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Backed by Gordon Hart, he had become a lumber dealer and bought and sold lumber under the firm name of Peeler and Hart. Almost every day cars of lumber were unloaded and stacked under sheds in the yard back of his office. He was no longer satisfied with his income as a workman but, under the influence of Gordon Hart, demanded also a swinging profit on the building materials.
Dixie Hart was right; I wasn't toting fair with you, and I want to tell you to-night, Alfred, that I see my error, and and I am plumb sorry." He turned upon her resolutely. She was looking down, and he fancied she was about to shed such tears as she had often shed early in their married life when Dick Wrinkle's name was mentioned.
When she did not seem to see him at all, the smile of a secret shared joyously with her died from his own eyes, and when he had dried his hands upon his handkerchief he cast aside his inward shyness in the presence of the Hart boys and Miss Georgie and Baumberger, and went boldly over to her. "Aren't you feeling well?" he asked, with tender proprietorship in his tone.
'Why, doubtful, my dear Sir; rather doubtful as yet, replied the little man. 'Fizkin's people have got three-and-thirty voters in the lock-up coach-house at the White Hart. 'In the coach-house! said Mr. Pickwick, considerably astonished by this second stroke of policy. 'They keep 'em locked up there till they want 'em, resumed the little man.
'That's to say, if one were easy in one's mind. 'Ay, ay, my man. That's it everywhere. Why, I don't think that I could enjoy myself not even at th' White Hart, where they give you as good a glass of ale for twopence as anywhere i' th' four kingdoms I couldn't, to say, flavour my ale even there, if my old woman lay a-dying; which is a sign as it's the heart, and not the ale, as makes the drink.
But even that presence had not stopped his saying: "The doctor promises I may ride Hart's single-footer in a day or two, Miss Angela, and then " And now it was a "single-footer" coming, the only one at Sandy. Of course it might be Hart, not Blakely, and yet Blakely had seen her as she rode away.
But and Perceval had borne his shield that was there within, of sinople with a white hart, Lancelot would have known him well, nor would there have been any quarrel between them, for he had heard tell of this shield at the court of King Arthur.
Leaving the baggage to follow, we rode ahead over the fertile fields. The wheat and poppies were glistening with dew, birds sang among the fig-trees, a cool breeze came down from the hollows of the hills, and my blood leaped as nimbly and joyously as a young hart on the mountains of Bether.
In spite of the tremendous fire, some of the soldiers tried to make their way along it, but were recalled; for they were deprived of the support of the artillery that should have covered their passage, had no hope of Hart bringing his brigade round to clear the enemy out from the kloofs on the opposite side, and but little of aid from Lyttleton, who had been obliged to move farther to the left to lend assistance to Hart.
These experiments are cited in some recent books on hypnotism, apparently with faith. The following counter experiments will therefore be read with interest. Dr. Hart gives a full account of his investigations in the Nineteenth Century. Dr. Luys gave Dr.
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