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They make long journeys, too, just as the mother seals have to do, because a seal needs at least thirty pounds of fish a day to keep in good condition. All the nearby fishing-grounds have been exhausted." "I suppose the different colors show the different ages?" the boy suggested. "Exactly," the agent answered. "That's important, too.
"Yes, that's the word. An' this feller what tol' me sez as how he's very proud and haughty-like an' has a beyootiful daughter, an' an' " Pete dropped his voice, and paused, eyeing Remedios, the Mexican in the nearby flivver. "Think he kin hear me," he whispered. "Guess not," said Jack. "Why?" He, too, looked toward Remedios.
I was going to lick everybody in the jail, if I must. "Put that stave down Gregory! put it down, for Christ's sake!" "Good God! Grab Jim, someone!" "Don't be a fool ... hold Gregory ... he's got the stave!" "He'll kill Jim!" "Or Jim'll kill him!"... Then came a shout from nearby. "I'll heve the law on ye, I will! destroyin' a man's cornfield like a lot o' heathens!"
"Once you asked me if I'd fight for you, and look what it got me into! No commitments." He glanced along the battlements. There was a fairly large coil of rope in view. He picked up his bag and went over to it. He checked the fastening of one end and tumbled the other over the wall. Ten minutes later he trudged up to Thal, waiting in the nearby woodland with two horses.
Obsessed with creating a world of his own, Fox bares a captive community to his innovative dreams, poisoned experiments, and diminishing sanity. Rama suggested that we act busy, so I went outside and pushed a broom. I smelled smoke. Nearby brush fires had been fanned out of control by increasingly strong winds.
Her treatment from her master and mistress was pleasant, always receiving plenty of food and clothing but never any money. In a grove not far from the plantation home, the slaves from the nearby estates meet on Sunday for worship. Here under the spreading branches they gathered for religious worship and to exchange news.
The chateau of Vermelles, where that had happened, was an empty ruin, and there was no sign of the gilt furniture, or the long mirrors, or the marble Venus when I looked through the charred window-frames upon piles of bricks and timber churned up by shell-fire. The gunner officer took us to the cemetery, to meet some friends of his who had their battery nearby.
When I rang the visitors' bell of a pretty dwelling upon one of the nearby streets a distinguished gentleman in uniform came to the door, and, acquainted with my business, he said, "Ah, that is an affair of my wife," and invited me within. He was obviously English.
"Where did you drop from? and what has happened?" "Give me something to eat," Curly gasped, "an' then I'll tell ye. I'm almost dead." Laying aside his rifle, the other opened a bag nearby and produced several hard-tack biscuits. Like a ravenous beast Curly seized and devoured them. "More, more," he begged. "I'm short myself," Dan informed him, as he again thrust his hand into the bag.
Every tourist visits it, making a pious pilgrimage first to the Residency, where in the midst of green lawns and banyan trees the scarred ruins tell of the unforgettable Mutiny days of '57; and then to the nearby cemetery, where the dead sleep among the jasmines.
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