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"We won't have to tell him we know anything about his trouble. If he tells us why, all right, but if he doesn't, of course we won't try to force a confidence. Anyway," she finished soberly, "we'll have the satisfaction of knowing we have done our best for him whether it really helps him any or not." "And we owe him a very great deal," spoke up Amy softly. "He really saved our lives, you know."
"I've been thinking," said Ben soberly, "that I ought to have a hundred and fifty dollars and board the first year." Deacon Pitkin fairly gasped for breath. He was fairly overpowered by Ben's audacity. "A-hundred-and-fifty-dollars!" he ejaculated, turning his wrinkled face toward our hero. "That's about the figure," said Ben cheerfully.
A child in a faded tam-o'-shanter that had once been baby blue, and a shoddy coat of a glaring, unpropitious newness, was sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a hansom seat, and gazing soberly out at the traffic of Fifth Avenue.
She spoke in vain; but could she have read her daughter's heart at that moment, maternal affection might not have been so deeply pained as it was by this strange silence. Regret, deep, though unavailing, had been Caroline's portion, from the moment she had reflected soberly on her rejection of St. Eval.
They could not see the riders now. "There's a trail just over the hill," said Racey, nodding toward the mountain across the notch. "It ain't been regularly used since the Daisy petered out in '73, but I guess the bridge is all right." "And suppose it ain't all right?" "We'll have to grow wings in a hurry," he said, soberly, thinking of the deep cleft spanned by the bridge.
Thus, after divers words had passed on both sides the men behaving themselves all the while very wisely and soberly before them they fell to some blows among themselves, and did harm one to another. Then were these two poor men brought before their examiners again, and there charged as being guilty of the late hubbub that had been in the fair.
He was arrested there by the sight of two people and the mention of his own name by one of them. Sophie was sitting on the rail, looking soberly down on the glacial gray of Toba River. There was a queer expression on her face, a mixture of protest and resignation. Tommy Ashe stood beside her. He had imprisoned one of her hands between his own and he was speaking rapidly, eagerly, passionately.
There are ways and ways of loving." That, in her girlhood dream of love, she could not see. And Kenny was passionately glad that his words were a riddle. Then the horn came, clear and mellow, through the cold November air and Joan drew the hood of her cloak about her head. Kenny sighed. He clung to her hand as she started away. "Girleen," he said soberly, "the wind's cold.
Now and again the two younger would suddenly look over at Pelle, but they turned their eyes away again the moment he looked at them; and Manna was as grown-up and self-controlled as though he had never existed. Manna had been confirmed a long time now; her skirts were halfway to the ground, and she walked soberly along the street, arm-in-arm with her girl friends.
The old time-piece overhead ticked soberly, and the soft face of Redbud's mother looked down from its frame upon them; and the room was full of cheerfulness and light. And still the old clock ticked and ticked, and carried all the world toward eternity; the fire-light crackled, and the voices laughed; the portrait looked serenely down, and smiled. Ralph stretched himself. Mr.
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