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Arms rigid at her sides, and open palms pressed hard against the flaring skirts of her riding-coat, she shrank back from the glass. "Oo-oo!" she breathed, aghast. The gray eyes swam. After a moment, however, she blinked resolutely to clear her sight, stepped forward again, and, straightening her slender little figure to its utmost height, measured herself a second time against the mirror.
I was going from Stony Ridge to Shashkino; I went first through our walnut wood, and then passed by a little pool you know where there's a sharp turn down to the ravine there is a water-pit there, you know; it is quite overgrown with reeds; so I went near this pit, brothers, and suddenly from this came a sound of some one groaning, and piteously, so piteously; oo-oo, oo-oo!
Ah, you missed it and the "B. O. W. C." Series and say! there was a book in that library oo-oo! "Cast up by the Sea," all about wreckers, and false lights on the shore, and adventures in Central Africa, and there's a nigger queen that wants to marry him, and he don't want to because he loves a girl in England I think that's kind of soft and he kills about a million of them trying to get away.
"Welcome, little Poldo," said the Giant; and his voice sounded like the wind in the treetops; "what seek you here?" "I seek some words of the Fairy Malvolia which were carried away by the northeast wind at Prince Rolandor's christening," replied the poodle. "Whew, oo-oo," whistled the Giant of the North Pole. "If I have them, the words are yours."
The day that Jim was three years old, we signed the business away to the other people, and Phil took a position under them, in his own factory." "Oo-oo!" Susan winced. "Yes, it was hard. I did what I could for my poor old boy, but it was very hard. We lived very quietly; I had begun to come to my senses then; we had but one maid.
Ratsch turned to me 'don't you imagine, my young friend, that that comes from our excessive good-nature and meekness of spirit; it's simply that we fancy ourselves so highly exalted that oo-oo! we can't keep our cap on our head, as the Russian proverb says, and, of course, no criticism can touch us. The conceit, my dear sir, the conceit! I listened in surprise to Mr. Ratsch.
An hour ago! That's wrong, because the messengers can't have been back telephone message? That's a lot less than an hour ago. I sent it myself no more than half an hour since. Oo-oo! did you get that bump? Dunno, couple o' big shells or something dropped just outside. I can 'ardly 'ear you. There's a most almighty row going on all round.
With visible reluctance Lucy and Viney rose also, hitched their blankets into place, and vanished, soft-footed as they had come. "Oo-oo!" Evadna stared at the place where they were not. "Wild Indians I thought the boys were just teasing when they said so and it's really true, Aunt Phoebe?" "They're no wilder than you are," Phoebe retorted impatiently. "Oh, they ARE wild.
How funny!" she said, "Oo-oo!" "Now, don't let me hear another word out of you!" warned Jane. Gwendolyn turned her head slowly from side to side. A great light of some kind was flaming against her eyes a light shot through and through with black, whirling balls. Where did it come from? It stayed. And grew. Her eyes widened with wonderment. A smile curved her lips.
The longshoreman turned toward her now, and his look was full of hate. "I guess y'll do jus' about what I tell y' to," he said significantly. "Algy's goin' t' be too sick t' look after y'." Johnnie emitted a woeful little peep. "Oo-oo! Mister Perkins!" he pleaded. "Couldn't y' put off fightin' till till some other time?" Johnnie's anxious demand amused Big Tom.
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