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The bank had been robbed after midnight. To file open the grill and to blow up the safe must have taken several hours. Before morning the dogs of Holt had taken the trail. If their owner were with them, it was a safe bet that the sled carried forty thousand dollars in Alaska gold dust. So far the mind of the Scotchman followed the probabilities logically, but at this point it made a jump.
No, they have a notion that man and wife may continue to lead their individual lives. That isn't marriage. I've lived with Joshua Holt thirty-five years last April, and I haven't pleased myself in all that time." "All men," said Trixton Brent, "are not so fortunate as Mr. Holt." Honora began to have the sensations of a witness to a debate between Mephistopheles and the powers of heaven.
Pillichody, who had changed his attire since his escape from the grocer's dwelling, thought he might now venture to address him without fear of discovery, and, setting his arms a-kimbo, and assuming a swaggering demeanour, strutted forward and said, "Your daughter has just been wedded to Leonard Holt, Mr. Bloundel."
What rough crosses the little fingers had got to grasp holt of, and onbeknown to me my mind fell onto the follerin' poetry "Our crosses are made from different trees, But we all of us have our Calvaries; We may climb the mount from a different side, But we all go up to be crucified."
There was no dog there. Peter was about to speak; but Tom silenced him by a look, and shouted, "Here we are! Gone to holt in this alder root!" "Now then, little Carlingford! Out of the way, puppies!" cries Trebooze, righted again for the moment by the excitement, and thrusting the hounds right and left, he stoops down to put in the little terrier.
The notion of sending female attendants for Eustacie was also abandoned: her husband's presence rendered them unnecessary, or they might be procured at La Sablerie; and thus it happened that the only servants whom Berenger was to take with him were Humfrey Holt and John Smithers, the same honest fellows whose steadiness had so much conduced to his rescue at Paris.
Alternately through shade and through light rode they on; the bulls gazing on them from holt and glade, and the boom of the bittern sounding in its peculiar mournfulness of toile as it rose from the dank pools that glistened in the western sun.
He's come, ain't he?" "That's no reason why you should come. Get down, you young dog!" "Sha'n't!" "You give's holt o' that whip, and I'll flick him down like I would a fly." "No, no; don't hurt him, Ike," I said, laughing. "What were you making that noise for, Shock?" "He calls that singing," cried Ike, spitting on the ground in his disgust. "He calls that singing.
"Holt, were you ever in battle?" he counter queried. The man of law was a man of peace; he had seen lead, but in seals, not bullets. Secretary of War Stanton was spurring the military justice on, as often before. "Did Stanton ever march in the first line, to be shot at like this man?" Holt answered for his colleague in the negative.
The sight of them had a more exciting effect on Mr Holt than it had on me. He moved rapidly forward, coming to a standstill in front of the one upon our left, which was the nearer of the pair. 'This is the house! he exclaimed. He seemed almost exhilarated, I confess that I was depressed. A more dismal-looking habitation one could hardly imagine.
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