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He had the impulse to guard himself from new blows as a boy throws up his elbow to ward a buffet, and, although he could not ward with his elbow, for his heart was on his sleeve where he began to believe that Macauley had seen it he remembered that he could smile with as much intentional mechanism as any wornout rounder of afternoons.
"A woman is weak and defenceless," argue, apparently, a large class of Parisians, "therefore we will stare her out of countenance, we will mutter impudent speeches in her ear, we will elbow her off the sidewalk, we will thrust her aside if we want to enter a public conveyance.
Alice started up on one elbow, and was about to utter a scream of delight and surprise, when her sable friend laid her black paw suddenly on the child's pretty mouth, and effectually shut it up. "Hush! Alice; no cry. Savage hear and come back kill Poopy bery much quick. Listen. Me all alone. You bery clibber. Dry up eyes, no cry any more. Look happy. God will save you.
"What then? Then I remained there awhile and went home." At this point the assistant public prosecutor half rose from his seat, uncomfortably resting on one elbow. "Do you wish to question the prisoner?" asked the justiciary, and receiving an affirmative answer, motioned his assent.
His feet were bare, and as he buried them in the thick grass on which he lay, he sighed with pleasure. "Good morning," remarked someone in rather hoarse tones close at his elbow, and one of the quaint animals he had seen the night before shuffled awkwardly towards him with what was evidently intended for a pleasant smile.
Lifting my cane, I returned with a determination to kill the snake. I stooped down very low to ascertain the precise position of its head, which was concealed by a large mullen leaf I saw its eyes and its bill " "What!" exclaimed Joe, rising up on his elbow with unwonted vigour, and his eyes riveted on the speaker. "Yes, its bill", continued Boone.
Being by this time in possession of the luxury of a card, I sent one up, and was immediately admitted. I found breakfast still upon the table; Dalrymple sitting with an open desk and cash-box before him; and, standing somewhat back, with his elbow resting on the chimney-piece, a gentleman smoking a cigar.
Although by unalterable custom he submitted, at breakfast, the menus of the day to Hugh, the old butler came afterwards to Honora's boudoir during her struggle with the account books. Sometimes she would look up and surprise his eyes fixed upon her, and one day she found at her elbow a long list made out in a painstaking hand. "What's this, Starling?" she asked.
And you will find, my dear boy, that a little way below Elbow Rock there is another quiet stretch." When he spoke again there was a note of almost reverence in his voice. "Auntie Sue, was there ever a break in your life? Were your dreams and plans ever smashed into bits?" For a little, she did not answer; then she said, bravely: "Yes, Brian; several times.
Always one had been at his elbow "a familiar spirit out of the ground" whispering in his ear. He had been down in the abysses of life. He glanced again at the girl, and realised what she had done: she had saved his life.
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