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No mortal knows it but myself, and I see it coming upon me with slow, but unconquerable power. Oh, God dreadful Spirit spare me!" Again they were silent, and again Marston resumed "Doctor Danvers, don't mistake me," he said, turning sharply, and fixing his eyes with a strange expression upon his companion.
Now for the Colonel. I clattered off down the street to his temporary orderly room. Thank heaven, he was in! I explained the case to him. He said he would do his best, and there and then sent off a wire. I could do no more now, so after fixing up that a message should be sent me, I slowly retraced my steps to the school, extracted the horse, and wended my way slowly back to the Transport Farm.
'Because he thinks a great deal of you, and it would be nice if you got to like him. 'But I shan't, never; I know I shan't. 'Why not, dear? 'I don't dislike him, but he mustn't get to think it's any thing else. I'll go out with him if you'll go as well, she added, fixing her eyes on Lydia's. The latter bent to pick up a reel of cotton. 'We'll see when to-morrow comes, she said.
"Alas!" cried Mary, falling on a seat and leaning both arms an the vessel's stern, "what a sad omen for such a sad voyage!" Then, once more fixing on the receding harbour her eyes, dried for a moment by terror, and beginning to moisten anew, "Adieu, France!" she murmured, "adieu, France!" and for five hours she remained thus, weeping and murmuring, "Adieu, France! adieu, France!"
Poor Miss Ann was forced to arrive in a dress most unsuited to traveling, and is now quite oh quite destitute." Nora held her head with both hands, speechless. "Didn't you tell me, Nora, that your cousin's wife was very clever at sewing at fixing things over?" "Yes, yes, Miss Kate yes'm." "I wonder, Nora, would she come and help us?" "She would be that glad, Miss Kate. She "
Will you have it taken to her? 'Certainly, said Miss Grizel, compressing her lips. Gerald sat down and wrote, quickly, yet carefully, pausing between the sentences and fixing the same unseeing gaze on the garden.
Wright cooked our breakfast and called us in at six. I remember we were fixing the fence around his pasture lot that day when a handsomely dressed gentleman came back in the field. Mr. Wright was chopping at a small spruce. "Is Senator Wright here?" the stranger inquired of me. I pointed to the chopper.
And, fixing her nightcap, she had sighed and said, "I can't close my eyes for dreaming that the poor lad has come to his end untimeously." Cæsar yawned, and asked, "What lad?" "Young Pete, of course," said Grannie. Cæsar umpht and grunted. "We were poor ourselves when we began, father." Grannie felt the glare of the old man's eye on her in the darkness. "'Deed, we were; but people forget things.
A few minutes later another neighbor happened by and saw the man toss a shovel full of gravel down the other part of the road. "I see you are fixing only the part of the road you use, and not the part others must use," sneered the second neighbor. The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.
"He's fixing for dip. all right," he added; "I'll have Bags in to overhaul him when he comes back." Then, with the satisfaction of a medical student who has correctly diagnosed and prescribed for a case, he settled himself comfortably in the easy-chair and went to work.
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