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Fearing he might have some message for his daughter, whom he did not intend he should see, he started hastily towards him, to intercept him and turn him back before he reached his house. He met Mayall some distance from his house, and forbid his nearer approach.
The Quaker retorted by telling him that if he would prove the Quakers like the Papists in one thing, by the help of God, he would prove him like them in ten. After a brief and sharp dispute, the priest, finding his adversary's wit too keen for his comfort, hastily took his leave.
The Doctor held in his hand, on the point of a knife, the flower of a cactus very common in the mountains, which he presented her, warning her at the same time against its needle-like thorns. "It makes me sick," said Alice hastily, throwing it away. "It is the color of gold, which I want so much; and of the sunshine, which I hate so."
Wilt thou, my Lord Bishop of Hereford?" "Nay," quoth the Bishop hastily, "it ill befits one of my cloth to deal in such matters. Moreover, there are no such archers as His Majesty's in all the world; therefore I would but lose my money.
For an instant he battled with an impulse to put it all back, hastily, guiltily, and abandon this desperate plan of suicide for ever. But Miriam would smell the paraffine! "No way out this time, O' Man," said Mr. Polly; and he went slowly downstairs, matchbox in hand. He paused for five seconds, perhaps, to listen to noises in the yard of the Royal Fishbourne Hotel before he struck his match.
"No, I don't suppose it is her character; and then there were already two of her, so to speak, that child " "The only thing I dislike in her," he said hastily, "is that child. What good can a creature of that age do her? And it must be so bad for the boy." "I don't know about the good it can do her. You don't any of you understand," Mrs.
The courier looked in the direction pointed out, and as soon as he had done so, spoke to the driver, who, casting his eyes hastily in the direction, applied the lash to his horses, and set off with double speed. "Wolves, sir," replied the courier, who then pulled out his pistols, and commenced loading them.
Derrick drew himself up to a sitting position. There was an air of mastery about him as he raised a determined face to hers. "Averil," he said suddenly, "you aren't going to send me to the right-about again, are you?" "Oh, don't let us squabble on your first night!" said Averil hastily. "Squabble!" the boy exclaimed, springing to his feet vigorously. "Do you call that squabbling?"
"We may as well be on the right side," remarked the other, stepping hastily to the door. But just before reaching it, the latch flew up, and Jim Travers plunged in, falling on his hands and knees, the picture of terror itself. "Shut the door quick!" he gasped. "The tiger is coming; he's coming; he's right behind me."
The widow eyed her visitor sharply, but he was squirming over his unfortunate feet, and apparently suffering untold agonies on their account. 'The schoolmaster must be supported, missus, he said hastily. 'Discipline, you know. Boys have to be mastered. 'To be sure; but you men, you don't know how. My Dick is the best boy in the school, sometimes. 'Sometimes, ma'am, yes.
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