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This, of course, was not much, but owing to the very moderate charge for lodging made by Solomon Flint with whom and his sister he took up his abode the sum was sufficient to enable him, after a few months, to send home part of his first year's earnings to his mother.
I don't believe, lads as ever I wos above two months ashore at a time all the coorse of my life, an' mostly not as long as that.
This incident of the livery occupied the public attention, and inflamed the universal hatred during the later months of the minister's residence in the country. Meantime the three seigniors had become very impatient at receiving no answer to their letter.
Many's the time I wish I was with him, for I'm dog-tired of everything goin'. Best-hearted feller ever broke bread, Bat was; an' the prittiest rider ever I seen on a horse. Yes; pore ole chap's gone. You'd 'a' thought he was on'y asleep when " No further word was spoken for a couple of minutes. Then Stevenson asked: "How long since you came down?" "Five months since I left the Diamantinar.
Their slender incomes have to be so carefully handled to meet the strain of even this simple way of living, if they are to show a surplus for a little trip to the seashore in the summer months, that an extra franc a day becomes a serious consideration. It is here that a sad fate awaits these modern Rip Van Winkles. They find their native cities changed beyond recognition.
If only he had known; if he could have been sure of her friendship; if he could have seen her for one moment in many months, one hour in many years, the thing would never have begun; or, being begun, could never have been carried through. Meanwhile the friendship remained. His being married could not make it less; and his being unmarried would certainly not have made it more.
"Hanged if I don't believe this is the place; only they've stuck a veranda roof on it." We turned into the entrance of the hotel, to find ourselves in the well-remembered long, low room wherein we had spent the evening a few months before. It was now furnished with a bar, the flimsy partitions had been knocked out, and evidently additions had been constructed beyond the various closed doors.
And I cannot express my regret at the sorrow you have returned to meet." "I sorrow why?" She stared at him wonderingly. He looked surprised, then understood. Claire listened silently to his brief, sincere sympathy as he told her how her husband had died during the winter of pneumonia. "It has been nearly six months now," he finished, "and, of course, I am very sorry for you.
After a majority had re-enlisted and an organization was secure, it would have been better to have discharged the remaining three months' men and to have sent them home at once; but authority for this could not be got, for the civil officers could not see, and did not know what a nuisance these men were.
That would put off the return to Granite House until the first days of December. At this time two months of spring had already passed. The weather was fine, and the heat began to be great. The forests of the island were in full leaf, and the time was approaching when the usual crops ought to be gathered.
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