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"Beautiful singing!" she said, without looking at me After a considerable pause I said, awkwardly, "You know, Mrs. Levinsky, I dreamed of you last night!" "Did you?" "Aren't you interested to know something more about it?" "I dreamed of telling you that you are a good-looking lady," I pursued, with fast-beating heart "What has got into that fellow?" she asked of the kerosene-stove.
Some present, very justly regarding it as an uncommon literary production, had been anticipating all sorts of miracles therefrom; and were, therefore, much touched at this neglect. "Well, men," began Wilson again after a short pause, "although you all look hearty enough, I'm told there are some sick among you. Now then, Mr.
And please! no more talk at all!" "But just a word you're not angry?" She shook her head very slightly. "And you do know that I'm your friend your solid, twenty-four-carat friend?" After a moment's pause, she made answer, almost in a whisper "Yes be my friend if it amuses you," and led the way with precipitate steps down the winding road.
The skin has by this time attained an exquisite sensibility, and answers to these changes of temperature with thrills of the purest physical pleasure. In fact, the whole frame seems purged of its earthy nature and transformed into something of a finer and more delicate texture. After a pause, the attendant makes his appearance with a large wooden bowl, a piece of soap, and a bunch of palm-fibres.
And it all lies in your own power. You can, if you will, say yes, or ". He pauses. The pause is eloquent, and full of deep entreaty. "Or no," supplies she calmly. "True! You," with a half defiant, half saucy glance, "are beginning to learn that a guardian cannot control one altogether." "I don't think I ever controlled you, Perpetua." "N o! Perhaps not. But then you tried to. That's worse."
She was to remain to learn the wisdom of the white man, as the little bird stays in the nest until it is strong enough to fly." Another pause ensued, for the reply of the Sagamore had furnished pregnant matter for thought, until the silence was broken by the voice of Winthrop. "Why did Sassacus attack my people, and kill two of my men?"
If clear he called out: 'Pleasant day! three times over, with a pause between each sentence and a long-drawn-out Yes at the close; or, if it rained, he said 'Rainy day' or 'Windy day, describing the weather, whatever it might be, always with an emphatic Yes. "One day he talked to me, but it was not about the weather. Things had gone wrong with me all the morning.
Billy hesitated. "Goin' 'ome," he vociferated. "S'elp me " "One moment," said Brett. "Surely you have some idea of the appearance of the rascal who pulled your horse over?" The man was alternately surveying the cheque and looking into the face of his benefactor. "I dunno," he cried, after a pause. "I feel a bit mixed. This gentleman 'ere 'as acted as square as ever man did.
Another pause. The tobacco, so much stronger than any George had been accustomed to, combined with the cold, made him feel nervous and miserable. "When I was a boy," resumed Lee, "there were two young brothers made it up to rob the 'squire's house, down at Gidleigh.
"Lionel tells me sometimes I am so changed since I went out, that even he would scarcely have known me. I do not think I am so changed as all that. I had a great deal of vexation and trouble, and I grew thin. But I shall soon be well again now." A pause. "You ascertained no certain news of John Massingbird, I hear," observed Lady Verner. "Not any.
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