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She drew her slight figure up to its full height, made her exit with all the dignity of an offended queen, entered the now deserted dressing-room, and seizing her books, hurried from the school, and was soon running rapidly down the busy street. "Hallo, Win! what's the row? One would think you had stolen the giant's seven-league boots," cried a voice from behind.
Tom went back to his tent, aroused Ferguson, and the two took turns in guarding the tent of Miles during the night. Tom did not wish to awaken him, for he needed rest on the eve of a long and fatiguing journey. "When Miles woke up in the morning he found Tom beside him. "Hallo, Tom!" he said, in some surprise. "This is an early call." "I have been here half the night," said Tom, quietly.
He was a small rancher, but it was not until the impatient horse plunged that Alton recognized the other, who moved aside, as the man he had thrown into the river. The rancher saw the glance that passed between them. "Hallo!" he said. "Then you two had trouble when you split? Now, Damer was telling me he'd got kind of tired of saw milling." Alton laughed. "That's quite likely," he said.
Tom Long ran back to his quarters, and doctor's assistant or no, he buckled on his sword, and stuck his revolver in its case, before putting on his grey great-coat; meeting the detachment on its way down to the boat. "Hallo, Long, what are you doing here?" said Captain Smithers. "You are not detailed for duty." "No," said the doctor, sharply, "he is coming on hospital service."
But no; there came around the corner a cart with a single horse, driven by a lad; and the lad, pulling up before the store, went in, and in less than a minute reappeared staggering under a heavy burden. "But, Hallo!" cried Mr. Gavel, pulling himself together, and striding towards the cart.
Friends waved their hands to him as if they were saying: "Hallo! you rascal, you have come into a fortune!" How small the passers-by looked, how smooth the street was, how pleasant their ride on springs and cushions! Life should always be like that. It went on for a whole month. Balls, visits, dinners, theatres. Sometimes, of course, they remained at home.
"Hallo, Gabrielle!" he cried cheerily, taking her hand, "what brings you over this morning, especially when we were told last night that you were so very ill?" "The illness has passed," exclaimed young Gellatly, shaking his friend's hand. "And we're now in search of a lost bracelet one of Lady Heyburn's." "Why, my mother was just going to wire!
It came of course immediately, and then the young man, who had at the same instant found his envelope and ejaculated "Hallo, this thing has a false back!" jumped up and secured his visitor, whom with his left arm he held in durance on his knee while with his free hand he addressed the missive to Mrs. Ryves.
"Hallo!" cried Jimmy, lying quite still to draw his breath, since the ditch was now perfectly dry, "this ditch seems to me to pint right for that tavern." He therefore crawled along its dry bed till it crossed under a road by a wooden culvert or little bridge of a few planks. The noise at the tavern was now like a fight, and, as Phoebus continued to crawl forward, he heard twenty voices, crying,
He was standing that night apart from the other boys, contemplating the proceedings of two combative sparrows which quarrelled over a crumb of bread on the pavement, and had just come to the conclusion that men and sparrows had some qualities in common, when he was attracted by a low whistle, and, looking up, beheld the Slogger peeping round a neighbouring corner. "Hallo!
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