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She would have laughed outright but for fear. Elizabeth leaned her head against the door jamb. "You look so tired," said Doris pityingly. "I am tired through and through. I am always glad to have Saturday night come and no knitting or anything. Don't you knit when you are home?" "I haven't knit much."

The more he laughed the crosser Jimmy Skunk grew, and the crosser Jimmy Skunk grew the more the Merry Little Breeze laughed. It was such a jolly laugh that pretty soon Jimmy Skunk began to grin a little sheepishly, then to really smile and finally to laugh outright in spite of his empty stomach.

"You might as well proclaim yourself a forger outright, as to force your father to declare this to be his signature," he observed. "I know it," said Frederick. "Yet you will run that risk?" "If you oblige me." Wattles shrugged his shoulders. He was a magnificent-looking man and towered in that old colonial hall like a youthful giant. "I bear you no ill will," said he.

"About what she was worth, Chief, within a dollar or two." "And what was she worth?" "What I paid for her-ten dollars." Then the two men looked at each other full in the eyes, and Jowett threw back his head and laughed outright laughed loud and hard. "Well, you got me, Chief, right under the guard," he observed. Ingolby did not laugh outright, but there was a bubble of humour in his eyes.

Her voice seemed dead. And he wondered at the unhappy creature's courage. "Divorce!" he then said violently; "No; he can't do that; and he had forgiven already; I don't know how the law stands; but of course you won't go away. What an idea; you might as well kill yourself outright. It's only . I don't know how the law stands. I don't know what Hugh will say."

However, the stubbornness of some Southern school boards in refusing to upgrade Negro schools forced the N.A.A.C.P. lawyers into their decision to make an outright attack on legal segregation. In 1950 N.A.A.C.P. lawyers initiated a series of suits around the country attacking the quality of education in primary and secondary schools.

The parlor carpet troubled even her, but she would not pledge herself to buy another until she had first tried her powers of persuasion upon the doctor, who, as she expected, refused outright. "He knew the carpet was faded," he said, "but 'twas hardly worn at all, and 'twas a maxim of his to make things last as long as possible."

But I tell you, after all, to be born with character is a wonderful start." "Indeed it is, Mother," and Molly laughed outright at the well- aimed compliment that sprang back and hit the mother "square in the eyes." With her arm thrown around her mother's neck, Molly admitted her own inheritance in that line had been guaranteed.

He laughed outright close on this admonition, and asked Elizabeth if she expected him to make a frame for this picture to hang opposite Chalons. "No," she answered, "I am going to take it with me." "Where now?" asked the parents in one breath. "Oh, home, Chalons." This reply seemed to merit some consideration, by the way the eyes of Adolphus and Pauline regarded their child.

The men in the rear pressed forward to support their comrades, when a hot fire was suddenly opened on them from the forest along their right flank. Then there was a panic; some fled outright, and the whole column recoiled. The van now became the rear, and all the force of the enemy rushed upon it, shouting and screeching.