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"She threw up her head and looked me square in the eyes you know that straight, frank gaze she has frowned a little and said, 'Yes, I did it. I thought your doorway was the rightful place for that corpse to be found in. "Well, the joke of it and the pluck of her just struck me right where I lived, and I fairly roared. 'Put it there, Mrs.
He may behold three individuals in light shooting coats and cloth caps, standing upon the bank before their picturesque and half-ruinous house, their dogs at their side, and their gaze fixed upon the river that rolled beneath them.
There was also a book in her lap, but she made no effort to read it; it was so much easier just to gaze out of the window and let her mind wander where it would. Henry knocked and entered. "Well, this is very nice. Do you really feel a lot better?" "Ever so much, thank you. I think probably I'll get up in a day or two." "I suppose you'll want your tonsils out now, won't you?"
Paul was no deceiver, and it is equally impossible for him to have been deceived." And the blessedness "to meet the Lord in the air"! We shall see Him then as He is and gaze for the first time upon the face of the Beloved, that face of glory, which was once marred and smitten on account of our sins. And seeing Him as He is we shall be like Him. How long will be the meeting in the air?
She paused as they knelt before the rood. At length they rose, and approached the arbour wherein she sat. "Sister," said the foremost one, "hast thou met Him of Nazareth? for I know He has been seeking thee!" What was it which made her gaze upon the speaker with such surprise?
"They don't really mean to be rude," she explained; "they're only children." Then, detecting the glimmering smile in Selwyn's eyes, "But perhaps you wouldn't mind telling us who you are because we all would like to know, but we are not going to be ill-bred enough to ask." Their direct expectant gaze slightly embarrassed him; he laughed a little, but there was no response from them.
They groped their way to the stable and went in. There were some animals standing at the manger, but evidently not their horses. What could they be? Had the rogues been trying to cheat them, by putting these strange nondescripts into their place? They led them forth into the gray of the morning, and then such a trio as met their gaze!
Even Deborah could not tell, and was forced to sit quiet in her corner, waiting for the parting of the group which hid the judge from her sight. It happened suddenly and showed her the same figure she had seen once before a man with faculties suspended, but not impaired, facing them all with open gaze but absolutely dead for the moment to his own condition and to the world about.
But with a strange choked cry Benjamin broke from him, and running across the room he flung himself upon his knees by the side of a bed, crying in a lamentable voice: "Reuben Reuben Reuben!" It was Joseph's turn now to gaze in horror and dismay.
He smiled wanly at her, and at Wade, and then his gaze lifted to Belllounds. "I guess he licked me," he said, in weak voice. "He kept kicking my sore foot till I fainted. But he licked me all right." "Wils, mebbe he did lick you," replied the old rancher, brokenly, "but I reckon he's damn little to be proud of lickin' a crippled man thet way." "Boss, Jack'd been drinking," said Moore, weakly.
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