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That individual would reply: "All right. Attention! LEFT SPOON!!" and the whole line would at once flop over on their left sides. The feet of the row that slept along the east wall on the floor below us were in a line with the edge of the outer door, and a chalk line drawn from the crack between the door and the frame to the opposite wall would touch, say 150 pairs of feet.
"Well, so I do, but I intend to talk to you the next time a great deal: for you are neither so solemn, nor so stupid, nor so pert as you look." "Ah, Miss Bunion, how I pine for that 'next time' to come," Pen said with an air of comical gallantry: But we must return to the day, and the dinner at Paternoster Row.
There was not a man in the party but believed that with a little practice he could stand in a row, especially if there were others along; there was not a man but believed he could bow without tripping on his coat tail and breaking his neck; in a word, we came to believe we were equal to any item in the performance except that complicated smile.
But the children who are too young to spend the summer at the sæters find plenty to do at home, and they learn almost as soon as they can toddle that there is work for everyone. Quite small boys and girls manage to do a good day's haymaking, and they can row a boat or drive a carriole before they have reached their teens.
"Have you been here with them twice?" "Yes, come there." He meant the North West side of the isle, so to this spot I took him the next day. He knew the place, and told me he was there once with a score of men. To let me know this, he put a score of stones all of a row, and made me count them. "Are not the boats lost on your shore now and then?"
The concert began at two-thirty, and Thea was in her seat in the Auditorium at ten minutes after two a fine seat in the first row of the balcony, on the side, where she could see the house as well as the orchestra. She had been to so few concerts that the great house, the crowd of people, and the lights, all had a stimulating effect.
For the best of it was that Captain S- seemed constitutionally incapable of giving his officers a definite order to shorten sail; and so that extraordinarily vague row would go on till at last it dawned upon them both, in some particularly alarming gust, that it was time to do something.
When he had got this pen ready he cut into the bark of one tree: Shipwreck, Sunday, 10th of September, 1875. He made seven cuts in a row for the seven days in the week. The first cut was longer than the others. This was to represent the Sunday. At sundown every day he made a new cut in the bark. The other tree he called the month tree.
He had intended to say "when they are not interfered with," but deemed it more prudent to say, "when occasion requires." "We could easily have stopped the row, sir," said Stafford, "if we had been allowed to do so." "I have no doubt of it," said the master. "I am glad to have had this little explanation. The honour of our house is of common interest to all of us."
The pit is fitted up with seats, of course, but you do not sit down there without paying. The first row of boxes, which is on a level with the heads of people in the pit, is well enough, but rank and fashion take a loftier flight, and sit in the second tier.
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