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"We shall come to it very soon," he answered. "But," I said, "mayn't we have ridden past it without seeing it?" He laughed a loud and terrible laugh. "When once you have seen it, little one," he replied, "you too will laugh at the notion of having ridden past it without seeing it. The worm that never dies is hardly a thing to escape notice!" We rode on and on.
"It is a great blessing to be allowed to see a miracle performed with your own eyes." "So it is," agreed John. "And if you keep your eyes well open, there's not a minute of the livelong day when you mayn't see one." "It is very strange," said Annunziata, "but when the sun shines, then I love the sunny weather, and am glad that it does not rain.
Stephen looked as if he did not see her; as if he did not even see Michael very distinctly. "I'm going," he said, "to Ireland on Monday week, the third of August. I mayn't come back for long enough. I may not come back at all." "That's the sort of thing he keeps on saying." "I may not come back at all. So I want you to take over the Review for me.
I hope your father mayn't hear these stories before you have spoken to him yourself. Clara listened with a contemptuous smile. 'What has she been saying? 'I shan't repeat it. As he gazed at her, the haggardness of her countenance smote like a sword-edge through all the black humours about his heart, piercing the very core of love and pity. He spoke in a voice of passionate appeal.
"Now what are we to do for clothes, Clare?" said sir Harry. "Perhaps somebody would lend me some," answered Clare. "Mayn't I be your cabin-boy, father? You will let me be a sailor, won't you, and sail always with you?" "You shall be a sailor, my boy," answered sir Harry, "and sail with me as long as God pleases. You know to obey orders!" "I will obey the cook if you tell me, father."
She tried hard to read the answer, regarding Cecily earnestly the while. "Mayn't I work for both of you?" she asked at last. "Well, I can't see why you should do that," said Cecily, rolling out of the hammock and fretfully smoothing her hair. "I'm a busy-body. That's it," said Mina. "You know what'll happen if he finds it out? Harry, I mean. He'll be furious with both of us." Mina reflected.
"You're not going to one of his meetings, Miss Boyce!" cried Frank, in angry incredulity. Marcella hesitated an instant, half angry with Wharton. Then she reddened and threw back her dark head with the passionate gesture Hallin had already noticed as characteristic. "Mayn't I go where I belong?" she said "where my convictions lead me?" There was a moment's awkward silence. Then Hallin got up.
Think o' what, Brer Phelps, s'I? Think o' that bed-leg sawed off that a way, s'e? THINK of it, s'I? I lay it never sawed ITSELF off, s'I somebody SAWED it, s'I; that's my opinion, take it or leave it, it mayn't be no 'count, s'I, but sich as 't is, it's my opinion, s'I, 'n' if any body k'n start a better one, s'I, let him DO it, s'I, that's all. I says to Sister Dunlap, s'I "
He made tentative efforts to go, but seemed awkwardly rooted to the spot. He was gazing at her with an open admiration of which he was quite unconscious, and which was drowning, along with him, in the rising sea of embarrassment in which he floundered. "We'd like to hear you tell about the Klondike," Madge said. "Mayn't we come over some day while you are at your sister's!
"Why, he wants some one badly to stand his friend wid them; an' if you were married to her, you should on his account become one o' thim; begad, as it is, you ought, for to tell the truth there's talk strong talk too about payin' him a nightly visit that mayn't sarve him." "Then, Bartle, you're consarned in this business."
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