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Aunt Olivia began to rock a gentle sway back and forth. She was sixty, but this was the first time she had ever rocked a chi a doll. So she rocked for a little, scarcely knowing it. When she found out, a wave of soft pink dyed her face and flowed upward redly to her hair. "Well!" Duty jibed, mocking her. "Don't say a word!" cried poor Aunt Olivia. "I'll put her right back."
He clinched the bench-rail and rose slowly to his feet. Marion sat motionless in the hickory chair; the sun was shining in her face and her hands were folded in her lap. Dicksie rocked on the porch. In the shadow of the house the man was mending the saddle.
He was off by morning light, and several times that day he heard of her, twice from people who had seen her pass both going and coming, and he knew it must be she when they said she rocked her arms as she walked. Oh, he knew why she rocked her arms! Once he thought he had found her.
Other men, less fine, consider an ideal a sort of disease and they are usually a certain specific. But, after all, men are as women make them. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy swayed empires and rocked thrones. There is no woman who does not hold within her little hands some man's achievement, some man's future, and his belief in woman and God.
She'll have her heels through before you know where you are. She's a demon to kick, is Scarum." Scarum had spared the splash-board this time, but she was going furiously, and the little dog-cart rocked from side to side. Mrs. Nevill Tyson rose to her feet. "Strikes me you can't drive a little bit," said she. "Please sit down, Mrs. Tyson." But Mrs.
Black robed from head to foot, with hair and beard untrimmed and uncombed, and face and hands foul with dirt, he rocked to and fro and groaned. From time to time he ran his fingers through beard and hair, and uttered the measured cry of the Greek mourners.
If discord and party strife shall succeed in separating it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand in the end by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked, and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory and on the very spot of its origin. Our platform is before the country. Perhaps it is lacking in novelty.
"You are a brave and determined man." "What did you mean by accusing me of the murder?" "I did not mean it when I accused you; I only wished to learn how you would receive the accusation." The detective led the way to a little cove where a boat rocked in the tide. "Can you row?" "Yes." "There is a boat; get over to the mainland as quick as you can." "Will you not go?" "No." "Why not?"
She was sitting up, still held safely by the coil of rope, and pointing excitedly behind him. "Oh, see there! Look where I point isn't that land?" The raft rocked as he swung his body hastily about, and gazed intently in the direction indicated.
Loose ends of rope stood out stiffly horizontal, and, when a whipping gave, the loose end frazzled and blew away. Mulhall touched one and then another and pointed to the shore. The grass-sheds had disappeared, and Parlay's house rocked drunkenly, Because the wind blew lengthwise along the atoll, the house had been sheltered by the miles of cocoanut trees.
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