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The man was stammering some very impolite words, and Tom was anxious to get his sister and Ruth away. The girls lifted the lamb in upon the back seat and laid it tenderly upon some wraps. Then the boy leaped into the front seat and prepared to start. "I tell ye what it is!" exclaimed the farmer, coming close to the car. "This ain't no better than highway robbery.
"Our father has sent us for you to visit him." With one bound they leaped into his boat, bringing with them the smaller lady, who said: "Oh! bright sun and brave sky that I see so seldom!" But Civil heard no more, for his boat went down miles deep in the sea, and he thought himself drowning.
"If a mob attacks this State House there's got to be a fight." "It takes two to make a fight, sir. Order General Totten to march his troops out of the State House. Machine-guns and all! Tell 'em to go home and go to bed." That audacious advice was a second bomb! After a few moments Senator Corson leaped out of his chair, strode across the room, and plucked his coat and hat from the divan.
The conductor came for his buono mano, the new horses were harnessed in, the postilions leaped into the saddles, and thus both parties set out upon their night ride. It was not far from nine o'clock. "And now," said Mr. George, "before a great while we shall come upon the Pontine Marshes."
Rushing on, regardless of the height of the cliff, they leaped over it. I thought they must have broken their legs; but they alighted unhurt. Just then I saw Donald coming on at full speed, directly after another herd. They, too, made for the precipice. I shouted out to him, fearing that he might not see it, and that he and his horse would fall over and be killed.
His teeth shut down like a vise. Again the electric current leaped forth and sparkled through the veins of Bee, who turned and rode back into the Southern throng, the Virginians following swiftly. Then Jackson looked over the field with the eye and mind of genius, the eye that is able to see and the mind that is able to understand amid all the thunder and confusion and excitement of battle.
The next moment the animal met my sight, as he leaped up on to the trunk of a lodged tree, where he stood in open view, eagerly snuffing and glaring around him, about forty rods from the place where I had been brought to a stand, revealing a monster whose size, big as I had conjectured it, perfectly amazed me.
"Ah, Joe!" said his father; he touched his hat to the cook, who snatched his cap off. "What a brick you are, father!" thought Dan. His heart leaped at the notion of getting away from Ponkwasset; he perceived how it had been irking him to stay. "If you think I could manage it with Lafflin " "Oh, I think you could. He's another slippery chap." Dan laughed for pleasure and pain at his father's joke.
Despairingly she turned to see if there was anything on the dock with which she might help Locke and she saw the Automaton himself advancing from the shore toward her. She turned. The emissaries on the other end of the dock cut off any chance in that direction. Without a moment's hesitation Eva poised herself a moment on the edge of the dock and leaped far out into the blackness of the river.
"It sure does feel good to get a breath of cool air, folks," he said, as he drew with relief a deep breath of the air, which, at that great elevation, was of an icy temperature and very thin. He glanced at the little group of Kondalians as he spoke, then leaped back to the instrument board with an apology on his lips they were gasping for breath and shivering with the cold.
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