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"You are what would be called a fine young woman. If you had had the advantages of a refined life, of very good dress, you might, now that you are grown up, command almost any future. As it is" she shrugged her shoulders. "What is the matter with my dress?" said Florence; "you always were queer and rude, Bertha, and time has not improved you."
Mannering is best left alone now, for the present. You understand me?" Borrowdean shrugged his shoulders. There was a good deal too much sentiment in politics. Mannering and Berenice came together for a few moments on the terrace after dinner.
On the contrary, she carried her head with great assurance on her spare shoulders, put her hair in curling pins each night as punctually as she said her prayers, and wore a well-cut, shortish tweed skirt with sensible shoes. Her face was thin and she had a delicately-shaped, rather long nose, together with a charmingly-shaped mouth that had grown compressed and lost its sweetness.
"I'll warrant not a hair of your head's touched," answered Nicol Beg no very sound warranty, I thought, from a man who, as he gave it, had to put his weight back on the eager crew that pushed at his shoulders, ready to spring like weasels at the throat of the gentleman in the red tartan.
Some seemed to feel as though they wanted some one to knock a chip off their shoulders, old grudges were talked over, and several fights were prevented by the interference of friends who were jolly and happy, and who did not believe in fighting for fun, when there was so much fighting to be done in the way of business. The old doctor walked up and down in front of his tent in a deep study.
I have no money of my own left, and my brothers have none either. 'Silly boy! Why, you have only got to fetch the man who carried half the forest on his shoulders. And the youth was glad, and called the strong man, and told him what he must do. 'Take everything you can, till you are bent double. Never mind if you leave the palace bare. The strong man promised, and nobly kept his word.
With a faint consciousness that she knew something about it, she tried to assume a dignified attitude on the leader's shoulders even while she was beginning to be heavy with sleep.
She then place her hand upon her breast and then held it up, to ask how many women there were, and I answered her by holding up three fingers, at which she shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.
When most girls are married they look forward to having a strong man's arm between them and the world; they expect to be shielded from trouble; but if you marry Rayner, this will not be your lot. You will have to watch over him, to spare him fatigue and anxiety, and take the burden on your own shoulders, for he is a man who will require constant care." "I know that. It is what I long to do.
So saying, he put his hands upon Rollo's shoulders, and crowded them down, by way of showing him how the earth acted upon him. "It pulls," he continued, "with a strong and steady pull, all the time; and so makes you a very heavy weight." "Is that what makes weight?" said Rollo. "Yes," said his father.
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