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Then he replied steadily: "I haven't touched a drop of drink since that steamer piled up on that coral reef." "Three months, at the outside," rejoined Mr. Leslie. "You've been known to go half a year. But always " "Yes, always before this try," said Blake. "It's different, though, now, with the backing of two such ladies!" "Two?" queried Mr. Leslie sharply.
The day cars were piled across the track beyond; the threes Pullmans, smashed and heaped on top of one another, hung on the edge of the broken bridge. Gordon, with the two women and children, finally found a man who had some sense a fat drummer seated on his sample-cases calmly putting on his shoes by the light of the burning cars.
Every tree on the whole line of the Boulevard was felled and every lamp-post overthrown; a barricade of immense strength rose at the end of the Rue Richelieu; the troops offered no resistance; they piled their arms, lighted their fires and bivouacked close beside the barricades.
In addition to the quaint low house of clapboards and old ship-timber, with its sloping roof and little toy windows, so unlike his own at Yardley, and smoked ceilings, there was a scrap heap piled up and scattered over the yard which in itself was a veritable treasure-house. Here were rusty chains and wooden figure-heads of broken-nosed, blind maidens and tailless dolphins.
It was a current and a true saying of the times that nobody could honestly acquire a million dollars. You yourselves can not condemn the human cormorants who piled up these heaps of ill-gotten gains more bitterly than did the public opinion of their own time. The execration and contempt of the community followed the great money-getters to their graves, and with the best of reason.
Long before the time for the dance a line of four immense fires burned on each side of the avenue where the dance was to take place, and Navajo men and women clad in their bright colored blankets and all their rare beads and silver encircled each fire. Logs were piled 5 or 6 feet high.
Besides, if I had if such elusive filaments fascinated me how could I, well-known in person and name, enter upon such a scene without prejudice to our mutual compact?" Among the boxes piled upon Mrs. Doolittle's table boxes of finished work, most of them addressed and ready for delivery was one on which could be seen the name of shall I mention it?" "Not mine? You don't mean mine?
And it was really a matter of no consequence. If he came home a bit elevated, he went to bed, and two hours afterwards he was all right again. It was now the warm time of the year. One June afternoon, a Saturday when there was a lot of work to get through, Gervaise herself had piled the coke into the stove, around which ten irons were heating, whilst a rumbling sound issued from the chimney.
He built a boat, had it hauled down to the Platte at Denver, piled in his provisions and effects, launched it in the river and started down stream, hoping to reach Omaha in that way. All went well for about a hundred miles, when the water grew so shallow that he was stranded amid the small islands and shifting sands.
Before the sun rose, the heavens were covered with hard-looking clouds, of a deep blue and black cast, fading away to white at their edges, and in form resembling the long, rolling waves of a heavy sea but with this difference, that the clouds were perfectly motionless, piled in long curved lines, one above the other, and so remained until four o'clock in the afternoon.
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