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You know the old saw about a rolling stone?" "Indeed I do. It gathers no moss. Neither does it collect burrs in gray whiskers and hayseed in long hair. I tell you," she half-whispered, leaning towards him confidentially, "Let's you and I kidnap Jane and Ursula and emigrate to 'Dixie Land, the land of cotton, where fun and life are easily gotten. Are you with me?" she audaciously challenged.
"Oh! as to that," said Brother Solomon, "we're not much. We do the best we can." "Horticultural medals, gold and bronze," said Old Brownsmith, smiling. "There! you'll have to do so as well, Grant, my lad you will have to do me credit." I crept close to him and half-whispered: "But must I go, sir?"
They were sweeping him up and down as if she were seeing the slim figure of Lanstron in contrast to Westerling's sturdiness; as if she were measuring the might of the five millions behind him and the three millions behind Lanstron. She let go a half-whispered "Yes!" which seemed to reflect the conclusion gained from the power of his presence.
"This is the picture I have loved to draw," half-whispered Ludlow, "when gales and storms have kept me on the deck, throughout many a dreary and tempestuous night! When body and mind have been impatient of fatigue, this is the repose I have most coveted, and for which I have even dared to hope!"
Crispin caught not his answer, but his half-whispered words were earnest and pleading. Cromwell shook his head. "I cannot sanction it. Let it satisfy you that he dies. I condole with you in your bereavement, but it is the fortune of war. Let the thought that your son died in a godly cause be of comfort to you.
This was the more obvious, from the fact, that, from time to time, mysterious and half-whispered enquiries were made, in reference to one particular individual, whose state of health or mind seemed at the moment to engross no ordinary share of the attention of the numerous guests that filled the bar or office, for the apartment was used as both.
"That hath he!" half-whispered Faith; "and sure am I, that we maidens will not forget his readiness to lose the sweets of sleep, in order that the feeble may not come to harm." "Speak not of the trifle," hurriedly returned the other.
Noel Jaynes, and the Barry brothers, and some others, and I, pressing close, and there was a half-whispered conference between Major Beverly and the leader of the horse. Then Major Beverly turned to us.
It was only a fleeting glance that Silas Trimmer cast at the familiar scene outside, and almost immediately he turned to Bobby, clutching his coat sleeve eagerly. "You you said something about business," he half-whispered, and over his face there came a shadow of that old, shrewd look. "Why, yes," replied Bobby uncomfortably. "I think we can find a place for you, Mr. Trimmer.
"As soon as they unlock my door, I'll come an' let ye out in the mornin'," Tunk whispered. "Are they going to lock me in?" "Wouldn't wonder," said Tunk, soberly. "What can ye 'spect from a couple o' dummed ol' maids like them?" There was a note of long suffering in his half-whispered tone, "Good night, mister," said he, with a look of dejection.
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