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When at last he found words, they and his tone were alike harsh, almost violent. "Do you think," he said, "that I would stretch out the little finger of my hand to help you or him? You know very well that I would not. The pair of you, in my opinion, were long since outside the pale of consideration from any living being. If he is lost, so much the better. If he is dead, so much the better still."
Look there, now," he said, as he ushered me into a pair of parlors, "look at those long south windows, the sun lies there nearly all day long; see what a capital corner there is for a lounging-chair; fancy us, Chris, with our books or our paper, spread out loose and easy, and Sophie gliding in and out like a sunbeam. I'm getting poetical, you see.
Some of the little girls we went with were richer than we, but after all one's mother can wear only one pair of earrings at a time, and our mother had beautiful gold ones that hung down on her neck. As we grew older, my parents gave us more than physical comfort and social standing to rejoice in. They gave us, or set out to give us, education, which was less common than gold earrings in Polotzk.
The age of Shakespeare was richer than our own, only because it was lucky enough to have such a pair of eyes as his to see it, and such a gift of speech as his to report it. And so there is always room and occasion for the poet, who continues to be, just as he was in the early time, nothing more nor less than a "seer."
There, in a deserted by-street, Michael drew up the horses and gave them in charge to a blighted shoe-black; and the pair descending from the cart, whereon they had figured so incongruously, set forth on foot for the decisive scene of their adventure. For the first time Michael displayed a shadow of uneasiness. "Are my whiskers right?" he asked. "It would be the devil and all if I was spotted."
By this time they had taken off their wooden "rockers" and were hastening home to tell their mother the good news. "Oh! I know!" cried Gretel in a sprightly tone. "You can do this. You can get a pair a little too small for you, and too big for me, and we can take turns and use them. Won't that be fine?" Gretel clapped her hands again. Poor Hans!
These had been run in, and the natives could be seen loading them. The Major examined the work through a pair of field glasses. "You are doing well," he said presently; "I have seen several of them fall, and there is a lot of confusion among them; they will soon get tired of that game."
Instead, the pair had slipped stealthily away, until they had gotten out of the immediate zone of the hot firing. Then they hid under some bushes. "An hour ago I'd have felt like a sneak, not standing by the gang any better," whispered Jeff uneasily. "Same here," Rafe admitted. "In fact, I'm wondering whether I acted straight in running off like this."
Iron or steel, in the shape of needles, a key, a knife, a pair of tongs, an open pair of scissors, or in any other shape, if placed in the cradle, secured the desired end. In Bulgaria a reaping-hook is placed in a corner of the room for the same purpose. I shall not stay now to discuss the reason why supernatural beings dread and dislike iron.
'You are very good, said the doctor, taking a pair. 'Well, sir, as I was saying I was called up to attend that case at about half-past one o'clock. Cake and wine, eh? Which is port? Thank you. Mr Pecksniff took some also. 'At about half-past one o'clock in the morning, sir, resumed the doctor, 'I was called up to attend that case.
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