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The Latin grammar, too, was a terrible task, while the many things he longed to know no one taught him. So it happened that many a time, instead of going to school, he would slip away and escape up into the hills, as happy as a little wild goat. Here was all the sweet fresh air of heaven, instead of the stuffy schoolroom. Here were no cruel, clumsy boys, but all the wild creatures that he loved.
They were tersely official in form, gave him all necessary authority, and ordered him to leave for Le Pas that night. Pinned to the order was a small slip of paper, and on this MacGregor had repeated in writing his words of a few hours before: "Whatever happens, bring back your prisoner." There was no signature to this slip, and the first two words were heavily underscored.
Accomplish the same end, only with greater delicacy. After all, a distinction without a difference." "Could you?" he asked. "I know I could, if the occasion demanded. I am not one to let what I might deem life-happiness slip from me without a struggle. As my father always says, I belong to the strugglers and fighters.
That woman would slip through my fingers like a snake if I attempted to grasp her elusive character. I asked Oke whether he would take a walk with me the next afternoon, and he accepted to do so with a curious eagerness. We started about three o'clock.
It lay, however, just below a deep rock cut that had been made in a mountain crag and beyond a sharp curve. McNally leaned from his cab window, and when the lightning flashed, saw that the cut was clear of rock and released the brakes slightly to allow the long train to slip through the reverse curve at the bridge. Curves cramp a train, and a smooth runner likes to feel them glide smoothly.
They probably lost their way, and could not get back to the harbour before dark. There are no wild beasts or savages on shore, and so they could not come to harm; you slip into the cabin, and call the other gentlemen, and I'll manage the crew, who have just loosed topsails, and are already at the windlass with the cable hove short."
She was too far down the path to hear the dialogue, carried on in an ordinary voice. She waited patiently for its end. Her shoulders felt the warmth of the rock; now and then a whiff of cooler air seemed to slip down upon her head from above; the ravine at her feet, choked full of vegetation, emitted the faint, drowsy hum of insect life. Everything was very quiet.
Since, however, you have now re-awakened investigation, we will visit her before you leave the town; and it may be as well too, that Houseman should undergo a further investigation before we suffer him to depart." "I thank you! I thank you I will not let slip one thread of this dark clue."
"May I," she suggested, "write your message for you, and put your purport in words that will be understood by my father alone?" "Do," I rejoined, "but do it in my name, and I will sign it." Under her direction, I took the stylus or pencil and the slip of tafroo she offered me, and wrote my name at the head.
But now that the evil days were come, Strong made use of the passage, and one afternoon burst in upon Bows and Costigan with his jolly face, and explained that the enemy was in waiting on his staircase, and that he had taken this means of giving them the slip. So while Mr.
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