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A bright bit of red carpet wound its way about the altar. The squatter did not pause to examine the pictures on the wall nor even an instant before the glowing fire. Her eyes were searching for a Bible the shade deepening in them as she sidled toward the nearest seat. She read "H-y-m-n-a-l" on the back of the first book dropping it she gathered up another. "H-o-l-y B-i-b-l-e," she spelled.
He crossed his legs and slouched more indolently into his chair in the attitude of a bored and vacant-minded man but as he sat his brain was focussed on the clicking. "Am tied . . . up . . . here," spelled out the dots and dashes from the baggage-room. "If you understand, scrape chair on floor." Brent shifted his seat noisily. "She . . . is . . . caught. . . ." There was a pause there.
The same man, however, had shown up three days ago and had asked for another half-dozen of the birds. There had been three white pigeons among them. He was a shifty-eyed chap, Bagley said, old brown suit, hat with a rattlesnake skin around the crown. That, point for point, spelled Donley. Lee returned with the shirt which he had ripped from his prisoner's back.
This a long, and two short arrestations spelled the letter H. So, little by little, I wrote out with the lighthouse flash against the dark sky the simple sentence, "Christmas is coming." It was plain and expressive. It spoke to Jessie of the approaching day, when she should make her long-deferred decision, and when I so ardently anticipated that she would be mine.
And so Jo drifted into that sad-eyed, dyspeptic family made up of those you see dining in second-rate restaurants, their paper propped up against the bowl of oyster crackers, munching solemnly and with indifference to the stare of the passer-by surveying them through the brazen plate-glass window. And then came the War. The war that spelled death and destruction to millions.
Meanwhile, the man to whom it was addressed was wandering from the upper Nile to Victoria Nyanza and beyond where mail routes run out and end. Acknowledging in her thoughts, from the first frost on Cape Cod to the middle of winter, that temporizing only spelled weakness, Conscience had none the less temporized. She said to herself: "Nothing he wrote now would alter matters."
He had never been employed by a syndicate to draw up papers to avoid these mandates; he revered them, as he revered the Law, which he spelled with a capital. He spelled the word Soul with a capital likewise, and certainly no higher recognition could be desired than this! Never in the Honourable Hilary's long, laborious, and preeminently model existence had he realized that happiness is harmony.
All day, turn and turn about, we had spelled each other at going to the fore and breaking trail for the dogs. It was heavy snowshoe work, and did not tend to make a man voluble, yet Lon McFane might have found breath enough at noon, when we stopped to boil coffee, with which to tell me. But he didn't. Surprise Lake? it was Surprise Cabin to me. I had never heard of it before.
"It is there on the desk." Hannah brought the brown paper, and she and Frieda bent over it together. "L-a-e," spelled Hannah, but Frieda looked up, delighted. "I know. Laetus sorte mea! It means 'Happy in my lot! It is in the book Tante Edith sent me for my birthday, about the little cripple." "O, yes, The Story of a Short Life.
It was water over the dam and it is no fault of Audrey's that she would probably have spelled it "damn." By noon she was fairly abject. She did not analyze her own anxiety, or why the recollection of her escapade, which would a short time before have filled her with a sort of unholy joy, now turned her sick and trembling. Then, in the middle of the afternoon, Clay called her up.
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