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"You mean," said Bryce, "that none's ever been discovered there; quite a different thing. I hope to discover some before I'm done." "It's too far west for mines," the other asserted. Mr. Bryce passed over the man's statement in a way that showed that as far as he was concerned that aspect of the matter was over and done with.
You do not know their cunning. That was ever the way of the Saracens. They do not come for a while, no not they, for a long while, and then one day they come." And peering southwards, but not seeing clearly because of the rising mist, he silently moved to his tower and up its broken steps. How Plash-Goo Came to the Land of None's Desire
You've got to bring a bwoy, I tell 'e, to keep us from both gwaine stark mad. 'T was foreordained he should leave his holy likeness. God's truth! You should be proud 'stead o' fearful such a man as he was. Hold your head high an' pray when none's lookin', pray through every wakin' hour an' watch yourself as you'd watch the case of a golden jewel.
'If you would not think a stranger impertinent for asking, said he, 'and if it would not be painful to you to explain. 'Oh, impertinent, your honour! it's very kind and, sure, none's a stranger to one's heart, that feels for one. And for myself, I can talk. of my troubles without thinking of them.
Plash-Goo shot over the edge and for some way further, out towards Space, like a stone; then he began to fall. At last he saw it unmistakable, close, with its grim houses and its dreadful ways, and its green fields shining in the light of the evening. His cloak was streaming from him in whistling shreds. So Plash-Goo came to the Land of None's Desire. The Three Sailors' Gambit
The latter did not return the wink. He kept a sober gaze fastened on Racey Dawson. Racey was staring at Mr. Saltoun. His eyes began to narrow. "Meanin'?" he drawled. "Now don't go crawlin' round huntin' offense where none's meant," advised Mr. Saltoun. "But you know how it is yoreself, Racey.
He knew it was dangerous without gloves; he suspected chromazone, even though none's supposed to be on board. And I warned him . . ." "Not against this, you didn't," I told her. I dropped to my knees and took another pair of gloves. Hendrix's head rolled under my grasp. The skull was smashed over the left eye, as if someone had taken a sideswipe at Hendrix with a hammer. No fall had produced that.
"Rub the horse down, and come in to get something. This ain't a night fit for a dog to be out in; is it?" "No, indeed, sir," said the man. "I hope none's out in it but what likes to be." They went in. Madge looked up from arranging the table for supper, and stared at Hawker keenly. He laughed aloud, and said, "So you didn't expect me to-night, deary, eh?"
Clair, "and I don't wonder at it. If I had been through all I think you've been through I'd tumble off that horse into the road and die." "Has any messenger come from Colonel Sherburne at the river to General Lee?" "Not that I've heard of. No, I'm sure that none's come," replied St. Clair. "Then I'll get to him first.
"If you would not think a stranger impertinent for asking," said he, "and if it would not be painful to you to explain." "Oh, impertinent, your honour! it's very kind and, sure, none's a stranger to one's heart, that feels for one. And for myself, I can talk of my troubles without thinking of them.
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