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None of us remembered going to bed. We decided you must have carried us there, but you sure looked dead." "Uhuh?" came Arcot's unenthusiastic rejoinder. "Boy, is he sleepy!" said Wade as he drifted into the room. "Use a wet cloth and some cold water, Morey." A brisk application of cold water brought Arcot more nearly awake.

'You cannot remember this rebel's name, can you? 'It was Daniel something that's all I know. A long, fine whistle was Kearney's rejoinder, and after a second or two he said, 'I can trust you, Gorman; and I may tell you they may be not so great fools as I took them for.

"Lord Hartledon," was the grave rejoinder, "I am unable to give you advice in this. Your conduct is indefensible." "Don't 'Lord Hartledon' me: I won't stand it. Carr?" "Well?" "If you bring up against me a string of reproaches lasting until night will that mend matters? I am conscious of possessing but one true friend in the world, and that's yourself. You must stand by me."

Eloise said she did not remember being born, nor did she know the Pope or the King. "I was a little girl when I left Italy, and do not remember much, except that I was happier there than I have ever been since." "I want to know! I s'pose you've had trouble in your family?" was Mrs. Biggs's quick rejoinder, as she scented some private history which she meant to find out.

Itself is not quoted by anyone alive, but Charlotte Bronte's rejoinder adds one to our little treasury of her incomparable pages. If they were twenty, they are twenty-one by the addition of this, written in a long-neglected letter and saved for us by Mr.

"It did belong to old Sam Curtis, but he's moved away, down to Alabama," some one answered. "Some darky may live in it now, eh?" said the first voice. "Perhaps it's empty, and these tarnation spies are in it," was the rejoinder in a lower tone. The men moved their horses closer to the house, which they quickly surrounded.

"And so you have been staying at the Wood House?" began Mrs. Godfrey as she handed Malcolm his tea. "Elizabeth Templeton's letter this morning almost took my breath away. What a small world it is after all, Mr. Herrick!" "Life treads on life," murmured Malcolm, "and heart on heart;" "We press too close in church or mart To keep a dream or grave apart." "How true!" was the quiet rejoinder. "Mrs.

It's his business to unite broken bones, not hands and hearts. But, Walt, if you are really resolved on the thing, there will, no doubt, be an opportunity to carry out your intention in a correct and legitimate manner. You must be patient, however, and wait till you come across either a priest or a Protestant clergyman." "Doggoned ef I care which," is the rejoinder of the giant.

"Narborough wasn't perfect," cried the old lady. "If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder. "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. You will never ask me to dinner again, after saying this, I am afraid, Lady Narborough; but it is quite true." "Of course it is true, Lord Henry.

The valet de chambre succeeded just then, after some little difficulty, in drawing his master into the ante-chamber to whisper to him: "The neighbors are all at their windows, complaining of the racket, sir." "If noise alarms them, why don't they lay down straw before their doors?" was Taillefer's rejoinder.