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Pierson, feeling that he was in their way, tried to hide himself behind his paper; when he looked again, the soldier had taken off his tunic and cap and was leaning out of the window. The woman, on the seat's edge, sniffing and wiping her face, met his glance with resentful eyes, then, getting up, she pulled the man's sleeve. "Sit dahn; don't 'ang out o' there."
Maxton hired it out one day the term before last, and he and I and Collis rode to Chatton. It isn't meant to carry three; but the seat's very wide, and they squeezed me in between them.
'Ah, weel, said the woman with a sigh, 'as I said afore, I'st be reet sorry when Miss Charlotte's seat's gone. But yo conno ha brawlin i' church. William's reet enough there.
It's really a very comfortable way of traveling about and the wagon was fastidiously fitted up by my distinguished predecessor. The seat's padded and plenty broad enough to sleep on." Mr. Poynter presently departed to the music-machine for a peace offering in the shape of a bow and some arrows upon which, he said, he'd been working for days.
You come and make me get up, all by yourself." Matt looked at the brown skin and the strong tough features of the obstinate boy a long minute, as if making up his mind. "Oh, well," he said, "I suppose if you're a guest you must do as you please." "Since you're so nice about it," said Glen, "the seat's yours. Do what you want with it."
"It was, it was..." I cried; and there stopped, all confused, feeling myself growing red under her lazy glance. "I know it was," she answered. She set her elbows on the seat's tall back until I could feel her sweet breath upon my brow. "And should I bear you a resentment, then? My poor Agostino, have I no heart to feel? Am I but a cold, reasoning intelligence like that thing my husband? O God!
I replied that as far as I was concerned, I thought I could convey the desired impression without stooping to deceit at all, and prepared to make myself comfortable. A few seconds later another man got into the carriage. He also made room for himself among the luggage and sat down. "I am afraid that seat's taken, sir," said B. when he had recovered his surprise at the man's coolness.
And besides, I always do enjoy ridin'. You could go, too, Miss Dorcas, but the sulky seat's too narrer for three. You can set in the settin' room till we get back. 'Twon't take us long. Don't say another word; I'm A-GOIN'." The number of reasons given by Mr. Bangs one after the other, to prove that it would be quite impossible for him to be Mrs.
His polite care not to embarrass her shut the door. "I mean, just now," she resumed, "while our seat's so shaky, you know." "Ah, yes," said he half-absently. She leant back in her chair and looked at him. "I think," she said, "you look as if you did care, about Mr. Blair or about something else. I wanted to tell you that I don't agree in the least with the criticisms on you."
"Why, my lord, I've been cramped up in this 'ere narrer box for fourteen hours, and the seat's that hard and the back so straight up that now I gets out on it I ain't got a leg to stand on." "I'm sorry for the chair," I said. He was a very thick-set man, and the whole of the jury burst into a laugh. Then he went on, with tears in his eyes,
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