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I'll tell you about it," and Tom related the details of Mr. Period's visit. "Are you going to take his offer?" asked Ned. "I've got until tomorrow to make up my mind. What would you do, Ned?" "Why, I'd take it in a minute, if I knew how to make an electric camera. I suppose it has to be a very speedy one, to take the kind of pictures he wants. Wait, hold on, I've just thought of a joke.
'Ay, Sir, that I was, he replied; 'see that broken tooth, there I forgot 'twas there and the minute I seen it, I remembered it like this morning I could swear to it when he laughed; ay, and that sharp corner to it hang him, and he twirled the loose tooth, the last but two of all its fellows, from' its socket, and chucked it into the grave.
Ah, if I could only make your dear heart ache one little minute of each day as mine does every day and all day long, it might lead you to show pity to your poor lonely one. ... I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine. ... I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear!
Finding himself in the level wood-road, whose open aisle drew a long, straight streak across the sky, still luminous with the late-lingering Adirondack twilight, the tall young fugitive, hatless, coatless, and barefooted, paused a minute for reflection.
Soon we made out a group of officers on the deck of this vessel, signaling with a flag, "Who are you!" The answer went back promptly, "General Sherman." Then followed the question, "Is Fort McAllister taken?" "Not yet, but it will be in a minute!"
But he led with the wrong foot. He laughed at the church." "Sure he did," agreed Charleton. "Why not? Remember old Fowler? A fine sample of the church!" Peter rose and paced the floor a minute. "Let me tell you folks something. I laugh at the cant they've wrapped the church up in. But I don't laugh at the system of ethics Christ taught.
She had spoken frankly, and neither asked nor ex- pected any reply from Gabriel more satisfactory than that she had obtained. Yet in the centremost parts of her complicated heart there existed at this minute a little pang of disappointment, for a reason she would not allow herself to recognize.
The rifle lay against the wall behind him, and he turned and touched it almost caressingly. "I ain't let go like this since he was killed, Sinnet. It don't do. I got to keep myself stiddy to do the trick when the minute comes. At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin' of Clint, an' missin' him, an' I got shaky and no good.
On the threshold of the world of living organisms stands that wonderful minute body, the cell, the unit of life a piece of self-regulating and self-renewing mechanism that holds the key to all the myriads of living forms that fill the world, from the amoeba up to man.
"I say it because the happiness of Miss O'Neill is of very great importance to me." "Do you mean ?" Wide-eyed, she looked her question straight at him. "That's just what I mean, Diane." She darned for a minute in silence. It had occurred to Diane before that perhaps Gordon might be in love with Sheba, but she had put the thought from her because she did not want to believe it.
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