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The absolute confinement and the pitiless heats of summer were telling on the "puffic' fibbous ", reducing him to the merest shell of his old-time self, and yet the shell was by no means hollow. Within it still lurked the old magnetic Reed, plucky, indomitable.
Our way now lay through a region scarce passable, and full of serpents, which were continually creeping between our legs; we might have avoided them in the day, but being obliged, that we might avoid the excessive heats, to take long marches in the night, we were every moment treading upon them.
Though her mother and Daphne were so kind and tender, they could not take away her heart-ache. It was a weary day. She sat by the window and gazed upon the wheat-fields, brown and bare, for it was almost October, and the reapers had gathered the grain. Beyond the fields was the river, shrunk to a narrow bed by the heats of summer. Dead leaves were floating down the stream.
We'll race the length of the field and back. We'll do it three times, and the one who wins two times out of three will be it." To this all agreed. Appointing Professor Zepplin as starter, the Pony Riders lined up for the word. The first heat was run easily, none of the ponies being put to its utmost speed. Walter Perkins won the heat. The next two heats were different.
Amid the blasts of winter he will have the warmth of Calcutta in his home; and the health of the ocean and the breezes of the mountains shall fan his brow, amid the heats of summer, but there will be a coolness in his soul that no breath of summer can ever dispel; a fever in his spirit that no frozen confection can ever allay; he shall be rich in lands and houses, but fear of loss and a sense of poverty will poison the fountains of his life; and unless he repent, he shall go out into the eternities a pauper and a bankrupt.
And she shattered all my preconceptions about her. 'You are an old tenant of this house? I ventured. 'Yes, she said; 'it suits me. But the great heats are terrible here. 'You do not leave Paris, then? 'Never. Except to see my little boy. I started, envious of her, and also surprised.
On the 14th of July we passed the Equator, at which time the atmosphere was as serene, and the temperature of the air not hotter than in a bright summer day in England. From this period, until our arrival on the American coast, the heats, the calms, and the rains by which we had been so much incommoded, were succeeded by a series of weather as delightful as it was unlooked for.
"It is only an outside coldness," answered Arnold; "the applause heats me, excites me, till a moment when I grow to hate it.
Long enough has the priest, the missionary, laboured alone in the harvest field and borne the heats of the day; long enough have but a few loyal and generous souls shouldered the burden of the missionary work in Canada; long enough have our Catholics limited their zealous efforts to the confines of their parish or their diocese.
Ellis controls the betting so that it may be done in an orderly manner. I am sure I have nothing to do with it." "I'd like to bet a little, Charlie," Aggie put in with an eye on Tish. "I'd put all I win on the collection plate on Sunday." "Very well." Charlie Sands took out his notebook. "On what car and how much?" "Ten dollars on the Fein. It made the best time at the trial heats."
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