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You can't hide a great army in a house. I want to know if you've seen the Southern Army. I want to know if you've heard anything about it." "I ain't seed it. My sight's none too good, mister. Sometimes the blazin' sun gits in my eyes and kinder blinds me for a long time. Then, too, I'm bad of hearin'; but I'm a powerful good sleeper.

"The next sight's gruesome!" he announced, his voice booming hollow among the shadows. The passage turned into a lofty chamber in the rock, whose walls once had all been lined with dressed stone, but some of the lining had fallen.

"Yes, boys, I see I see you all. I'm cured. My sight's come back, and what's more" he snatched from his pocket a folded sheet of paper and held it aloft "what's more, I've got my commission to do the old job again; to boss the railways, to help the two towns.

"I don't know it yet. I must practice it a bit at home. My sight's not so good as it used to be " "Such a pair of optics, love, you've never, never seen One my mother blacked last night, the other it is green!" sang Violet, to the infinite delight of all the unwashed-looking supernumeraries and ballet-girls, who were scattered about the stage, talking and laughing.

"Yes, boys, I see I see you all. I'm cured. My sight's come back, and what's more" he snatched from his pocket a folded sheet of paper and held it aloft "what's more, I've got my commission to do the old job again; to boss the railways, to help the two towns.

My heart be pumping wind, lifeless wind; my lung-play's gone, tu, an' my sight's come awver that coorious. Be Gaffer Lezzard nigh?" "Here, alongside 'e, Bill." "Gimme your hand then, an' let auld scores be wiped off in this shattering calamity. Us have differed wheer us could these twoscore years; but theer mustn't be no more ill-will wi' me tremblin' on the lip o' the graave."

Drummond stood imperturbable as a statue. "The sweep of those oars is English, Jack, my boy." As the boat came nearer and nearer Jack became more and more agitated. "I say, Alan, focus your eyes on that man at the rudder. I think my sight's failing me. Look closely. Did you ever see him before?" "I think I have, but am not quite sure."

But, like a true Italian, she was hardly at all sentimental, attached to reality, and needed to see people if she were, perhaps not to think of them, but certainly to take pleasure in talking to them. Her heart's memory needed to be supported by having her sight's memory refreshed from time to time. Her letters became brief and distant. She was as sure of Christophe as Christophe was of her.

Thin we can go ahead wid two J.P.s tu handle things. Yuh take charge av Mr. Man, Ridmond! Me an' Yorke will go an' eat now, an' relieve yuh later." "The Court is prepared, the Lawyers are met, The Judges all ranged, a terrible show!" As Captain Macheath says, and when one's arraigned, The sight's as unpleasant a one as I know. "Orrrdher in Coort!" rang out Sergeant Slavin's abrupt command.

I hope there's enough, and to spare, for all this hungry company that'll sit down to it, when the sight's over. 'I fear, observed the clergyman, shaking his head, 'that you are incorrigible. 'You're right. I am, rejoined Hugh sternly. 'Be no hypocrite, master! You make a merry-making of this, every month; let me be merry, too. If you want a frightened fellow there's one that'll suit you.