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The messenger from the hospital had declared that the young man was in no danger and that none of his bones were broken, but that he was terribly bruised about the face, that his eyes were in a frightful condition, sundry of his teeth knocked out, and his lips cut open. But, the messenger had gone on to say, the house surgeon had seen no reason why the young gentleman should not be taken home.
"That just goes to show my theory is right," declared the grocer, when he had been given the particulars of his ward's arrest. "If Bob had gone about his business and delivered the order, instead of being tempted by the offer of a dollar, he wouldn't have got into this trouble. It will be a good lesson for him, and I shall be able to get along some way, I suppose, until he comes back."
She looked almost sullen now, but Vassie, heedless of her, jumped up and, pirouetting round to show herself off once more and to give herself that feeling of mental poise for which physical well-being is needful, made for the door. A swish, a flutter, a bang, and she was gone.
"Send us," wrote another general, "ten thousand men and one copy of La Marseillaise, and I will answer for victory." A hundred years and more have passed since then, but the tune has not gone stale.
As it fell out, they had not gone far before they came upon a little crowd, chiefly of boys, who ought to have been in bed long before, gathered about a man and woman. The man was forcing his company on a woman who was evidently annoyed that she could not get rid of him. "Is he your husband?" asked Miss Clare, making her way through the crowd. "No, miss," the woman answered.
A man stood up in it with his hand stretched out in a strange way, and I heard a yell. Then the boat was gone, and past us drifted oars and crushed planking, and a helm floating like an upturned bowl. She had been run down. Close by the bows of our boat a head came to the surface, and the face was turned to us.
How about the blatant person who had declared HE could have gotten the appropriation? What had the "committee" done? Nothing! nothing at all! He had not even written to the Capital so far as anyone could find out much less gone there. So, at Simmons's and the sewing circle, and after meeting on Sunday, Cy Whittaker was again discussed and derided.
The face was almost within touching distance; as it vanished Cleggett heard the sharp, whistling intake of the fellow's breath and then a click that told him the other's last cartridge was gone. Cleggett clubbed his pistol and leaped forward, striking at the place where the gleaming teeth had been. His blow missed; he spun around with the force of it.
Hitherto the movement toward peace has not gone beyond this conception of it, as a collusive safeguarding of national discrepancies by force of arms. Such a peace is necessarily precarious, partly because armed force is useful for breaking the peace, partly because the national discrepancies, by which these current peace-makers set such store, are a constant source of embroilment.
He couldn't tell the difference between a writ and a hole in the ground." "Men, you have gone fur enough," said Curtis. "This man is all right. Bring the other men here and put 'em on their horses an' I'll escort 'em out o' the town." They brought Latour on a rail amidst roars of laughter.
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