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Now ain't it hard that she won't trust me with a single teaspoon; ain't it ungentlemanlike, Altamont? You know my lady's of low birth that is I beg your pardon hem that is, it's most cruel of her not to show more confidence in me. And the very servants begin to laugh the damn scoundrels! I break every bone in their great hulking bodies, curse 'em, I will.
He said Mass in some small village before he was made the cure of a canton. He has preached, confessed, distributed alms to the poor, borne the viaticum to the sick, committed the dead to their last narrow home. The Roman prelate is often a great hulking fellow who has just left college, with the tonsure for his only sacrament.
Within they went, where hulking, strong-shouldered men were turning the logs from the piles without, along the skidways and to the carriage of the mill, their cant hooks working in smooth precision, their muscles bulging as they rolled the great cylinders of wood into place, steadied them, then stood aside until the carriages should shunt them toward the sawyer and the tremendous, revolving wheel which was to convert them into "board feet" of lumber.
The story I am going to tell you is of someone who did disturb them, and pried upon them after laughing at them. The name of the youth was Barker, a great, idle, hulking fellow, who lived in the neighbourhood of the well where these little Buccas dwelt.
The slight, tall, girlish figure in its dainty creamy draperies had passed out of sight now between its two black-robed guardians. And had not Luck, that mutable-minded deity, given the golden chance to a hulking stranger in white drill, his, Beauvayse's, might have been the hand to intervene in the matter of the Colonel's restive charger, and his the ears to receive Beauty's acknowledgments.
Sprague, you must say precisely who and what you mean, and swear to it before Mr. Sprague, who is a notary public." Jasper straightened. "Fer nothin'?" His tone was inimitable. Bernard Graves looked him coldly in the eye. "We're not bribing people." The loafer raised his hulking body and leered over him; the young man got upon his feet, half expecting assault.
But she repulsed his hand quietly. "For what do you take me?" said she, colouring faintly; "we are travellers and strangers the same as you, and bound to feel for those in like plight." Then Gerard blushed in his turn and stammered excuses. The hulking husband grinned superior to them both.
If I had taken time to do a proper job once instead of a halfway job a dozen times, as I should have done and usually would have done, I would have had a fire in no time. I imagine I was somewhat scared. The lioness and her hulking cub had smelled the buffalo and were prowling around. I could hear them purring and uttering their hollow grunts. However, at last the flame held.
I haven't time for all that sort of little monkey business. There's too much detail involved in it." "Yes, sir," said Merker, and withdrew. About two weeks later, however, he reappeared, towing after him an elderly, bearded farmer and a bashful-looking, hulking youth. "This is Mr.
A great surge of feeling rushed over her as she realized how clean and good how perfect this man seemed in comparison with the hulking brutality of MacNair.
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