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All we know is that, divided up between five or six of us, Buff costs not far short of six 'undred a year." At that moment a small blond man came into the bar. Esther knew him at once. It was Ginger. He had hardly changed at all a little sallower, a little dryer, a trifle less like a gentleman. "Won't you step round, sir, to the private bar?" said William. "You'll be more comfortable."
And with this larger and dryer piece of linen, she did manage to make her face more presentable. "When he's asleep, I'll slip in," she said. "Well, let's go and sit down somewhere," Maurice suggested. She agreed, and there was some haphazard wandering about in the darkness, then a weary sitting on a bench in the park, marking time till Batty would surely be asleep.
When landed for the night, the canoe is always taken out of the water as described. The bark is of a somewhat spongy nature; and if left in the water for a length of time, would become soaked and heavy, and would not run so well. When kept all night, bottom upward, it drips and becomes dryer and lighter.
The big man growled an assent and followed him over the summit into the valley beyond. "Country needs a rain bad," the man in the Chihuahua hat commented. "Don't know as I recollect a dryer season." The big hawk-nosed man by his side cackled in his throat with short, splenetic mirth. "It'll be some dryer before the rains," he prophesied. They climbed out of the valley to the rim.
Amherst," she began haughtily; but a glance from her husband reduced her to a heaving pink nonentity. "Hold on, Amherst. I hear you've been in to Hanaford. Did you go to the hospital?" "Ezra " his wife murmured: he looked through her. "Yes," said Amherst. Truscomb's face seemed to grow smaller and dryer. He transferred his look from his wife to his assistant. "All right.
When they returned from their trip, Mackay and A Hoa with the assistance of some of their Christian friends set about looking for a new house in a more wholesome district. It was much easier for the missionary to rent a place now, and he managed to secure a comfortable home upon the bluff above the town. It was a dryer situation and much more healthful.
He ran a dry tongue over dryer lips and gazed eagerly ahead in search of the first of the beaches. What was so important about this island that Thorvald had to make a landing here? The officer's stories of a native race which they might turn against the Throgs to their own advantage was thin, very thin indeed.
The girl began to feel that she had come far enough in what appeared to be a wild-goose chase. Then suddenly, quite amazingly, she was halted. She plunged around a sharp turn in the ravine, trying to step on the dryer places, and found herself confronted by a man standing under the shelter of a wide-armed spruce. "Oh!" gasped Ruth, starting back.
Brewer, of the Scientific School of New-Haven, who has experimented extensively on this subject, states that, while forty per cent of moisture is needed in air to make it healthful, most stoves and furnaces do not, by any contrivances, supply one half of this, or not twenty per cent. He says most furnace-heated air is dryer than is ever breathed in the hottest deserts of Sahara.
I was happy, infinitely so, despite the business worry. My physicians had advised my leaving Brooklyn for a dryer atmosphere. We had a lease of our house until the spring of 1876, but had decided that then we would try country life. Many hours were passed pleasantly in discussing the plan and its probable results.
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