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The snow would be very soft off the trail, and there would be the chance of breaking the shoe again. Who was he, to be turned out of his path by a bunch of wild curs? It was the snow-shoe that settled it. He set his jaws grimly, unslung his axe, and pressed forward.
It's really just because you're afraid o' bein' whipped an' put to bed an' goodness knows, you deserve it!" With this, Rebecca turned grimly and went into the garden to hang the sheets up for an airing. There was a moment's awkward pause, and then Phoebe broke the silence. "Our plan's this, Mr. Droop," she said, "an' I hope you'll agree.
'At the first glance, at the first word, she knew me. Then, quietly, 'My coat is on the chair beside you. "I took it up. 'What do you mean to do? I asked. "'It is New Year's Eve, he said grimly. 'The season of good wishes. It is only meet that I should wish my brother, who stole my wife, much happiness for the next twelve months. "He took the coat from my hands. "'You admire the coat?
He looked at Pethick, whom he knew to be the tale-bearer, and the latter exclaimed, excitedly: "Now don't you try to deny it, Hibbs. You know I heard you?" "Well, what did I say?" asked Hibbs, defiantly. "Well, what did you say?" interrupted Callum, grimly, transferring the conversation to himself. "That's just what I want to know."
It isn't a question of the raw material surely, and you have experience." "Not so much as you think," interposed Thorpe. "There remains," went on Wallace without attention to Thorpe's remark, "only the question of " "My honesty," interjected Thorpe grimly. "No!" cried the boy hotly, "of your letting me in on a good thing!" Thorpe considered a few moments in silence.
Glover that question," said Lydia grimly. She was beginning to chafe under the sense of restraint. She was being "school-marmed" she thought. No girl likes the ostentatious protection of the big brother or the head mistress.
As these men glanced around with fiery eyes the quick look of relief that shot across their faces told of ungrounded fears. "Where's Buell?" sharply queried Dick. Jim Williams did not reply, and a momentary silence ensued. "Buell lit out after the Greaser," said Bill, finally. "Cut and run, did he? That's his speed," grimly said Dick. "Here, Bent, find some rope. We've got to tie up these jacks."
"I wrote and told Sir James that we had only borrowed it, and I sent some money, and I shall send some more if we cannot find a way to get it back." "See if they don't call it stealing," said Bob grimly. "Look there at the her'ns."
Cora was not here to foil or trip her. Corinne and the junior played fair. Before the older girls reached the rounding stake, Nancy flashed past them. The junior spurted, came even with Nancy for a moment at and turn, and then dropped back, to become a bad third in the race. She could never recover after that spurt. But the French-Canadian girl held on grimly. Slowly she crept up on the freshman.
Nevertheless we have our case to plead, not only for going to India but with the Berlin papers still babbling of Bagdad and beyond of sticking there very grimly.
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