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"Whatever is the matter with you, Roger?" ejaculated Harry somewhat crossly; "you nearly broke my back coming down like that." Then, as he saw Roger rubbing his face, his tone changed, and he enquired anxiously, "What is it, old fellow; are you hurt?" "No; not much, that is," rejoined his friend.
Here, by means of rubbing and chafing, with a little more buffeting, he was restored to some degree of heat; on seeing which Meetuck uttered a quiet grunt, and immediately set about preparing supper. "I do believe I've been asleep," said Fred, rising and stretching himself vigorously as the bright flame of a tin lamp shot forth and shed a yellow lustre on the white walls.
The time seemed long, but probably it was not half a minute from the time Tom dived into the bog till the young engineer seized him by the legs and dragged him into the boat, to sit upon the bottom, gasping, spitting, and rubbing the ooze from his eyes.
How thoughtfully, how humanely and tolerantly he had judged their fellow-guests, as they sat at one of these tables, rubbing shoulders with the worst or, as he had laughingly insisted, the best of an odd fraternity! The recollection was keen as a knife when Max entered the eating-room, sat down and ordered a drink with the supreme indifference of disillusion.
Do not think I do not love and reverence my brothers, mind you!" she added almost fiercely, rubbing with her lustre apron the table there was nothing to rub from save its polish. "Oh! they are big men and far-travelled men, and they have seen the wonderful sights.
With the languor of a handsome man spoilt by too much love, he fondled the children without haste, then went into the study and said, rubbing his hands: "I've not come to stay long, my friends. I'm going to Petersburg to-morrow. They've promised to transfer me to another town." He was staying at the Dresden Hotel. A friend who was often at the Laptevs' was Ivan Gavrilitch Yartsev.
The American had backed against the buffet but his general dignity suffered a reverse from the fact that his first thought was of remedy rather than revenge. He had picked up a piece of butter and was rubbing it vigorously on his burnt cheek. In the shadows Mr. Van Diest was shaking his head in sorrowful disapproval of the whole proceedings. For the life of him Richard could not help laughing.
What's smatter? exclaimed Spigot rushing in, rubbing his eyes with one hand, and holding a block tin candlestick in the other. 'Don't know how to do them here, sir, snapped Spigot. 'Devilled turkey's leg though you do, you rascal! rejoined Jack, doubling his fists and putting himself in posture. 'Beg pardon, sir, replied Spigot, 'but the cook, sir, is gone to bed, sir.
He then tried to make fire in the hut and burn it, so that the murder might not be known; but the squeaking noise of rubbing the sticks awakened a servant, and the murderer was detected. Both he and his wife were thrown into the river; the latter having "known of her husband's intentions, and not revealing them."
I said I had handed in my resignation and I wasn't one of them any more, and they might send somebody who would better represent them, and they said they hadn't accepted my resignation and a lot of stuff, but they sent off a committee to find Jane, and they tried to think up something quickly to say to her, and they got Eunice Brice to crying and made Eugenia real mad so the powder came off her nose from rubbing it so much, and I came away.
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