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Worth, kneeling on the hearth, was laying a fire in the corner grate. As he did not glance up, I knew he had not heard me. Evidently the study had been built to resist the disturbance of sound from without. That meant that the report of the revolver inside had not been heard by any one outside the walls.
Imogen's two brothers then carried her to a shady covert, and there laying her gently on the grass, they sang repose to her departed spirit, and covering her over with leaves and flowers, Polidore said, "While summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I will daily strew thy sad grave.
Well, there's one comfort, the skull isn't cracked. Now cut some strips of that plaister, and place them across and across." I followed out his instructions, and ended by laying some lint over the wound and securing all with a neatly sewn on bandage.
Nothing in the world but a clean calico dress. Now it is done I see it would have been better with plain paper." "It is clean and unobtrusive," Celia agreed, smiling. Her smiles were a little forced this morning, it was easy to see; and Miss Betty, laying a kind hand on her arm, said, "Don't worry too much, Celia. I know something about hard times, and you will work through after a while."
Horace spoke, laying his finger on the telegram. His voice had changed with the change in his face. The tone was low and trembling: no one would have recognized it as the tone of Horace's voice. "What does this mean?" he said to Mercy. "It can't be for you?" "It is for me." "What have You to do with a Refuge?"
Keith had little difficulty in assigning the scandalous story to its true source, though he did Ferdy Wickersham an injustice in laying the whole blame on him. Meantime, Keith determined that he would not go to Mrs. Wentworth's again until after he had seen Norman, even though it deprived him of the chance of seeing Lois.
Alas! that evil living should have caused his early death!" When he had finished laying out the body, he threw some little packets into the fire which he professed to have found in the youth's pockets, telling Martin, in order to support this assertion, that they contained drugs suitable to this disgraceful malady.
Laying these pieces of wood on the ground, I drew my canoe over them to the shore of Currituck Sound; then, by making up back-loads of the cargo, transported everything to the point of embarkation, which was just inside the mouth of a little creek. The row to Currituck Narrows was not difficult, as the north wind was a fair one.
Let us admit that, when the normal conditions remain, a laying would have yielded m females and n males.
"Are we right in allowing him to do so?" "Allowing him! Who is to forbid him?" "Is he safe, do you think?" "Safer, it would seem, my friend, than when laying a foundation-stone, with ourselves and all his suite around him!" responded the Professor. "Besides, it is too late now to count the possible risks of the adventure he has entered upon.
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