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Blodgett tries to burn up his rubbish, and then I can go," but she didn't speak a word to her mother, for then Mrs. Pepper would find out how dreadfully disappointed Polly had been at the thought of not seeing the grand spectacle. So she worked on busily, expecting every day to hear Ben say, "Now we're goin' to set it off to-day," for he was at work pretty steadily now, for Farmer Blodgett.
"Catiline!" he exclaimed, starting back in astonishment, and half expecting to feel a dagger in his bosom. "Tush! tush! young man—think you the walls in the house of Catiline have no ears, nor eyes? Paullus Arvina, I know all!" "All?" faltered the youth, now utterly aghast. "Ay, all!" replied the conspirator, with a harsh triumphant laugh.
She looked at him as he came in as she had never looked at him before, almost expecting to see some great and appalling change in his appearance. But no he seemed much as usual his face was indeed reddened a little by his brisk walk in the chill air, and his voice was as cheery as ever. Biddy gave a loud, most audible sigh of relief. Mr.
The children listened eagerly, clapping their hands now and then, and at the end of every story asking for more. But Eric was lost in wonder. The children thought the stories were not true, just fairy stories told them by a grandmother. And Nora had evidently long ago given up expecting them to believe. Her black eyes twinkled knowingly when they met Eric's puzzled ones.
"I understand you," said Hugh, nodding and smiling. "And now, Master Edward, I really have taken a strong liking to you; and, if you please to hearken to it, you shall have some of my best advice." "Speak," said the young man, expecting to be told in what direction to pursue the chase.
We weren't expecting her for another three or four hours." At the wharf lay a vessel of about 300 tons burden, with bluff, rounded bows sitting high up out of the water, a long, straight waist, and a bridge and cluster of deckhouses at the stern. "Our motor ship," Mr. Coburn explained with evident pride. "We had her specially designed for carrying the pit-props, and also for this river.
He was expecting every day, almost every hour, some decisive news with regard to the state of Gloria. His feelings were kept on tenter-hooks about it. He had made every preparation for a speedy descent on the shores of his Republic. But he did not feel that the time was yet quite ripe.
She had to meet and somehow to conquer the sickening sensation of revolt that had come upon her. She sat there for a long time, till the sun sank low in the sky and a wondrous purple glow spread across the veldt. She knew that it was growing late, that Burke would be expecting her for the evening meal, but she could not summon the strength she needed to end her solitary vigil on the kopje.
Pipa, expecting to be summoned to her mistress Pipa, wondering greatly indeed what Enrica can be about, and why she does not go to bed, when she, the blessed dear, was so faint and tired, and crying oh, so pitifully! when she left her Pipa, leaning against the door-post near the half-open door, dozing like a dog with one eye open in case she should be called listened and looked out into the passage.
The Duke begged him to inform his Majesty of the impatience with which he was expecting the arrival of his successor. He then informed his guest that they had already begun to collect the tenth penny in Brabant, the most obstinate of all the provinces. "What do you say to that, Don Francis?" he cried, with exultation.
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