Police! Murder! Help!" I was conscious that there was a man running through the hall and down the rickety stairs, making the building ring to the same cries.
There are two theatres in Boston, of good size and construction, but sadly in want of patronage. The few ladies who resort to them, sit, as of right, in the front rows of the boxes. The bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke, and lounge about, all the evening: dropping in and out as the humour takes them.
"Why?" inquired Tembarom, taking his tobacco-pouch out of his pocket and preparing to fill another pipe. "You're most kind, sir, but but " in impassioned embarrassment "I should really PREFER to stand, sir, if you don't mind. I should feel more more at 'ome, sir," he added, dropping an h in his agitation. "Well, if you'd like it better, that's all right," yielded Mr.
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