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She had become greatly excited over these reflections, and, sweeping into a heap the laces and jewels which she had removed from her person, she began pacing the floor with swift, angry steps.
"Yes ah!" flashed back Wiley, "and if you think you're so danged smart I'll let you keep your old mine a few months." He started for the door again but Blount dragged him back and laid a metal box on the table. "Well, let's get down to business," he said with quick decision, and spread a heap of papers before his eyes.
I saw the other day another wonderful panorama photograph taken from an aeroplane showing Ypres as it now is, a vast heap of ruins, the Cloth Hall gutted; the Cathedral leveled, and the site of the little old museum a vast blackened hole in the earth where a shell had landed. The photograph, taken by an Englishman, was dated September, 1915.
"I b'lieve ye'd go through fire for her quicker 'n ye would for any yer own flesh an' blood." Angy went to her mother and kissed the fretful old face very kindly. "Mother, you can't say I hain't been a better daughter to you sence I've knowed Mis' Kinney." "No, I can't," grumbled the old woman, "that's a fact; but she's got a heap o' new fangled notions I don't believe in."
"Yes; he does need you," says I. "He's needed you for a long time. But you wouldn't like to see him now; he's changed a heap. He ain't got a friend left on earth except me, and that ends at midnight. He's had it pretty rough, when you come to think it all over," says I. "I must go in, Curly," says she. "No; you can't," says I. "I'm foreman and I won't let you.
In front, as far off as you could throw a stone, was the cavern's mouth, with the three smoke-wreaths oozing out of it. And what else did Bellerophon behold there? There seemed to be a heap of strange and terrible creatures curled up within the cavern.
It was a flimsy structure, the walls built of wattles plastered with mud, while the roof was of thatch; by the time, therefore, that I reached the house it was blazing furiously, and a quarter of an hour later was a mere heap of smouldering ashes.
His house was a heap of glowing ashes, and his goods were tossed for and distributed among a company. But his mark lay indelibly impressed upon the town. There were three European women and a child who were nowhere to be found; and there was a trail that led from somewhere near the palace to the western gate. It was a red trail.
No hunter was I then, but a man stricken by the spirit and mystery of life, by the agony and terror of death, by the awful strange sense that this stag would kill me. But Copple galloped up, and drawing his revolver, he shot the deer through the head. It fell in a heap. "Don't ever go close to a crippled deer," admonished my comrade, as he leaped off his horse.
"My law practice? Oh, you mean down at the county-seat? There is no law court here. How much did the boys pay me?" "Yes." "Two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents." "What?" "Oh, I know it's a heap of money; but I made it." "Enough for tobacco money!" "Sir," said Dan Anderson, "more. I ate frequent.
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