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"Don't act as though I was in the habit of beating you to death," I said, disgusted. I had never in my life raised whip to the brute. "But you are a fool dog," I continued. "No, you needn't come to be babied and wept over; Lys can do that, if she insists, but I am ashamed of you, and you can go to the devil." Môme slunk off into the house, and I followed, mounting directly to my wife's boudoir.
"You know he is very fond of you, Toni I got even Jim to acknowledge that the other night" she watched Toni wince at the "even" "and it's only that you well, you're not quite his sort, somehow." Her words seemed to rouse Toni to anger. "You have said that already," she said sharply. "You needn't repeat it." "I'm sorry, Toni." Eva's big eyes looked imploringly into hers.
"You needn't have long to wait if you can catch those creatures," said the doctor. "They'll yield as much cool water as we want." We all set off running after the terrapins, which, as they didn't move fast, we soon overtook. As we got close to them they drew their heads into their shells, and remained quiet.
But you needn't dismiss her altogether from your fastidiously romantic soul merely because she has belonged to another. There are extenuating circumstances. She married the Rev. Horace Spaulding, poor fellow, on his deathbed, when he was in the last stages of consumption, and two days later she was his widow." "You seem to know a good deal about her."
He laughed. "You needn't bother yourself about that sort of thing. I will attend to the locking up." She slightly knitted her brows in reflection. "Now then, Ralph," said she, "I am coming to it, and mind, not a word more than I ask for. Have we any horses?" "We have," he replied. "How many?" "Four." Miriam clasped her hands and looked at her brother with sparkling eyes.
I don't know," he burst out suddenly through an enormous rent in his solemnity, "if she thinks him absolutely a saint, but she certainly imagines him to be a martyr." It is one of the advantages of that magnificent invention, the prison, that you may forget people whom are put there as though they were dead. One needn't worry about them. Nothing can happen to them that you can help.
You said I needn't come back until I admitted the husks and swine." There was a light on the fine face of the older man. "Oliver, I never hoped to hear you say it." His hand dropped lightly on the boy's shoulders. "My son which was dead is alive again?" "Yes, dad." "What brought you to life?" "A woman." The hand dropped. "Not " "Not my wife. Put your hand back, dad. Another woman."
"Well, then, when I come back when we come back, and tell you what splendid and generous plans uncle has made for us, and how he has taken a beautiful furnished house and made it our home, and so on, why, you won't even come and look at the house!" "But I don't want to see it," the mother retorted; obstinately. "Well, then, you needn't!" said Alfred, rising. "Nobody will ask you again."
She didn't know that I saw it, but while she was talking a tear splashed right down in the dish-water, and I made up my mind that it must be something lots worse than just plain disappointment or discouragement, and that I was going to ask you. Now, you needn't snap your mouth shut that way, like a clam. You've got to tell me!"
These things are to be found in the Philosophical Transactions, the Mathematical Journal, and less frequently in one or two other such publications, and they needn't detain us here. Indeed, I doubt if I could write about them here. One acquires a sort of shorthand for one's notes and mind in relation to such special work.
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