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She had never seen him look serious before, and she was thinking that the expression became him. "He knows how to make himself attractive to a woman when he cares to," she said to herself. "I'd like a man that has lightness of mind. Serious people bore one so after a while." By "serious people" she meant one serious person whom she had admired particularly for his seriousness.
It meant the presence of a wild, rending passion, of elemental impulses; it meant that the man who faced him was eager to kill him, was awaiting his slightest hostile movement. It meant more.
I have seen the people of this country talked into a policy with regard to South Africa at once so injurious to their own interests, and so base towards those who had thrown in their lot with us and trusted us, that, if the British nation had only known what that policy really meant, they would have spat it out of their mouths.
Uncle Richard sat constantly by the bed, watching his brother, until their eyes happened to meet, when he would look away with an expression that was meant to be unconcerned, for the doctor had particularly said that the patient was not to be excited.
He never paid me; and as you was the young gen'lman in the cheer, I comes to you." Now Eric knew for the first time what Brigson had meant by his threatened revenge. He saw at once that the man had been put up to act in this way by some one, and had little doubt that Brigson was the instigator. Perhaps it might be even true, as the man said, that he had never received the money.
Would the whites permit the blacks to continue as their competitors after labor had been elevated above drudgery? To do this meant the continuation of the custom of taking youths of African blood as apprentices. This the white mechanics of the North generally refused to do.
There was unquestionably a sudden alteration in his look and manner; the cook asked herself what it meant. If she had seen the doctor at his secret work in the laboratory, the change in him might have put her on her guard. His story began in the innocent, old-fashioned way. "Once upon a time, there was a master and there was a maid. We will call the master by the first letter of the alphabet Mr.
Long before the sun had made its appearance, man and dog were retracing their steps over the trail they had traversed the previous evening. It meant much to turn back and thread their way across that desolate waste of snow, through dreary forests, level plains, and sweeping lakes.
"But the words he used, son. Remember the words." "Yes, and if I had spoken them they would have meant a great deal, but in Adrian's mouth I think no more of them than if they came from some angry woman.
On the other hand, if he wished to buy only one forty, he described its position in the quarter-section. Thus SW NW 49 17 8, meant the southwest forty of the northwest quarter of section 8 in the township already described. The clerk marked across each square of his map as Thorpe read them, the date and the purchaser's name.
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