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Somehow it seemed to wake Joe up, and excite his ambition, to give him a sense of power which he had never felt before. "If I could only get a foothold here," thought Joe, "I should be willing to work twice as hard as I did on the farm." This was what Joe thought. I don't say that he was correct. There are many country boys who make a mistake in coming to the city.
"It's quite plain that I must lose credit with them, then, if it depends on my eating that. Tell me, Jacques, is there no way of escape? Must I sit here till it is all consumed?" "No doubt of it. Every bit that has been cooked must be crammed down our throats somehow or other."
They were going home! That was the big event; and somehow, she did not feel as sorry as she usually did at the end of a vacation. In fact, she was almost eager to leave this island, with its powder mills and spies that shot boys you liked, and robbed you in the bargain quite eager to drop play, and do her bit for the country she loved.
Isn't it odd that I should have to be called 'my lady' now? Do you know Miss Thorne " "Mary! Mary!" said her guest. "Ah, yes; but somehow, I hardly like to make so free; but, as I was saying, I do so dislike being called 'my lady: I always think the people are laughing at me; and so they are." "Oh, nonsense."
It's this German beer that you are drinking. I have known a case where a man " "Don't tell me about him just now," said George. "I dare say it's true, but somehow I don't feel I want to hear about him." "You are not used to it," said Harris. "I shall give it up from to-night," said George. "I think you must be right; it doesn't seem to agree with me." We took him home, and saw him to bed.
She wondered if somewhere under the stars Tom Gray was seeking, at the same time, to send her a message. Never before had she been so thoroughly imbued with the mystical impression of his nearness to her. It was not a long letter, yet somehow she had managed exactly to convey the meaning she had intended.
"I don't care who owns the thing," said March. "My negotiations were with you alone from the beginning, and I leave this matter with you. What do you wish done about Lindau?" "Oh, better let the old fool drop," said Fulkerson. "He'll light on his feet somehow, and it will save a lot of rumpus." "And if I decline to let him drop?" "Oh, come, now, March; don't do that," Fulkerson began.
"And naturally she would wish to have you a good deal to herself, or at least not seeming to run after other people." "Yes, yes; I know that." "And no one ever likes to be taken at their word in a thing like that." "I ought to have thought of that, but I didn't. I wish I had gone to you first, Mrs. Pasmer. Somehow it seems to me as if I were very young and inexperienced; I didn't use to feel so.
What I heard from Miss Matty was that he had been a volunteer at the siege of Rangoon; had been taken prisoner by the Burmese; and somehow obtained favour and eventual freedom from knowing how to bleed the chief of the small tribe in some case of dangerous illness; that on his release from years of captivity he had had his letters returned from England with the ominous word "Dead" marked upon them; and, believing himself to be the last of his race, he had settled down as an indigo planter, and had proposed to spend the remainder of his life in the country to whose inhabitants and modes of life he had become habituated, when my letter had reached him; and, with the odd vehemence which characterised him in age as it had done in youth, he had sold his land and all his possessions to the first purchaser, and come home to the poor old sister, who was more glad and rich than any princess when she looked at him.
Her heart grew very tender, and her denial less decided. She wondered where Jim was. She longed to go to him. She would have loved to carry the warning to him herself. Somehow, she wanted to be at his side, to tell him all she felt at the trouble she had brought upon him. At the wrong she had so thoughtlessly, unintentionally done him.
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