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"Charley tak' him," was all he said, and Kars, obediently, shipped his paddle. Then came an exhibition of canoeing which rewarded the white men for their faith in their disreputable henchman. Charley played with the light craft in the great volume of stream as a feather might yield to a gentle breeze.
In the excitement of the first stages of one of her expeditions into another's territory, Jimmie's first letter arrived. It was mailed at Honolulu, and consisted obediently of the cryptic statement: "There is no girl on the boat. She is a widow, but lots of fun." And it changed the character of the invasion from a harmless survey of the land to a determined attack upon its fortresses.
"You should not be cross; you are too big and strong and good. Go in and get my bowl of bread and milk for me, and hand it to me up here. It is so pleasant. It is as nice as being perched on an apple-tree." Jeannot went in obediently and handed up her breakfast to her, looking at her with shy, worshipping eyes.
If you're going to get your beauty sleep, my dear, you ought to begin on it immediately." Eleanor rose obediently, her brow clouded a little, and her head held high. David watched the color coming and going in the sweet face and the tender breast rising and falling with her quickening breath. "I thought perhaps you would understand," she said. "Good night."
Ruth has so much money she simply cannot realize what it means to try to make a good appearance on a small allowance, especially here in Washington where one goes out so much." "I was only joking, Harriet," Ruth apologized as she and Barbara obediently followed their hostess upstairs.
He rolled up the coat for a pillow when One-Eye rose and threw it down to him; and being offered a horse blanket, pulled it up to his brows and lay back obediently, to the peril of the orange, which was under him, and so to his own discomfort. "So long, sonny." The single green eye gleamed down at him almost affectionately from under the wide brim. "Thank y'," returned Johnnie.
Giles became a candidate, and whose bidding he will do if he becomes governor as blindly and obediently as the Honourable Adam B. Hunt ever did. Who sent the solid citizens to see Mr. Henderson? They picked Mr.
Miss Moy, the Captain and his friend, talked horses at one end of the table, and Rosamond faltered her woman's horror for the rights of her sex, increased by this supposed instance. When the ladies rose at dessert, Mrs. Duncombe summoned him: "Come, Rector! come, Professor! you're not to sit over your wine." "We rise so far above the ordinary level of manhood!" said Julius, obediently rising.
At this moment a shout was heard from the alley, "Yay, Penrod!" and the sandy head of comrade Sam Williams appeared above the fence. "Come on over," said Penrod. As Sam obediently climbed the fence, the little old dog, Duke, moved slowly away, but presently, glancing back over his shoulder and seeing the two boys standing together, he broke into a trot and disappeared round a corner of the house.
'Mabel, please take the shade off the lamp and put it over here. She armed herself with a pencil and a large sheet of white paper as she spoke. 'Now, Vincent, put yourself so that your shadow comes just here, and keep perfectly still. Don't move, or talk, or anything, or your profile will be spoilt! 'I feel very nervous, Dolly, said Vincent, sitting down obediently. 'What a coward you must be!
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