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I can give you no better example of Peter's extensive knowledge of what was right and wrong in the ceremonial side of life than by telling you that when he felt an irrepressible sneeze forming he trotted out of the room and sneezed outside. When Peter played, too, he played gently, and did not disturb his elders by obtrusive attentions. He never required to be told twice to do a thing.
'Look 'ere! she cried, 'my only basin; and what the powers am I to make the beefsteak and kidney pudding in that your ma ordered for your dinners? You don't deserve no dinners, so yer don't. 'I'm awfully sorry, cook, said Anthea gently; 'it was my fault, and I forgot to tell you about it. It got broken when we were telling our fortunes with melted lead, you know, and I meant to tell you.
You know how you'd hate to find a lot of dead women and babies because we got there too late to save them! Make a pace, Johnny boy!" The First Sergeant was talking gently, leaning over his pommel. But John G. was listening more from politeness than because he needed a lift. His stride was as steady as a clock.
Harrison sniffed ever so faintly, and said: "Of course, I've had experience of handwriting experts not very much, thank goodness! and you differ among yourselves so. It's any odds that another expert will find those pauses in quite different places from you, or even no pauses at all." Mr. Flexen laughed gently and said: "Perhaps. But he ought not to." "There you are.
"So because you won't pray and can't bear it any longer, you run away from him, and come to me!" the other remarked with a sorry smile, pouring out a glass of wine from a decanter that stood on the table. "Drink this," he said presently, pushing her down gently into a chair with one hand and holding the glass to her lips. "Drink it every drop.
"What will you have?" At these words, the dying man, for he was dying, extended his other hand to Mr. Mordecai, and clasping his, said: "Yes, marster-I want-somethin'. I-want-you-and-Mr. Mordecai-to-listen-to me; listen-to-me-a-moment. I-have- something-to-to-tell-you." "Certainly we will," they replied gently, observing with pain the difficulty of the dying man's utterance.
I must find a home either here in the village or at Agworth. He looked at her with compassion, with remorse. 'And you, my boy? asked his mother, raising her eyes gently. 'I? Oh, the selfish never come to harm, be sure! Only the gentle and helpless have to suffer; that is the plan of the world's ruling. 'The world is not ruled by one who thinks our thoughts, Hubert.
"But this is something to feel," said Ezra coaxingly, putting his arm about Naomi and leading her gently toward the stairway. "Tell me, dost thou remember when young Deborah, the vine-dresser's wife, laid something soft and warm in thine arms?" "A baby, Ezra?" asked Naomi, stopping short. "A baby at the inn stable?" "Aye," said Ezra firmly, "a Baby!
"And so you fainted before we fell?" he asked, compelled to reassure himself. "Did you fall?" she said, trembling again and laying her hand upon his arm. "There, there," he answered gently; "I ought not to have asked you. We must never allude to it again. We must forget it. Will you try?" "Yes, I will try, but it is hard. It belongs to the past, and we must live in the present and in the future.
One day, when he arrived with his head in the air, and as light at heart as a man who awaits a shower of gold, he found the SOUBRETTE under the gateway of the hotel; but this time the pretty Kitty was not contented with touching him as he passed, she took him gently by the hand.
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