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The minister shook him by the hand, and sat down cheerfully, and soon put daylight through the "sum." Then Sam got up, and feeling down in the bottom of his pocket, he took out a quarter of a dollar. "Would that pay you, sir? It's all I've got, and all I will get in a year, I guess. I hope it's enough." "Keep it! keep it!" said Mr.
The clock has almost got round to the half-hour again, and there is only the date and a wrong one at that. He has to make the letter credible in the eyes of the censor who sits by the window. "My dear Miss Wetherell, I have come to the conclusion" two sheets torn up, or thrust into Mr. Worthington's pocket. By this time words have begun to have a colorless look.
Before me and to the left, the desert stretched beyond my vision, but far to the right I could see a lift in the sky-line, giving hope of the forest to which my hostess had directed me. I sat down, and sought in my pocket the half-loaf I had brought with me then first to understand what my hostess had meant concerning it.
"Much better, thank you, sir. My head is quite clear again." "Clear enough to make out a foreign letter?" He took one from his pocket and put it in her hand. An anxious look flitted across her face, and she glanced rapidly over the contents, then crumpled the sheet nervously in her fingers. "What is the matter now?" "He is coming home. They will all be here in November."
When I had reached a fork tolerably high, and where he could see me, I settled myself, took out a letter, which fortunately was in my pocket, read it with the greatest deliberation, the monkey watching me all the time, and finally I proceeded to fold it neatly in all its creases.
You dare to tell me only one?" "There was another, only Magglin put it in his pocket." "Got a dozen hid somewhere," cried the General. "Where have you hid them, you dog? Stuffed in some burrow, I suppose. Where are they, sir?" "I told you," I said sharply, for his doubt of my word made me feel hot and angry. "We only caught those two. I shouldn't tell you a lie, sir." "Humph!
He drew from his inner pocket the envelope which the Judge had given him. Mr. Lincoln ripped it open. A document fell out, and a letter. He put the document in his tall hat, which was upside down on the floor. As he got deeper into the letter, he pursed his mouth, and the lines of his face deepened in a smile. Then he looked up, grave again.
For a half minute he waited. Finally the door swung briskly inward. Like a panther, as quickly and as noiselessly, Orde sprang forward. A short but decisive struggle ensued. In less than ten seconds Orde had pinioned Newmark's arms to his side where he held them immovable with one of his own. The other hand he ran down Newmark's right arm to the pocket.
But the broker entered the marshal's office, and they could not see him put the note in his pocket. "I am so glad I got it!" exclaimed Katy. "I doubt whether you could have recovered it if I had not used my influence in your favor," remarked Simon, complacently. "I went to his office, and assured him my friend the mayor had already taken the matter in hand.
The old man was so agitated that he could not restrain his tears, and Eulenböck drew an immense yellow silk handkerchief out of his pocket, to dry his dark red face with theatrical pathos.
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