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"You got any girls?" said Peter. "Care for niggers?" "I love all women," said the stranger, refolding his arms about his knees. "Oh, you do, do you?" said Peter. "Well, I'm pretty sick of them. I had bother enough with mine," he said genially, warming his hands by the fire, and then interlocking the fingers and turning the palms towards the blaze as one who prepares to enjoy a good talk.

"I'd have married you," said Ellen, not without bitterness, "if you'd been an anti-Suffragist." The situation was so plainly presenting itself to her as being in some way dreadful that he anxiously held her with his eyes. She stammered, folding and refolding her hands. "It'll be queer, living in a house with you, won't it?"

The sailing list of the Mauretania fails to give the name of Miss Blessington on the date named by Mr. Shaynon. Refolding the paper, P. Sybarite returned it without comment. "Well?" George demanded anxiously. "Well?" "Ain't you hep yet?" George betrayed some little exasperation in addition to his disappointment. "Hep?" P. Sybarite iterated wonderingly.

"A community admirable in many ways," he murmured, refolding the page. "Does he think he is insulting me!" Whatever degree of influence, Jesuitical or other, Lindsay was inclined to concede to Stephen's intermediary, he was compelled to recognise without delay that Captain Filbert, in the exercise of her profession, had not neglected to acquire a knowledge of defensive operations.

Send me one word, Sadie 'forgiven' and I shall leave my country with a lighter heart than I have known for years. Katherine lifted moist eyes, to her friend after reading and refolding the letter. "Phillip says the change in him is wonderful he saw him, you know, when he was at home for Christmas," she observed. "Shall you send him the word he asks for, Sadie?"

She gave these answers, with her attention apparently absorbed in folding and refolding the frilling on her nightgown. It was plainly necessary to rouse her by some reference to those worldly interests which she still had at heart. "Do you know, love," I said, "I had an odd fancy, yesterday, about Mr. Bruff?

He was invariably found seated by the side of his little trunk, folding and refolding his clothes, laying them now lengthwise, now crosswise, the happiest of mortals. Our next step was to teach him to be useful.

Archie, taking and refolding the wills as the Governor finished reading them, marveled at this unexpected revelation of his friend's profession let fall in the most casual fashion, as was the Governor's way.

I stopped in the darkness and silence. "Neither of them saw me, and I distinctly heard Mademoiselle Stangerson repeat, as she was refolding the paper: 'The presbytery has lost nothing of its charm, nor the garden its brightness! It was said in a tone at once mocking and despairing, and was followed by a burst of such nervous laughter that I think her words will never cease to sound in my ears.

His hard brain was in no way affected by the liquor that he had drunk. He sat down on his bed, mechanically folding and refolding the letter. The reference to "Mrs. Turner" produced no impression on him of any sort: no person of that name, common as it was, happened to be numbered on the list of his friends or his customers.