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The tale which the reader has just finished perusing is taken from scenes that actually occurred during the present war except, perhaps, that part which relates the tearing of the mother from the bedside of her dead child.
My captain and his young crew had finished the journey within the time agreed upon.
When A.B.A. has got so far as to read stories of the most simple kind, the least pleasing part of his intellectual education is finished. I might, perhaps, have added with truth, the most laborious part.
The bodies were found the next day and brought down. We did all that was possible. Shall I take you and madame to the grave?" But the guide had not finished. "He fell almost on top of Michel, and the two went spinning down the couloir out of sight.
When the scrutiny of the outside was finished, the wax was removed and the cover opened, and the lieutenant drew out a slip of ruled paper, evidently torn from a common note-book.
She sang it beautifully; it sounded like the very finest Italian opera-music. "Deary me," piped the Wise Woman, when she had finished, "how very grand these gentlemen are." Her Black Cat put up his back and spit. "Five times one Black Cat are five Black Cats," said the Wise Woman. And, directly, there were five Black Cats, spitting and miauling.
It was like enough that, in Dunbar, many might know the names of the principal traders in Edinburgh; and that, were he to give an unknown one, he might be questioned as to his place of business. The message, therefore, relieved him of this difficulty. After he had finished his supper, which was an excellent one, he beckoned to the landlord. "I am a stranger here, landlord," he said.
"Well, it was like this," said Miss Ingate with satisfaction. "It was a long time ago. I finished painting a dog-kennel because the house-painter's wife died and he had to go to her funeral, and the dog didn't like being kept waiting. That gave me the idea. I went into water-colours, but afterwards I went back to oils. Oils seemed more real.
In the Agriculturist there were new ways to farm easier, to make land bear more crops; so he divided that with the neighbours, also how to make gardens, and prune trees. Before he finished, he always managed to work in a lot about being honest, kind, and loving God. He and mother felt so good over Leon, and by this time they were beginning to see that they were mighty glad about the money too.
That's what I like. "But what he said after that I don't remember, only it made me feel as if I were having a bad dream, and I wanted to be far away. "When he had finished eating he did not stay long; he had to go and see some girls home from a prayer-meeting; and he asked how it was he never saw me walking out with any on Sunday afternoons.
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