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It brought an obnoxious person back, and roughly, into the warm memory of Harriet Floyd's presence, and gentle, selfless tenderness. He ground his teeth in agony.
"At the worst, we can back out of this, Millie," said she. "Of course we can," Millie said, suppressing frightened tears with some courage. The water was washing roughly against the running boards; to an onlooker the car would have had the appearance of being afloat, hub-deep, at sea. Slowly, slowly, slowly they were still moving. The car stopped short. The engine was dead.
She looked down, and saw two large ostriches running round quickly in narrow circles; she had never seen these creatures before, great, coarse, clumsy-looking birds with curious wings that looked as if they had been clipped, and the birds themselves had the appearance of having been roughly used.
But by far the most important, in the historical period, are the two forms known as Oligarchy and Democracy; and the reason of their importance is that they corresponded roughly to government by the rich and government by the poor. "Rich and poor," says Aristotle, "are the really antagonistic members of a state. Pol. Section 7. Faction and Anarchy.
The horses belonging to the bar, the judge, and witnesses, were tied to temporary racks set up roughly in the road; by which is to be understood, a forest path, nearly knee-deep in mud and slime. There was an hotel in this place, which, like all hotels in America, had its large dining-room for the public table.
"Say a week, and say it emphatically," approved her brother, and trotted off to his study, leaving the ladies to compose, with Mrs. Smith's help, a note that would not be so cordial that Brother would forbid its being sent, but that would nevertheless give a hint of their kindly feeling to the forlorn child, so roughly cared for by her strange uncle.
The dusk was thickening fast; Burr and the two young men who were working with him were hurrying to finish the decorations before candlelight when Richard Hautville came in. Burr started when he saw him. He looked so like his sister in the dim light that he thought for a moment she was there. Richard did not notice him at all. He hustled by him roughly and approached the other two young men.
"You mean she still thinks of Marsham?" "Of nothing else," she said, impetuously "of nothing else!" He frowned and winced. She resumed: "It is like her so like her! isn't it?" Her soft pitiful eyes, into which the tears had sprung, pressed the question on him. "I thought there was a cousin Miss Drake?" he said, roughly. Mrs. Colwood hesitated. "It is said that all that is broken off."
He forced open the case, and saw, roughly scratched on the inside, the letter D. He now recognised it; he remembered having once fixed a glass in this very watch for Dollond, about a month before the latter's disappearance. Continuing his search Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys.
I'd come home, and she'd see what I'd been doing, and she'd up with her sleeves, and " In horrible pantomime, the boy lifted the cuff of his shirt, and pressed his right thumb against the wrist of his other arm. At the memory of it, he gave a shiver and, with a blow, roughly struck the cuff into place. "God!" he muttered, "I couldn't stand it. I begged, and begged her not. I cried.
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