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There were two or three loungers on a settle, who gazed at them curiously. One of them at once appeared to recognize Abner Holden. "How dy do, Holden?" he said. "Who've you got with you?" "A boy I've taken," said Holden, shortly. "A pretty smart-looking boy. Where'd you pick him up?" "Over in Waverley. He's got some pretty high notions, but I guess I'll take 'em out of him in time."

'You 'ave got 'er insured, Mrs. Kemp? asked the midwife. She could bear the silence no longer. 'Trust me fur thet! replied the good lady. 'I've 'ad 'er insured ever since she was born. Why, only the other dy I was sayin' ter myself thet all thet money 'ad been wisted, but you see it wasn't; yer never know yer luck, you see! 'Quite right, Mrs.

I shall not try to 'factorise' the result represented by her state of mind from time to time; still less shall I employ a mathematical process to prove that the ratio of dx to dy is twice x, the change in Angela at any moment of her moral growth.

Four were mounted by servants, cloaked and armed; the other horse, black and spirited, was held by old Grandchamp it was his master's steed. "Ah!" exclaimed Bassompierre; "see, our battlehorses are saddled and bridled. Come, young man, we must say, with our old Marot: 'Adieu la cour, adieu les dames! Adieu les filles et les femmes! Adieu vous dy pour quelque temps; Adieu vos plaisans parse-temps!

An' Lou paid rent for both of us wiv that, an' 'ad brekfist; an' sure enough the lydy come next dy an' took her off. She's in the opery now, an' she'll 'ave 'er brekfist reg'lar. I seed the lydy meself. Her picture 's on the 'oardings " Suddenly he stopped. "W'y, that's 'er that's 'er!" he said, pointing to the mantel-piece. Stafford followed the finger and the glance.

Johnny Pym has got a goat he can hitch up. What was that, pa? What was that went 'OoOOoohm!" "Whoa, Nell, whoa there! Steady, gal, steaday! Ho, there! Ho! Whoa whoa-hup! Whad dy y' about? Fool horse. Whoa... whoa so, gal, soo-o. Lion, I guess, or a tagger, or sumpum or other." And talk about music. You thought the band was grand. You just wait. Don't you hear it down the street?

Only when it came to taking leave of Pulcheria and Mary, who clung to her in frantic grief and begged to go with her and Betta to prison, she could not restrain her tears. The scribe had informed her that she was charged dy Bishop Plotinus with having plotted the escape and flight of the nuns, and Joanna's knees trembled under her when Paula whispered in her ear: "Beware of Katharina!

As he lay there in horror and amid contempt, a voice arrested his ears near by, singing, with musical and easy spirit, so low that it seemed a hymn, from the roads and fields far down beneath: "Deep-en de woun' dy hands have made In dis weak, helpless soul."

We were then drilled in the art of addressing our expected visitors. The boys were required to bend the body forward with head down, and rest the body on the left foot, and scrape the right foot backward on the ground, while uttering the words, "how dy Massie and Missie." The girls were required to use the same words, accompanied with a courtesy.

And by prolonging the arc KQ till it meets AD at Y, the sum of the consequents is DY. Then KX ought to be to DY as 3 to 2. Whence it would appear that the curve KDE was of such a nature that having drawn from some point which had been assumed, such as K, the straight lines KA, KB, the excess by which AK surpasses AD should be to the excess of DB over KB, as 3 to 2.