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His father's front door was unfastened by day; she had not set eyes on him yet, and Mr. Woodseer murmured: 'Now she's got the boy. There 's clasping and kissing. He's all wild Wales to her. The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower beside her, and a sniffle of her happiness audible.
"What yuh doin' that for?" the shrillest voice repeated three times rapidly, with a sniffle now and then by way of punctuation. "To make little girls ask questions," grunted Casey, glancing around him for the snub-nosed, double-headed, four-pound hammer which he called affectionately by the name Maud. The biggest girl had Maud.
He looked about, however, with a stupid gaze of self-satisfaction; but his laugh and language, forming a strange and most unseemly coalition, degenerated at last into a dolorous sniffle, indicating the rapid departure of the few mental and animal holdfasts which had lingered with him so long.
"Did the gineral dance at the ball?" asked Rhoda. "What did he do with his swurd? Did he dance with it outen his scibburd?" "He danced like a gentleman," Mrs. Tilghman replied, as if she would rather not, "and led me out in the first set. You danced with him, Vesta, at the ball in '24, forty-three years afterwards. Does he sniffle yet?" "I don't recollect, grand-aunt.
I'll never forget how nice she's allus been to my gal 'ere, and to every gal in the show, for that matter. She's an angel if there ever was one. Don't interrupt, Casey. I've said it. You keep still, too, Ruby and don't sniffle like that, either. "I won't go into the 'istory of 'ow the Colonel tried to get 'er away from Tom.
Martha Hadley, why in the name of nonsense are you eating dinner with your hat on?" "Because," says Martha, beginnin' to sniffle, "I I'm going away." "But where? Why?" demands Zenobia. And between sobs Martha explains. She includes me in it too. "Then why aren't you wearing your hat also, Torchy?" asks Zenobia. "Well," says I, "I ain't so sure about quittin' as she is.
He slowly raised his right arm, the rest of him still and motionless like a statue, and took the Doctor's hand in his. It was a great moment. Polynesia nodded to me in a knowing, satisfied kind of way. And I heard old Bumpo sniffle sentimentally. Then the Doctor tried to speak to Long Arrow. But the Indian knew no English of course, and the Doctor knew no Indian.
Then she would whine, and cry, "I won't go, I say I won't." "Go right along, you naughty boy, or I shall tell your father." Poll now begins to sob and sniffle in earnest, when she suddenly stops and begins the whole conversation over again, greatly to the merriment of her hearers. There is, however, one trick that Poll has learned, which is quite inconvenient. Near Mr.
You sit there with your silly face half ready to giggle and half ready to sniffle, and tell me stories like that, about Sibyl picking on Bobby Lamhorn and worrying him to death, and you think it matters to ME? What if I already KNEW all about their 'quarreling'? What if I understood WHY she " She broke off with a violent gesture, a sweep of her arm extended at full length, as if she hurled something to the ground.
She counted on his coming back? She did. 'I cannot take a step forward without counting on success. We know the chances we are to meet. My father has written of death. We do not fear it, so it is nothing to us. We shall go together; we shall not have to weep for one another. The strange young woman's avoidance of any popular sniffle of the pathetic had a recognized merit.
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