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Outside the office door Dorothy hesitated and looked at her watch. Quarter past four; laboratory work was over for the afternoon, and there would be ten girls to one copy of Ward's "Poets" in the library. "I'll go up there this evening," she decided swiftly, "and now for a skate before dinner," and she swung off toward the Hilton House to get her skates and her sweater.
At this Master Ned stepped forward with the spirit of chastisement in his eyes, his skates held back as if he meant to strike Phil with their sharp blades. But it happened that Philip had by now mounted the first door-step, and thus stood higher than his would-be assailant. So Master Ned stopped just out of Philip's reach, and said insolently: "'Tis time you were taught your place, young fellow.
But one letter now remained, and in spite of what had gone before, Jasper picked up this with dread. Surely, nothing nothing could reconcile Jimmy and those awful skates!
Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with a dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous, and described circles with his left leg, and cut figures of eight, and inscribed upon the ice, without once stopping for breath, a great many other pleasant and astonishing devices, to the excessive satisfaction of Mr. Pickwick, Mr.
She flew toward Winn, imitating the speed-skaters with one long swift stride of her skates. "Ah," she cried, "isn't it a jolly morning? Isn't everything heavenly? Aren't you glad you are alive?" That was the kind of mood she was in. It was quite superfluous to ask if she was nervous. She was just about as nervous as the sun was when it ran over the mountains.
So I beckoned to Chief Wambold, and told him about it; he made Nick come back here to face you, and confess to the theft." Nick growled something half under his breath, that sounded like: "Didn't steal 'em, I tell you; I bought the skates fair and square from Hugh here. You're all down on me, and won't listen to a thing I say; that's the worst of it."
"I was readin' of a lady that got married at seventy-nine, ma'am." "Just so," said Sophia, eagerly. Miss Priscilla did not care to pursue the subject. "We have thought of you," she continued, "and, as you have been very obliging, we have bought you a Christmas present. Here it is." Andy no sooner saw the skates than his face brightened up with the most evident satisfaction.
Linda's sled, the Gay Girl, did go farther than the first-named sled, and Bess was anxious to get to the top of the hill to try it over again. "It will never do in this world to let them crow over us," Bess declared. She and Nan slipped off their skates at the edge of the ice and all six laid hold of the long rope to pull the Sky-rocket up the hill.
George's reminding him of his last penitential moments in the lane, and of that King of Glory whose name had echoed ever since in the saddest corner of his memory; and the gutters where he had learned to slide, and the shop where he had bought his skates, and the stones on which he had trod, and the railings in which he had rattled his clachan as he went to school; and all those thousand and one nameless particulars, which the eye sees without noting, which the memory keeps indeed yet without knowing, and which, taken one with another, build up for us the aspect of the place that we call home: all these besieged him, as he went, with both delight and sadness.
They built temples in their honor, and prayed to them. Then, in the place where is now the little town of Ulrum in Friesland was the home of the spirit in the ice, Uller. That is what Ulrum means, the home of the good fairy Uller. Uller was the patron of boys and girls. They liked him, because he invented skates and sleds and sleighs. He had charge of things in winter and enjoyed the cold.
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