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Ise gittin to be skeered, I tell you. Hab for to keep mighty tight eye pon him noovers. Todder day he gib me slip fore de sun up and was gone de whole ob de blessed day. I had a big stick ready cut for to gib him d d good beating when he did come but Ise sich a fool dat I hadn't de heart arter all he look so berry poorly."
At last we were ushered into a room poorly furnished. It was not more than twelve feet square, and in the corner was an apology for a bed. On this was stretched an old man whose face was sunken, whose eyes were lusterless, whose hand was long and thin and bony, and whose voice was attenuated and pitched in a falsetto key.
The scenery is flat and uninteresting, and the banks but poorly wooded. Our travelers were therefore glad when they arrived at Rosario. The boys were disappointed at the aspect of the town, which, although a rising place, contained under a thousand inhabitants, and looked miserably poor and squalid after Buenos Ayres. Here they were met by a gentleman to whom Mr. Thompson had introduced Mr.
"To me it is curious and interesting, even exciting. Well, good-bye; my time is just up, I think." The doctor had gone into the house, and the cries died away. A moment after a woman in the dress of a nurse came quickly along the street, knocked, opened the door, and went in. I could see into the room, a poorly furnished one. A girl sat nursing a baby by the fire, and looked very much frightened.
"Very poorly, thank you," replied Sara, in that curious squeak with which all of Juliet's children answered their mother. "Well, that's too bad," said Juliet. "Where does it hurt you, Mrs. "In the stummick," squeaked Sara. Juliet shook her head soberly. "Dear me," she said. "Well, cheer up, Mrs. Grumble; what would you like to have?" "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
His impassioned references to their imperilled liberty, together with his evident apprehension of even greater danger than was then apparent, accorded so poorly with his halting counsel for moderation that it had the effect to arouse the minds of his hearers to resist such aggression even at every risk.
I can bear it no longer! And she fled from the room, leaving behind her a sensation of alarm and pity. Hubert and Mrs. Bentley stood looking at each other, both at a loss for words. At last he said 'That poor child will cry herself into her grave. Have you noticed how poorly she is looking? 'Not noticed! But you do not know half of it. It has been going on now a long time. You don't know half!
And, moreover, the die was cast. The thing might as well go. She would never hear from it again. The next day she found work in a crowded loft, poorly ventilated and heated, and came home to throw herself upon her bed, exhausted. Her landlady's children were making a terrible noise in the next room, and the racket shot pains through her head.
People were much more musical in England three hundred years ago than now. Nearly everybody could sing, or read music at sight: and a lady was thought very poorly educated if she could not "set" that is, write down a tune properly on hearing it played. Writing music they called "pricking" it.
Poorly informed, indeed, must be that American man or woman, boy or girl, who has not repeatedly read the events of those less than twenty-four hours of condensed history. They furnish the prelude to every account of the War of the Rebellion. No matter how vivid the scenes of later days, somewhere in the background we get these earlier details over again.
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