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They had been walking slowly forward, and Keyork again stopped, rapping the pavement with his iron-shod stick, and looking up from under his bushy, overhanging eyebrows. "Of two things, one will happen," he answered.
One is likely to lose one's temper any time. It might easily happen to me and drive me to make a fool of myself, like like " His voice trailed off into a silence of embarrassment. "Like Fitzhugh Carroll. Why not say it? Well, I much prefer him and his hot-headedness to you and your careful wisdom." "Of course," he acquiesced patiently. "Any girl would. It's the romantic temperament."
At each new roll of the ship, they closed their eyes as if resigned to the worst that might happen and their immediate neighbours furtively eyed each of their movements as if apprehensive of what any moment might bring forth.
Russ looked back at the girls who, in one corner of the cave, were pacing up and down to drive away the deadly cold. "Not very well," he returned, in a low voice. "Don't talk let's work." He did not like to think of what might happen. Desperately they labored, eating their way into the heart of the ice.
"I should think something dreadful would happen to me. I have heard it whispered that the door opened into the future. It would be dreadful to be all alone in the future, without one's kins-folk." "There may not be any Indians or catamounts there," ventured Letitia. "There might be something a great deal worse," returned her great-great-grandmother severely.
It matters less that for so long I should have lost sight of him. The years during which he was struggling to acquire proficiency in a difficult art were monotonous, and I do not know that there was anything significant in the shifts to which he was put to earn enough money to keep him. An account of them would be an account of the things he had seen happen to other people.
He would like to carry it away, but he cannot; he would like to leave it, but he dares not. The king will not dare to recall me, for no one else would serve him as faithfully as I do; he regrets not having me near him, from being aware that no one would be of so much service near his person as myself. But it will happen as it may please God."
"It is a miserable thing," he was thinking, "for a man in my rank of life to have a female statue trotting after him like a great dorg. I'm d d if I put up with it! Suppose we happen on somebody as knows me!"
And how did it happen that Crailey Gray knew that it was Miss Carewe's habit to stroll in her garden for half an hour or so, each evening before retiring, and that she went to mass every morning soon after sunrise? Crailey Gray never rose at, or near, sunrise in his life, though he sometimes beheld it, from another point of view, as the end of the evening.
Mallet, pray go on; I am very curious to hear what did happen last night." "It makes the cold chills run over me to think of it.
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