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He pointed with his gauntleted hand, turning as he did so in the saddle. The action brought recognition of Cleave's presence upon the road. Stafford ceased speaking and sat still, observing the other with narrowed eyes. Cleave addressed the figure, which, there being no help for it, had come from behind the caisson. "You, Dagg, of course! Straggling or deserting I wonder which this time!
Without observing it I rubbed myself against a wall which had been freshly whitewashed," answered the puppet, ashamed to confess that he had been floured like a fish prepared for the frying-pan. "And what have you done with your jacket, your trousers, and your cap?" "I met with robbers, who took them from me. Tell me, good old man, could you perhaps give me some clothes to return home in?"
Veitch was strictly religious and conscientious, observing the Sabbath day with great solemnity; and I had the impression that he was stern to his wife, who seemed to be a person of intelligence, for I remember seeing her come from the washing-tub to point out the planet Venus while it was still daylight.
But Rhadamanthus observing an ingenuous modesty in her countenance and behaviour, bid them both let her loose, and set her aside for a re-examination when he was more at leisure. An old woman, of a proud and sour look, presented herself next at the bar, and being asked what she had been doing?
Out of the earnings of the prisoners in this way, she formed a fund, which she applied to furnishing them with work on their discharge; thus enabling them again to begin the world honestly, and at the same time affording her, as she herself says, "the advantage of observing their conduct."
O auspicious damsel, it behoves thee not to say so, for the sake of those auspicious results for which every family must strive. O auspicious damsel, how can I behold thee at even this, the sixth division of the day, abstaining from food and observing vows? Thou art endued with purity and good conduct and penances. Alas, even thou hast to pass thy days in so much misery.
They go far wrong who think that this Knox was a gloomy, spasmodic, shrieking fanatic. Not at all: he is one of the solidest of men. Practical, cautious-hopeful, patient; a most shrewd, observing, quietly discerning man.
Fine idea, ain't it? Colouring fine, too." He jumped up quickly and laid the book on my table, to the evident distress of Harriet. "Trims up the room, don't it?" he exclaimed, turning his head a little to one side and observing the effect with an expression of affectionate admiration. "How much," I asked, "will you sell the covers for without the insides?" "Without the insides?"
"I wonder when that corner of the house got knocked off," the M.G.O. was observing. "Fairly recently, I should say," replied the Brigadier. "Those marks beside your bedroom window, sir, they look pretty fresh!" interpolated the Padre, a sincere but somewhat tactless Christian. Brigade Headquarters regarded one another with dubious smiles.
"Have you read your cousin's letter, Ruth?" asked her mother as she took her seat. "Why, what makes you look so unhappy?" she exclaimed, observing the girl's grave face. "It's very silly, I know, mother; and I didn't mean to be vexed about it," she began, "but Julia said something about my going to the sea-side with them to spend the holidays.
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