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It was as needful for him to encounter such in his winnowing processes as it is for the harrow to encounter stones in preparing the cultivated field. Moving quietly but swiftly round by the route before mentioned Mr Sharp came suddenly on the night-watchman. "Good-evening, Jim." "Evenin', sir." "Keep your eyes open to-night, Jim.
Lois came running up the verandah steps with Stafford close behind her. Her eyes were full of laughter and sunshine, and in her hand she held a mass of roses which Stafford had gathered during their ramble. "Good-evening, Mr. Travers," she exclaimed with pleased surprise, as he rose to greet her. "I did not expect to find you here. How grave you all look! And what lovely flowers!"
Day rose from his seat to welcome the neighbor, he said firmly: "Thank you, Delia. We shall not need you in here at present. You may go." The giantess tossed her head and lumbered out of the room, slamming the door behind her with unnecessary violence. "Good-evening, Miss Peckham," said the man, offering the spinster a chair.
I am enormously busy." "So is he. I doubt if you could expect him to " "H'm. Very well. I am obliged to you for your suggestion. Of course I shall take no step in the matter until I hear from you." "Good-evening," said the agent, icily. He bowed slightly in answer to the salute, uttering no further word; for him the interview ended right there, cleanly and satisfactorily.
His enemy was hanging above him panting out of wide nostrils, like a hunter's horse above the long-tongued quarry, when Vittoria came to them. She reached her strength to the wounded man to turn his face to heaven. He moaned, 'Finish me'; and, as he lay with his back to earth, 'Good-evening to the old army!
Then he said a few words to his brave but anxious wife, and walked to the rear platform. On it were several armed men, who bade him good-evening, and asked "when the fun was going to begin." Walking through the train, he found each platform similarly occupied, and Foster going from one to the other.
If not, I will return and tell you." He set out, and, arriving at the house of the lady, he saw some people, and said "Good-evening" to them. "Come dine with us," they said to him. "I have but just now eaten and am not hungry." He pretended to amuse himself with them to shorten the night, in reality to put to sleep their vigilance. These people went away to amuse themselves while he met the lady.
Corinne turned the knob, looked in, said "Good-evening!" brightly, and then stood aside for Nancy to pass her. "Another newcomer, Madame Nancy Nelson." "Come in, too, Corinne," said the pleasant voice. Nancy passed through and saw the owner of the voice. She was a little lady a veritable doll-like person.
Two men standing on the porch nodded a good-evening to him. Gordon, about to pass, glanced at them again. They were Northrup and Trelawney, two of the miners who had had trouble with Macdonald on the boat. On impulse he stopped. "Found work yet?" he asked. "Found a job and lost it again," Northrup answered sullenly. "Too bad." "Macdonald passed the word along that we weren't to get work.
You have done a bad deed; you have made it your pleasure to cause pain to an old man who never did you any harm; and you have done this treacherously, like a coward, while feigning politeness and bidding him good-evening. You are a liar, a miscreant; you have robbed me of my only society, my only riches; you have taken delight in evil. God preserve you from living if you are going on in this way."
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