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Such was the force of the inspiration of Bootlbac the drum-beater, caused by the burning of the Identical. Now, the four Kings, when they had mastered their wits, gazed in silence on Shagpat, and sighed and shook their heads, and were as they that have swallowed a potent draught and ponder sagely over the gulp.
I'm all attention. Throwing himself back in his arm-chair, and looking at the fire, with now and then a glance at Mark, who at such times nodded his head sagely, to express his profound interest and attention. Martin ran over the chief points in his history, to the same effect as he had related them, weeks before, to Mr Pinch.
Sure enough under that monstrous, immovable looking machine the Senior Surgeon's body lay rammed face-down deep, deep into the grass. It was the Little Girl who recovered her breath first. "I think he's dead!" she volunteered sagely. "His legs look awfully dead to me!" Only excitement was in the statement.
Nothing but a pax to grind!" It argued well for Titania's breadth of mind that she was not dismayed nor alarmed at the poor bookseller's anguished harangue. She surmised sagely that he was cleansing his bosom of much perilous stuff. In some mysterious way she had learned the greatest and rarest of the spirit's gifts toleration. "You can't help loving your country," she said.
Some hearts break quicker than others; Plummer hearts hold out splendidly, but in the end In the end Aunt Olivia went to see the minister and was closeted with him for a little. The minister's wife could hear them talking mostly the minister but she could not hear what they said. "It's come," she nodded, sagely. "I was sure it would.
This evening was no exception to the rule; for as she spoke the listeners saw before them a picture of her own lovely figure moving like a queen through the scenes which she described, her humble vassals following in her wake. Lilias must be cleverer than most people supposed, Nan told herself sagely, as she watched the face of the visitor, to see how he was impressed by the recitals.
"I'm a pretty looking old rhinoceros to be gettin' stuck on a kid, ain't I, 'Tonia?" said he. "Not verree good thing," agreed Antonia, sagely, "for too much old man to likee muchacha ." "You bet it ain't," said Dry Valley, grimly. "It's dum foolishness; and, besides, it hurts."
"Jim says if you had to Fletcherize on floating island you would starve to death and your teeth would get so used to missing a step on the stairs that they would never be able to deal with real victuals at all." "Mrs. Galway," Jack observed sagely, dropping his head on the back of the chair, "I see that it has occurred to you and Jim that it is an excellent world and full of excellent nonsense.
Lubin listened with keen interest to the boy's picturesque account of his experiences, and then remarked, sagely nodding his head: "I told you to be on the look-out, you know, Master Austin. Magpies don't perch on folks' window-sills for nothing. You'll believe me a little quicker next time, maybe." For once in his life Austin could think of nothing to say in reply.
"Snow will be good for the wheat," observed the druggist sagely. Young George Willard, who had nothing to do, was glad because he did not feel like working that day. The weekly paper had been printed and taken to the post office Wednesday evening and the snow began to fall on Thursday.
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