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"It will be harder than ever to get him to own up to what he did over at the Bullfinches'," thought Jerry. Andy knew the way to school and usually Jerry walked to school with boys his own age while Andy poked along alone or with one of his fellow kindergartners. But today when Andy had kissed his mother good-by and had come out the back door, Jerry was waiting for him. "I've got to hurry.
The pack ice was new to all the ship's officers except myself, but they soon got into the way of conning and working through open water leads and, as time went on, distinguished the thinner ice from the harder and more dangerous stuff.
The victorious army, animated by the memory of the countless cruelties that had been practiced on the border, pushed harder and harder. The Iroquois were driven back along the Chemung. It seemed that they might be hemmed in against the river, but in their flight they came to a ford. Uttering their cry of despair, "Oonali!
The boy had been harder hit than seemed the case at first, said the fellows of the teenth; but the wise young surgeon of the "Second Reserve" and a grave-faced colonel of infantry could have told of causes little dreamed of in the regiment were either given to telling the half of what he knew. That something most unusual had occurred in the room of Mr.
"Bob Montague is going to give you a hard pull to-morrow, Don John," said Rodman, as they got into the tender. "I hope he will do his best; and the harder the pull, the better," replied Donald. "If we only beat him," suggested Rodman. "I expect to beat him; but I may be mistaken." "Bob hauled up the Skylark on the beach this afternoon, and rubbed her bottom with black lead."
Let's go and shoot him." "That will, probably, be a harder job than you anticipate," said Frank. "However, we will try." After shutting the dogs up in the shop, the boys ran into the house, drew on their rubber coats, and started through the orchard, loading their guns as they went putting an extra charge of powder and a couple of buck-shot into each barrel.
She escaped, and walked home to her boarding-house with rather a languid pace, and climbed to her little room on the fifth story, and lay down on her bed. It was harder work than teaching, and her back ached, and her heart was heavy with the thought of five years in the Synthesis, when she barely had money enough for one winter.
But it involves the theory that it is the duty of the working man when he has done his day's work to devote his evenings to more work of a harder kind. There is a kind of hypocrisy in this feeling. Why should the working man be fired with that ardour for knowledge which is not expected of ourselves?
"Oh! beautiful, and rare as beautiful," was that affection; in the parent no earthlier or harder sternness in authority, nor weakness in doting, nor caprice in love; in the child no fear debasing reverence, yet no familiarity diminishing respect.
In the following days, Oliver stayed away from Suzanne as much as possible. The few times that they were by themselves were uncomfortable, but at least they could show the hurt they felt, even if they didn't talk about it. Passing in the hallway was harder.
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