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"He must have had a pig's time to be so rotten as that." It was a new view to the young man, and sobered him. "Perhaps," he said doubtfully. He was thinking out the question in his slow way. "It may be his own fault," he said. "You make yourself, I think." "Part," answered the girl. "And part you are made by your surroundings. That's the way with young stock anyhow.
His head swam, his heart leapt, his limbs did what they liked, being forgotten. And then, as he sobered himself, he tried seriously to find an answer to this question: Why had she returned, as it were surreptitiously, to the very building from which her funeral was supposed to have taken place?
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. The toils of the forenoon, the heats of midday, in the warm season, the slanting light of the descending sun, or the sobered translucency of twilight have subdued the vivacity of the early day.
I considered that I had acted the part of a madman, and had again begun to renew my career of sin and of folly, a little, and but a little, sobered by the recent event. We arrived in England after the usual passage from the Rock.
Had he been sober he would have seen the real danger in the young woman's eyes. "Cruel!" he said. "At least, one kiss," putting out his arms. Elsa, merciless in her fury, plunged the pin into his wrist. It stung like a hornet; and with a gasp of pain, Craig leaped back out of range, sobered. "Why, you she-cat!" "I warned you," she replied, her voice steady but low.
These accounts sobered our party not a little, and it was deemed advisable to double the watch that night. Poor fellow! their awful account of the Black Forest had been too much for his courage. Gregory was elected in his place, and wishing him a pleasant trip home, our journey was resumed as usual, and we entered the forest.
What sort of a man was Wakefield? We are free to shape out our own idea and call it by his name. He was now in the meridian of life; his matrimonial affections, never violent, were sobered into a calm, habitual sentiment; of all husbands, he was likely to be the most constant, because a certain sluggishness would keep his heart at rest wherever it might be placed.
"But," and his face sobered, "I reckon that that there is no idle threat," and he pointed to the flat stone, which now lay on the ground at his feet; "and I fancy the sooner we get to our dads the better it will be for us.
Rasmunsen didn't know, but supposed he was, and the man sobered down a bit. "What d'ye expect to get for 'em?" he asked cautiously. Rasmunsen became audacious. "Dollar 'n a half," he said. "Done!" the man came back promptly. "Gimme a dozen." "I I mean a dollar 'n a half apiece," Rasmunsen hesitatingly explained. "Sure. I heard you. Make it two dozen. Here's the dust."
Aunt Donoghue turned upon him majestically. "And then that is more than can be said for you, my poor young man," she exclaimed; and I vow he looked as sobered as if she had flung a bucket of cold water over him. Upon this she retired and shut the door, and marched me upstairs before her without a word. Before my room door she stopped. "Mrs.
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