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He was carrying a hatchet and an ax, and he looked tired, though it was early in the day. "I guess Cousin Harriet doesn't know how hard working on the alkali patch is," he murmured softly. "She isn't like mother:" The boy's head dropped, and a sob escaped him. "I wish mother hadn't died;" he said chokingly. "Most every boy has a mother."
Before me, fronting the porch entrance, was a patch of bare burial-ground, a line of low stone wall, and a strip of lonely brown hill, with the sunset clouds sailing heavily over it before the strong, steady wind. No living creature was visible or audible no bird flew by me, no dog barked from the sexton's cottage.
"He's a dead un, lads, and been here for days." Mastering the feeling of shrinking which had come over him, Joey went down upon one knee, amidst the awful silence which prevailed, and stretched forth a hand to draw the figure out into a patch of sunlight, but a shout in chorus from his companions made him snatch back his hand with a violent start. "Yah! don't touch him," they all cried.
"We can't do anything but wait for news of them. And no news is always good news, you know." "Just because it has to be!" retorted Cora. "But, girls, positively, I believe the weather is clearing! Yes, there's a blue patch of sky. Oh, if this storm should be over!" Her two chums came and stood by her at the casement. Off to the west the dark and sullen sky did seem to be clearing.
For a terrible joke it was, seeing that he no longer intended to discharge the errand which had brought him in such haste to the palace. "Faith, I deserve it!" was the flippant answer, and he turned again to the mirror to adjust a patch on the left side of his chin.
Yet, if she did love a youth, and for his sake had climbed to the spring, he must doubtless dwell in the reddish house, standing on a beautiful level patch of ground on the right of the brook, between the sea and the pool; for she glanced toward it again and again, and, except the servants, no one lived under its roof save the aged steward Jason, and Phaon, her uncle's son.
The skipper took one of the small lamps from the binnacle, and, holding it aloft, walked boldly up to the cause of alarm. In the little patch of light we saw a ghastly black-bearded man, dripping with water, regarding us with unwinking eyes, which glowed red in the light of the lamp. "Where did you come from?" asked the skipper. The figure shook its head.
When she woke the younger children were playing about on the floor in their night-clothes, and little Pet was sitting in a square of sunshine, intent on one of his shoes. He was too young to know how poor and squalid his surroundings were the patch of sunshine flung on the floor glorified it all. He little animal was happy.
It afterward split a coral patch in two at the Keeling Islands, and did not receive a blemish. Better timber for a ship than pasture white oak never grew. The breast-hooks, as well as all the ribs, were of this wood, and were steamed and bent into shape as required.
However, I've done my dooty, that's one comfort; and now, I suppose I shall have to patch it up as best I can. 'I wouldn't! said Ida hotly. 'Ah, Ida, my dear, you don't know what a mother won't do for her children. A sigh that was often reiterated as Mrs. Morton composed a letter to her brother-in-law, with some hints from Ida on the spelling, and some from Mr. Rollstone on the address.
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