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She had only voice enough to say: "What makes you think so?" "Don't you think so?" "That's not a fair question." "It's a vital one." "To you yes. But " "But not to you. Oh, I understand that well enough. But you've been such a good pal that I thought you might help me to see " "I'm afraid I can't help you to see anything. If I were to try I might mislead you." "But you must know, by Jove!
His going would cause not a ripple in the life of the community it would bring with it better opportunities for his family, rather than a burden of sorrow! "I can't grieve for him!" Rose-Marie told herself desperately. "I can't grieve for him! It's the only chance he ever gave to his children dying! Perhaps, without him, they'll be able to make good...."
It's yonder writing that keeps you. I know life, but you and your wife are just like two children. Evil is forgotten in the twinkling of an eye, and blessing is to come straight from Heaven, like quails and manna. What sort of a creature have your books made you, since you came with the doctor's hat from Coimbra? Then everybody said: 'Lopez, Senor Lopez.
I want to know, now, why mother was ill and why Jean and I have headaches." "Your mother was ill through an accident," he said gravely. "I don't wish to talk about that. And as for Jean and you well, it's what we expect of women. Man has made his women-folk invalids." "Doctor!" she gasped. "Women are always getting ill more or less. Their natural place in the scheme of things makes them weaker.
Allow me to ask you have you any relations in Yorkshire?" "No, sir, none." "And yet the name and Christian name are exactly the same. It's an odd coincidence! They, however, changed their name, when they came into the property." "Changed the name of Rushbrook, sir!" said Mary, who now thought that she had a clue to Joey's parents. "Yes, changed it to Austin; they live now in Dorsetshire.
It'll be off'n my mind then, and I kin sort of git a fresh start. I'm goin' right now and pack." "Kind of hasty, hain't you?... Now, Marthy, as a special favor to me I wish you'd stay, maybe two days more. I got a special reason. If you was to go this mornin' it 'u'd upset my plans. After Sattidy you kin do as you like, and maybe it's best you should part.
I trust it's nothing so bloodless as a study of economic forces or picture of the relationship of old things to new. It's that only as that touches a man's life, means something to that life. It's about the army because this man happens, for a time, to be in the army it's what the army does to him that's the thing. "Though it seems to me a pretty dead thing in these days.
"It's best always to carry potatoes with you," said Scoutmaster Safety First. "After this I'm always going to carry five or six," said Pee-wee. "The proof of the potatoes is in the eating," said Nick. "I know nine different ways to cook them," said Pee-wee; "and I can eat them raw so that makes ten. I can eat potato skins too, so that makes eleven."
The Rector's face, so brown and red, could not grow pale, but his great fists relaxed. Mrs. Pendyce was standing in the doorway with a peculiar half-pitiful, half-excited smile. "It's all right a boy. The poor dear has had a dreadful time!" The Rector looked at her, but did not speak; then abruptly he brushed past her in the doorway, hurried into his study and locked the door.
"I wonder why folks can bake pies who don't know how, and Mamsie never can have any." "That boy found your cent in th' road, and brought it clear way up here," cried Mrs. Marindy, on a high key, going into the keeping room, where the old man sat absorbed in his paper. "S'pose he did?" grunted old Mr. Peters. "I sh'd think you'd 'a' give it to him, Pa. It's a shame. Such a hot day as 'tis, too."
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