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I don't want to do anything to make you feel bad." "Oh," sobbed Carrie, "oh, oh oo o!" "There, there," he said, "you mustn't cry. Won't you listen to me? Listen to me a minute, and I'll tell you why I came to do this thing. I couldn't help it. I assure you I couldn't. Won't you listen?" Her sobs disturbed him so that he was quite sure she did not hear a word he said. "Won't you listen?" he asked.
There are in this neighbourhood some other and lower plains, but they do not abut one at the foot of the other, in the manner hereafter to be described, so characteristic of Patagonia. The plain on which the settlement stands is crossed by many low sand-dunes, abounding with the minute shells of the Paludestrina australis, d'Orbigny, which now lives in the bay.
Durations can have the two-termed relational property of extending one over the other. Thus the duration which is all nature during a certain minute extends over the duration which is all nature during the 30th
Even if we do not believe in some of the things those we like believe in, as long as it does no harm to our beliefs, we can do them to please a friend." Even Mr. Brown, because he liked Mary, went in and sat down for a minute with the others. "Now you've done away with the bad luck," said the cook with a smile. "What was it you came back for?" "Splash," answered Bunny.
"You seem to be hard hit," said Booth indifferently. He was watching the man in the "slicker" through moody eyes. "Oh, nothing like that," disclaimed Leslie, with unnecessary promptness. "But if I were given to that sort of thing, I'd be bowled over in a minute. Positively adorable face.
I had been thinking of Lad, my big boy, now away at school, and of the day when he should reach this experience for himself, and I should have to give him up my one near tie. I should surely feel adrift in that day far adrift. "Does it seem to you like that?" he asked, very gently, after a minute. I looked up, and saw a new and quite strange expression in his kindly eyes. "No, no," I said hastily.
Shore 'nough, one of 'em was still hitched to the fence, an' t'other was gone. We stood around a minute or two examinin' the hoss an' then pa says let's go up the road aways an' see if we c'n see anything. An' by gosh, we hadn't gone more'n fifty feet afore we come plumb on a man layin' in the middle of the road. Pa shook him an' he didn't let out a sound. He was warm but deader'n a tombstone.
The minute after the vessel had struck on the reef there was a rush for the boats, but the officers were prepared. Revolvers leaped out, and three or four men were struck down, the captain setting the example.
He went into the fosse, and there it seemed so pleasant that he sat down, and in a minute lay extended at full length in his favourite position, looking up at the sky. It was much more blue than he had ever seen it before, and it seemed only just over his head; the grasshoppers called in the grass at his side, and he could hear a lark sing, singing far away, but on a level with him.
Arsinoe leaned far over the parapet of the balcony, shaded her eyes with her hand and was silent for more than a minute. Then she suddenly cried out loudly and exclaiming: "Mother it is my mother!" She flew into the room behind her.
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