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And Mr. Bronson listened and, in turn, understood. "But what of 'Frisco Kid, father?" Joe asked when he had finished. "Hum! there seems to be a great deal of promise in the boy, from what you say of him." Mr. Bronson hid the twinkle in his eye this time. "And, I must confess, he seems perfectly capable of shifting for himself." "Sir?" Joe could not believe his ears. "Let us see, then.
The record of this discovery had scarcely been carried back to his brain, when the silence of the room seemed to explode into a white sting, a puff of noise that felt like a whip lash curling about Blake's leg. It seemed to roll off in a shifting and drifting cloud of smoke.
Huh, here comes the conductor wonder what he wants." The conductor, it developed, was shifting passengers from the car behind the one in which Bob and Betty had seats. It was to be dropped at the next junction and the few passengers remaining were to be accommodated in this coach. "You're all right, don't have to make any change," said the official kindly, after examining their tickets.
It was as if the current of a river were momentarily stayed and pent up; and then with a mighty crashing of timbers and shifting of pebbles, and a din as of the world's end, began to run the other way. Anne's face turned a shade paler; so appalling was the noise, she would fain have stopped her ears. But her mother sat up. "What is it?" she asked eagerly. "What is it?" "Dear mother, do not fret!
Still they dared not approach him. His two sons stood about, shifting from one foot to another, as if they expected a blow to descend upon them at any moment, as if each labored movement of terrible old Bill Campbell caused them the agony which he must be suffering. As for Bull Hunter, he sat again on the floor, his chin dropped upon his great fist, and wondered for a time at his uncle.
Few of my readers will regret so much as myself that I am unable to give them the constructive explanation his lordship gave Dorothy as to the shifting of the weights. Whether she understood it or not, I cannot tell either, but that is of less consequence.
The villages are constantly shifting, owing to the necessity of burning fresh tracts of forest every two years. The houses are entirely built of bamboo, and, for such temporary structures, are very well built.
Of all reputations, a musical reputation seems the most shifting and uncertain; and of all rivalries, musical rivalries are the most prolific of heart-burnings and discomfort. Now, if I should sing or play, I should wish to sing and play well. But what is well?
Waking Harry, the two lads peered upward and saw the stars blotted out as the shadowy form of the air-ship passed above them between the sky and themselves. All at once a bright ray of light shot downward and, after shifting about over the frozen surface for a time, it suddenly glared full on to the boys' camp.
"Maybe I may" answered Margaret, "but not with my father's 'prentice I thank you, Dame Ursula." "Nay, then, the devil may guess your thoughts for me," said Dame Ursula; "this comes of trying to shoe a filly that is eternally wincing and shifting ground!" "Hear me, then," said Margaret, "and mind what I say. This day I dined abroad "
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