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His face was serious, and his eyes glowed with anxiety and anger as he laid aside his gun, and spoke a few commanding words to his wife. It was broad daylight when Jean opened her eyes and looked curiously around. It was a still, frosty morning. The sun sifted down through the branches of the trees, and formed a fantastic net-work of light and shadow upon the ground.
But to insure this, the material must be of the very best description for the purpose. Stones, if allowed at all and in the author's opinion they should not be should be small, few, and far between. Let those that are sifted out be thrown into the tail of the down stream slope.
Chop twenty-five clams or oysters fine, and mix them with a batter made as follows: One pint of flour, in which has been sifted one heaping teaspoonful of baking-powder and half a teaspoonful of salt; one large cup of milk, and two eggs well beaten. Stir eggs and milk together; add the flour slowly; and, last, the clams or oysters. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling lard.
If in the least sour, stir in before baking just enough soda to correct the acidity. A very nice, but more expensive, recipe. One pint of white flour, sifted; six eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately to the utmost; one saltspoonful of salt; one saltspoonful of soda dissolved in vinegar; milk to make a thin batter.
There were a few scraps of information to be gleaned from the classical authors of Greece and Rome, which had been so sifted and tortured as to yield almost any sense that was required; but even these scraps were self-contradictory, and, as we now know, were for the most part little else than fables.
The September sunshine sifted through the vines in patches upon the floor; the low laughter and blended voices of the four talkers; the echo of Tom's manly tread, and Mabel's lighter footfall, were all jocund music, befitting the brightness of the day and world.
But I am inclined to think that they were open all the time, that, at all events, they were what the French call 'entr'ouvert', that enough light for practical purposes came sifted in through his eyelashes.
After the mystery which enveloped the death of Oliver Whyte in the hansom cab murder I hesitate giving a decided answer, in any case till everything has been thoroughly sifted; but, if not Kitty Marchurst, whom do you suspect Vandeloup? 'No; he wanted to marry me, not to kill me. 'Have you any enemy, then, who would do such a thing? 'Yes; my husband. 'But he is dead.
It would, of course, afford me the keenest satisfaction to see you cleared, but the thing must be thoroughly sifted, because " Blake stopped and added quietly: "He insists on my going home." "His difficulty is obvious," Benson remarked. "If you are blameless, his son must be guilty." Blake did not answer, but sat musing with a disturbed expression.
He felt dimly the advance of great events. Harry Kenton was a normal and healthy boy, but the discussions, the debates, and the passions sweeping over the Union throughout the year had sifted into Pendleton also. The news today had merely struck fire to tinder prepared already, and, infused with the spirit of youth, he felt much excitement but no depression.
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