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Apply your finger to the ball, and set it running round. The children will immediately change from saying, "There it is," to "There it goes, there it goes." When they have repeated "There it goes" long enough to impress it on their memory, stop the ball; the children will probably say, "Now it stops, now it stops."
If you'll let me know when that work's going to be ready, I'll send the janitor up for it." He smiled deprecatingly. "You're not afraid of me, by any chance, are you?" he asked. Her eyes glowed with contempt as she looked him up and down. "Afraid of you, sir!" she repeated. "I should say not! I've met all sorts of men and I know something about them." "Then sit down again, please," he begged.
They're all gone! they're all gone!" he repeated again and again. "No one but us two and the dead captain aboard the craft." "What shall we do, then?" asked Bill, after a long silence. Hobby looked at his companion earnestly before speaking. "Trust in God, and do our duty," he said, at length. "Yes, but what is our duty, Robby?"
The Duchess and her two children seated themselves upon the trunk of a fallen tree and listened to the music till it ceased. A gentle wind sighed softly through the leaves of the trees, and merrily flowed the near-by brook. As the nightingale repeated its song, they all listened intently. When the song was ended, the Duchess said: "I would give twenty pounds if I had such a bird in my garden.
The unexampled atrocities there were repeated in the other large towns with like circumstances of barbarity. A species of fanaticism ruled and raged in the land. The mania, if one may so call it, reached its height in such chiefs of the revolutionary party as Marat, Billaud, and Robespierre. In Marat especially, the mastery gained by one idea almost amounted to mental disorder.
Brown had no answer ready, that is, no relevant answer. "You go to bed and shut the door," he repeated, turning to go. "All right, I will. But don't you forget our agreement." "I have no intention of forgetting it." "What ARE you goin' to do?" "Do? What do you mean?" "I mean what are you goin' to do now that things down here's changed, and you and me ain't alone, same as we was?" "I don't know.
"I say," shouted the horseman at the top of his lungs, "can you direct me to any kind of a habitation, where I may take shelter?" "Speak louder," shouted Tom; "I can't hear you for the wind." The other, in a voice still more elevated, repeated the question, "I want to get under the roof of some human habitation, if there be one left standing.
I took his hand in mine, at which, thinking it to be a caress, he smiled with a brightness of pleasure that came near disarming my resolve. But I trod the weakness down. 'The wind, I repeated; 'and yet I think it was this hand, holding it up, 'that had first locked me in. The lad shook visibly, but answered never a word. 'Well, said I, 'I am a stranger and a guest.
"Where is he, then?" demanded the squire suspiciously. "He has left town." "Left town?" repeated the squire and Joe Tucker, in dismay. "Where is he gone!" "He's probably ten miles away by this time," answered Frank, enjoying their perplexity. "I guess you'd better wait till he comes back."
"Will you tell me, on any terms, where the Lady of Lone is to be found?" he inquired. "Humph! I like that! Aren't you a sharp? You can't call her the duchess, and you won't call her Miss Levison, so you call her the Lady of Lone, anyway!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown, with a chuckling laugh. "But, will you, for any price, tell me where she has gone?" repeated the duke.
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