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But come, you will understand things better when you see us making our arrangements. Of course you understand how to manage sails of every kind?" "If I did not it would ill become me to call myself a sailor," returned our hero. "That is well, because you will sit in the middle, from which position the sail is partly managed.
But now he was really going to open it, for he had at last found another human being who could understand and appreciate. "May I shut off the bright light and sit in the firelight?" he asked, and Gila acquiesced sweetly.
I come into contact with people of every kind. And I get to know a lot, too, because I'm not like other men more than one maiden has confided her miseries to me. And then in winter, when I sit alone, I think over everything and the Bible is a good book, a book a man can draw wisdom from.
"Sit here," he said, placing a comfortable rocker for her, then he sat opposite her, and waited for her to open her heart to him. "You know," she began, falteringly, "that I have lost my husband; he died several months ago, and there has been some trouble about the settlement of his estate.
And if you like to go up to get the warmth of the sun or the light of the stars, there's white sand where you can lie at your ease, and there's great rocks where you can sit and look out over the sea and get the fresh breeze. And that's all we know of it; we've not been away from the sea."
The period of convalescence, during which Miss Ludington sat in her room, lasted several days, and one evening she sent for Paul. She was alone when he came in, and after he had inquired after her condition, she motioned him to a chair. "Sit down, Paul," she said; "I want to have a little talk with you."
They are ogres who entice us poor girls into their castles, and then eat up our happiness and scold us while they eat." Well, I suppose it is so. I suppose I am an ogre and enticed Polly into my castle. But she didn't find it large enough, and teased me to build another. I suppose she does sit with me in the evening, and sew, and make tea, and wait upon me.
He told me he liked me very much and was sorry I wouldn't go with him, and he divided the crackers and told me to sit still and not look until I had counted 100. I did, and when I'd finished there wasn't any Henry to be seen. I ate a cracker, and started back down the road again, and now everybody was up and I met men on the roads and dogs barked at me, and oh, how long the road seemed!
"You may not know," said Amy Warlock, "that I have retained my maiden name. Sit down, won't you? It is good of you to have come." The voice was a little more genial than it had been in the old days. Nevertheless this was still the old Amy Warlock, stiff, masculine, impenetrable. "I hope your aunt is better," she said. "My aunt is dead," answered Maggie. "Dear me, I'm sorry to hear that.
A thief could have set no neater trap, and if it is money you want, state your sum and let me go, for my time is valuable and my society likely to be unpleasant." He gave a shrug with his shoulders that in no wise interfered with his set smile. "You choose to be facetious," he observed. "I have already remarked that we have no use for your money. Will you sit down?
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