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Then his head drooped upon his folded arms, he doubted himself and his work, he told himself that he was living in a fool's Paradise a fool's Paradise indeed! One afternoon there came a timid knock at his door. He turned in his chair a little impatiently. Then his pen slipped from his fingers. His left hand gripped the side of the table, his right hand the arm of his chair.
Thus the Lord made that pleasant refreshing, which another time would have been an abomination. Then I went home to my mistress's wigwam; and they told me I disgraced my master with begging, and if I did so any more, they would knock me in the head. I told them, they had as good knock me in head as starve me to death. They said, when we went out, that we must travel to Wachusett this day.
"Where is this heroic bugler of the Spanish war?" said Uncle Ike, trying to be calm, but actually frothing at the mouth. "Bring him here, and let me hear him say these things, condemn him, and I will take him across my knee and I will knock the wind out of him, so that he can never gather enough in his carcass to blow another bugle. Why, confound him, he is a liar.
I ventured, when we got out, to suggest that we might perhaps have spent a pleasanter afternoon at Belem. Lalage snubbed me sharply. "Certainly not," she said. "I'm going in for the Vice-Chancellor's prize for English verse next year and the subject is mortality. I shall simply knock spots out of the other competitors when I work in those kings. "'Sceptre and crown Must tumble down,
Rapping at the door, Israel, pipe in mouth, begged the inmates for a light for his tobacco. "What the devil," roared a voice from within, "knock up a man this time of night to light your pipe? Begone!" "You are lazy this morning, my friend," replied Israel, "it is daylight. Quick, give me a light. Don't you know your old friend? Shame! open the door."
Janet Dundas told him, in answer to his knock, that she could not abide him, but she changed her mind when he said her garden was quite a show.
The little nest at the end of the tunnel where he had once lived had been far safer. "I know what I'll do!" he cried at last, as a happy thought came to him. "I'll hang a sign outside my door." He set to work. And soon he had printed a sign. On one side of this was the notice, "Gone to Lunch. Back To-morrow." And on the other side were the words, "At Home. Don't Knock. Walk In."
"Let me tell you, boys, the old river may look pretty fine in spots down our way, but shucks! it can't hold a candle to what you'll see up here. Soon's I got my eyes fastened on that picture I thought of you, Jack, and how you'd just love to knock off such a handsome view for keeps. "But fishing was what I'd come after, and so I put all other notions out of my head.
It was a little way open; she need not knock then knock and wait trembling for the answer. Perhaps Mr. Harper was not there, and so for a few minutes she was safe from the dreaded meeting. She went in. The room was empty, but her husband's handkerchief and riding-gloves were lying about; he had apparently just gone down-stairs.
You like to fight and knock folks round sometimes, but you don't lie, and I don't believe you'd steal," and Nat shook his head decidedly. "I've done both. "O Dan! don't say it's you! I'd rather have it any of the other boys," cried Nat, in such a distressed tone that Dan looked pleased, and showed that he did, by turning round with a queer expression in his face, though he only answered,
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