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He still wore the beard, now white, that was practically the monster-hunters' uniform. "The stuff come in all right?" I asked Dad, letting down the lifter. "Yes. What do you think of that fellow Belsher?" he asked. "Did you ever hear such an impudent string of lies in your life?" Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the lifter full of luggage, and saw somebody with me. "Mr. Murell?
“He would insist upon taking us to Mabille, the Closerie des Lilas, and the Châteaurouge, where he would indulge in the maddest pranks and antics, and somehow lead us to join in the wildest dances, and make us lift our legs as high as the highest lifter among the habitués, male or female.
At this moment Nancy, whose face was white with anxiety, made her appearance. 'Fetch some water from the spring, Roland said, 'I wish to attend to his wound, pointing to the prostrate Lifter. 'How has this happened? Nancy enquired, in an anxious voice; though she was thoroughly familiar with such scenes of violence. 'This old monster here was aiming a death-blow at my head, and he warned me.
The captain sent The Lifter out to fetch the animal in, but the poor brute seemed to know that harm was intended, and it went back further into the bush. All the night it cried there; but at sunrise Murfrey crept out with a long-barrelled gun and shot it. They had now reached the extremity of the tunnel, and Nancy suggested that they should hasten back.
Bearse and his coterie that "Shavings" Winslow was "next door to loony." He cooked a breakfast, but how he cooked it or of what it consisted he could not have told. The next day he found the stove-lid lifter on a plate in the ice chest. Whatever became of the left-over pork chop which should have been there he had no idea. Babbie came dancing in at noon on her way home from school.
All these levers that you have seen helping to lift loads have been right at your hand to help you if you would only have given them an opportunity. "How shall you bear your burdens? With a smile on your face, and love in your heart, and any lifter that you can find."
And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins: seeing Thou commandest me to love my neighbour as myself, I cannot believe that Thou gavest a less gift unto Moses Thy faithful servant, than I would wish or desire Thee to have given me, had I been born in the time he was, and hadst Thou set me in that office, that by the service of my heart and tongue those books might be dispensed, which for so long after were to profit all nations, and through the whole world from such an eminence of authority, were to surmount all sayings of false and proud teachings.
With one blow of his knife, then, Roland severed the cord, and The Lifter fell like a log upon the turf. Descending then he found that the miserable wretch had fainted from his suffering; indeed, for a time he could discover no trace of a pulse. 'Nancy, fetch me a glass of brandy, immediately.
He would see what she could do with them. But she busied herself at the breakfast without a thought of the epoch-marking nature of these purchases. "Do you milk?" she asked, presently. "Milk what?" he demanded, pausing with stove-lid and lifter raised in his hand, in the half-completed act of putting wood on the fire. "Dave!" she cried. "Put that lid down. Look at the smoke."
I should still be a penniless prince, more useless than ever." He sat down on the broad lintel capping the parapet, but retained her hand. "Ta-user," he continued, as she opened her lips to speak, "what wouldst thou have me do?" "I would have thee be useful." "I shall throw away my lordly trappings," he said, "and become a lifter of the shadoof this day."
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