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Don't you want to lie down?" said Fanny, sitting on the side of the bed in Polly's room, and chattering hard, while she examined everything her friend had on. "Not a bit.
"I examined the catalogue; and as, among the jewels mentioned, I could find none that answered the description of these diamonds, I knew that the clue was quite lost." "There is precisely where you are mistaken!" exclaimed old Tirauclair, exultantly.
And no one realized this more keenly than did her husband. He once told of a dream he had which illustrated the endurance of his wife. "I thought," said Field, "that I had died and gone to heaven. I had some difficulty in getting past St. Peter, who regarded me with doubt and suspicion, and examined my records closely, but finally permitted me to enter the pearly gates.
But the question is, whether they would thank you for it, since they have once made a step to the other side, though rather in a neck-breaking manner; for if examined closely, that so called life is a cursedly tedious and base affair, and if one is to expect jokes like these every day, such as have been practised on these fellows here, then really one must be damnably sunk in bad habits, not to put an end to this miserable existence by a single gash on the throat.
I have slept with one eye open ever since I came to Washington; I never close both, except when an office-seeker is looking for me. I then laid before the President the 'rebel mail. He carefully examined the address of each letter, making occasional remarks.
Conyngham examined the simple fare provided for him, and then looked towards his companion with that cheerfulness which is too rare in this world; for it is born of a great courage, and outward circumstances cannot affect it.
He also stared at Stanistreet, who looked horribly ill. Then he took up Molly's note and examined it without reading a word. It was crumpled, dirty, almost illegible, as if Louis had thrust it violently into his pocket, and carried it about with him for weeks. "If you really don't know what it means," said Stanistreet, "I'll tell you. It means that your wife had only one idea in her head.
I examined its pouch, but there was no young one within it. At length we caught a glimpse of a kangaroo hopping along at a distance, and we galloped off in full chase, but he was too far ahead for the dogs to make anything of it; so we lost him.
Inger worked at her loom and tended the animals; also, she was often to be heard singing hymns, but it was a pitiful singing; she was like a bell without a tongue. As soon as the roads were passable, she was sent for down to the village to be examined. Isak had to stay behind.
"This has got the trenches beat a mile," Archer said, somewhat encouraged by Tom's calmness and resourcefulness. Striking another match, Tom examined more carefully the area of planking just in the middle of the side where he knew the hasp must be. He determined the exact center as nearly as he could.
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