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"You are not fit for it. Are you quite mad, I wonder?" "It had to be done," said Olga. "I must finish now really I must finish." She took his hand from her head and slowly raised it. Instantly that agonizing pain shot through her temples again. She barely suppressed a cry. "What is it?" he said. "My head!" she gasped. "And oh, Max, I do feel so sick." He stood up. "Come along!" he said.
"Shut up!" he cried, in a hoarse whisper. "You'll have the whole story all over the village." But the mischief was done. Everybody present was on their feet agog with excitement, and came gathering round to see the only possible finish to the scene, as they understood it. But, quick as lightning, Peter took in the situation.
"Go and look for the betel-nut which I must finish before I marry you. Search carefully and you may find it soon." Poor Mr. Owl searched carefully, but he could not find the bit of betel-nut. Of course he could not find it, when it had changed and flown away as a beautiful, many-colored bird! All that night he sought, till the sun sent him blinking to his tree.
She had not looked for apathy, but she did not know all of Cynthia's troubles. She wondered whether she had misjudged the girl, and was misled by her attitude. "Cynthia," she said, with a briskness meant to hide emotion for Miss Lucretia had emotions, "I am a lonely old woman, getting too old, indeed, to finish the task of my life. I went to see Mrs.
"Oh, really! do you think that is " But he had not time to finish before the clack of bagatelle balls ceased, and the voice of the little deep-eyed man was heard saying: "Anybody who wants a book will put his name down. There will be the usual prayer-meeting on Wednesday next. Will you all go quietly? I am going to turn the lights out." One gas-jet vanished, and the remaining jet flared suddenly.
And if Murray was behind them, as all the circumstances seemed to indicate, he would hire the most expensive lawyers in the country and fight the case to a finish. No, if anything was to be done they must find out some other way, or they would be playing right into his hands.
In another minute you will not feel the same. Come, Master Carrbroke, let us both finish dressing our patient and get him to his breakfast." "Oh, I couldn't have believed it," cried Denis, five minutes later. "Master Carrbroke " "Ned," said the young man correctively. "Ned always to my friends."
The hand with which he stroked his small moustache was finely-finished too, but sinewy and not effeminate. She had always associated finish and refinement entirely with her own sex, but she began to think they might be even more agreeable in a man.
"While you have been praying and fasting? Wondering what you were at, and waiting for you to finish. Waiting," she said, and clasped her knees with her intent look again, swaying a little to and fro in her content, as if that which she waited for had already come, full and very desirable. "Have you been reading ?" "Oh, I have been reading nothing?
The crowd had long dispersed; it was growing chilly, and after a glance at the crucified men, Ben-Tovit took Samuel by the arm and carefully turned him in the direction toward his house. He felt that he was particularly eloquent just then, and he was eager to finish the story of his toothache.
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