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The blood surged to his pale face and pounded in the veins under his ears, half choking him; it cut short the leave-taking and left the child bewildered and half hurt. She watched the calico pony lope away in a cloud of scurrying grasshoppers and wondered in a child-like way what could have happened. This abrupt and confused departure increased the loneliness she felt.
His father, Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, was a respectable citizen of the old stock of colonists from Holland, who for several terms was a member of Congress, and whom I remember as a short, stout old gentleman, commonly called Judge Verplanck, from having been in the latter years of his life a Judge of the County Court of Dutchess.
You see, most of them know the stories told about Randall's Folly, and they steer clear of the place." A short time afterwards Hugh's keen eyes made a discovery.
At the moment when, proud of being pronounced the bravest in the presence of the stranger, Armel was stretching out his hand to take the wild boar's hoof that Joel presented to him, an exceptionally short man in the family, nicknamed "Stumpy" by reason of his small stature, observed aloud: "Armel won in yesterday's fight because he was not fighting with Julyan.
Torkingham, that my husband, Sir Blount Constantine, was, not to mince matters, a mistaken somewhat jealous man. Yet you may hardly have discerned it in the short time you knew him. 'I had some little knowledge of Sir Blount's character in that respect.
Frank McCarthy then sang out, "Boys, make a break for the slough yonder, and we can then have the bank for a breast-work." We made a run for the slough which was only a short distance off, and succeeded in safely reaching it, bringing with us the wounded man. The bank proved to be a very effective breast-work, affording us good protection.
A short chapter will be devoted to the work done by women in primitive tribes and its importance in relation to their position.
He bowed assent, biting the short hairs of his moustache in vexation and embarrassment. "Hardly an hotel a wretched shanty of the usual corrugated-iron and mud-wall type, in the cattle-grazing country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein. And it seems my fate to be continually bringing our conversation back to a most unhappy and painful theme." "I acquit you of the intention to pain or wound.
Meat also was found to be very short; it was obvious that neither it nor coal could be made to last two years, but an evidently necessary step in the ensuing summer would be the ensuring of an adequate supply of meat and blubber, for obtaining which the winter presented little opportunity.
He explained to me in short the condition in which he was left by the engagement of the evening before, and suggested that I should intrench while he returned to Mound City with his disabled boats, expressing at the time the belief that he could have the necessary repairs made and be back in ten days.
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