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We gave the rigid woman good-morning, but she did not heed or reply; we made some inquiries as to paths, but she ignored us; we bade her good-day, and she scowled at us: she only spun.

"Show him in!" he snapped, and swept the paper from the desk and into a drawer.... "Good-morning, sir!" as Marston bowed on the threshold; then, without any preliminaries: "What success?" "I have the French code-book," Marston replied. "With you?" Marston drew out the slender book. "It embraces all their codes, I believe," he remarked.

No; it falls to prepare. You must continue to let it fall, and finally it will remain, and lodge itself in the minds of your people. There, now, I have given you one of the treasures of the snow. But here's old Moses. Good-morning, Mr. Fletcher; busy as usual? 'Yi, doctor, aw'm findin' these clamming fowk a bit o' brass. 'How's that, Moses? asked the minister.

"Oh, good-morning, Mr. Brudenell!" exclaimed the young man, turning with a glad smile to meet the elder one. Mr. Brudenell took the arm of Ishmael, and, leaning rather heavily on it, joined him in his walk. "I know why Judge Merlin and yourself are going to England," he said. "I thought you did.

Each of them had his passport and his luggage with him; they even brought presents for me, and for you, and for all the people in the town. "Who were they? what did they want? and what did they bring with them?" "Good-morning," they cried to the sentry at the town-gate. "Good-morning," replied the sentry; for the clock had struck twelve.

The front quad was obviously no place for me, but before I had made up my mind where I would go the Warden came out of his house and saw me before I saw him. "Good-morning, Mr. Marten," he said before I could escape; "it is so unusual to find a beautiful quadrangle totally uninhabited that you seem to be undecided whether to leave it or not.

"Often lately," continued the former, "when I happened to meet him going in or out, I fancied that his keen old eyes darted a penetrating glance at me; and the fear that they would detect the poverty we were trying to hide so irritated me that sometimes I even pretended not to hear his gruff 'Good-morning!" "Well, he's a right jolly fellow!" cried Bernard, enthusiastically, His mother smiled.

"Good-morning, Uncle Pete," he said, in hearty greeting, when he saw who it was that sought admittance. "Good-morning, Henry and what are you doing in there?" returned the workman, who had known the man from his boyhood. The other grinned. "Oh, I'm one of the guards at this institution now." Pete looked at him blankly. "Guards? What are you guarding, Henry?"

THE CAT: "Don't you mind speaking, if you really want anything, you know." I I am afraid I've made a mistake. I thought I knew you. Sorry I disturbed you." THE CAT: "Not at all quite a pleasure. Sure you don't want anything, now?" Good morning." THE CAT: "Good-morning."

"Good-morning! Don't happen to have any potato peelings in here? No, I see you haven't; good-bye." Next there is a cackle, and you see the neck of an old hen stretched round the corner. "Fine morning, isn't it? You don't mind my bringing this worm of mine in here, do you? It is so difficult in this house to find a room where one can enjoy one's food with any quietness.