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It was so beautiful and so still that the children stood a moment among the rocks where the tarn emptied itself into the mountain stream to look at it. "It's just the place for a water cow, or a horse maybe," Jean whispered to Alan. "Sh!" was Alan's only reply. He seized Jean's hand and dragged hear down behind a rock and pointed toward the south.
The President and his Cabinet are coming to witness the ceremony." Esteban poised, petrified, upon his elbow, his face was a study. "What have you arranged?" he managed to inquire. "'Sh h!" Norine laid a finger upon his lips. "The guest of the Republic is to be married to-day. Dignitaries, magistrates, nabobs, are turning out in her honor.
There's nothing for it but to drop the box and collect it when we get out. 'Sh! did you hear something just now?" Lancaster started and caught his head a stunning blow on the sash. At the same time he inadvertently knocked the torch from the fingers of Bullard, who was going to flash it into the darkness behind them. "Idiot!" muttered Bullard. "Don't move till I fetch the box."
A portion of Tom's half of the cake was left; they divided and ate it. But they seemed hungrier than before. The poor morsel of food only whetted desire. By-and-by Tom said: "SH! Did you hear that?" Both held their breath and listened. There was a sound like the faintest, far-off shout. Instantly Tom answered it, and leading Becky by the hand, started groping down the corridor in its direction.
By-the-way, everybody I talked with to-day about leaving said, 'What's Lohr going to do with that girl? I told 'em I didn't know; do you? It seems you've been thicker'n I supposed." "I'm going to marry her," said Albert, calmly, but his voice sounded strained and hoarse. "What's that?" yelled Hartley. "Sh! don't raise the neighbors. I'm going to marry her." "Well, by jinks! When? Say, looky here!
Then Mary said, jerking at her sleeve: "Come on! We want to start in a minute. I've heard from the boys and I want to tell you. They've sent a whole sleighload of things out to the Minnetonka the boat that's frozen in, you know and music, and we'll have great fun. Sh! Miss Reynolds don't know. She's such a fuss-budget! If she knew the boys were coming well!"
Tiralla would not answer her; no, he would not tell. Who knows what more his wife might do to him if she heard it? He put his finger to his lips, while his eyes roved about in all directions, and said, "Sh!" But inquisitive Marianna would not let him go. Of whom was he so frightened? Of his wife? It seemed so.
People are so cruel and so hard, and things are so wrong. But you may tell your brother that he need not think of my cousin, Mary. Nothing ever would move her. H sh . Here they are. Do not say that I was crying." He was introduced to the beauty, and as the lights came, Clarissa escaped.
Brown about it, Vida admitted, smiling, because a man's interest in woman is so limited. Borrodaile laughed. 'I didn't know that was his failing! 'I mean his interest is of one sort. It's confined to the woman he finds interesting in that way at that minute. Other women bore him. But other women have always been mightily interesting to us! Now, sh! let's listen.
'Coon and Mr. Squirrel motioned to him and said "'Sh!" and Mr. 'Possum didn't notice anything had happened. "You see," he went right on, "every little while it happened that one of my ancestors would start up the tree not quite soon enough, and Mr. Painter would just manage to get his claws in that bushy ornament, which would settle it for that ancestor, right away.
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