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"There you sit like a gorged vulture exactly like a vulture." He embraced the middle of the reach and both the banks in one blank unseeing circular glance, and left the bridge slowly. On turning to descend Massy perceived the head of Sterne the mate loitering, with his sly confident smile, his red mustaches and blinking eyes, at the foot of the ladder.

Mr. Doty indulged in a subdued chuckle. "A nice-lookin' feller he is to raise a infant babe!" he remarked. "Lord a massy! if thet thar ain't jest like one o' his doggoned tales! He is the derndest critter," with reflective delight, "the derndest! Thar ain't nothin' in Hamlin to come up to him." But the next day even Mr. Doty was convinced.

Just give me a minute or two." "I am busy. Go away from my door." "But pray, Mr. Massy . . ." "You go away. D'you hear? Take yourself off altogether to the other end of the ship quite away . . ." The voice inside dropped low. "To the devil." Sterne paused: then very quietly "It's rather pressing. When do you think you will be at liberty, sir?"

"My side combs are gone!" exclaims a nymph with dishevelled curls. "Massy! do look at my bonnet!" exclaims an old lady, elevating an article crushed into as many angles as there are pieces in a minced pie. "I never did sleep so much together in my life," echoes a poor little French lady, whom despair has driven into talking English.

I hae broken his head or now, for as massy as he's riding ahint us. And then ye'll no be gaun to stay in this country?" said he, stopping and interrupting himself. "Probably not," replied Morton. "Weel, I carena a boddle.

Massy left Aushar at nine A.M. in consideration of the shorter distance he had to traverse, and he headed for Killa Kazee, a village near the foothills of the western ridge about four miles from Aushar as the crow flies.

Scrambling beneath his gown the demented boy flung his arms around the massy pillar of the Doctor's leg, and prayed aloud to him for help, between heart-rending screams. Now it is undeniable that no elderly gentleman, of whatsoever position or condition, loves to be butted violently upon a generous lunch as he makes his placid way to his arm-chair, cigar, book, and ultimate pleasant doze.

My comrade Massy and I followed after him, but we moved slowly and with much difficulty, firstly because the post-horses were on their last legs, and then because of the great quantity of troops, guns, ammunition wagons, baggage, etc. with which the roads were obstructed.

On the broad canals innumerable barges and sloops and motor-boats were leisurely passing, and on the little side-canals and ditches which drained the fields the duckweed spread its pale-emerald carpet undisturbed. In the woods the tall woods of Holland the elms and the lindens were putting on frosted gold, and the massy beeches glowed with ruddy bronze in the sunlight.

He went up to her, and said, politely, "Madam, will you kindly lend me your bonnet?" "Massy sakes, what do you want of it?" "I won't injure it, I assure you." "You may take it, ef you want to," said the old lady; "but be keerful and don't bend it." "I will be very careful; but, madam," he said, in seeming surprise, "what have you got in it?" "Nothing, sir." "You are mistaken.