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I can pay for " began Christina; but her father squeezed her arm, and drowned her soft voice in his loud tones. "Jobst will take care of the beast, as belonging to me. Woe betide him, if I find it the worse!" and his added imprecations seemed unnecessary, so earnest were the asseverations of both the man and his wife that the animal should be well cared for.
"Let me help you, sir," she said, and her hands came in contact with his, and were squeezed. "How is my sister?" She had no longer any fear in asking. "Now, you let me through, first," he replied, imitating an arbitrary juvenile. "You're as tight locked in as if you was in dread of all the thieves of London. You ain't afraid o' me, miss?
"Feel muchee better?" I did not answer, only squeezed his hand, and turned to see how Tom Jecks was, but he did not seem to have stirred, and we then ate sparingly of our biscuits, and drank more sparingly of the water. "Must be velly careful," Ching said again; "no get more till pilate gone 'way." That day went by like a portion of some feverish dream.
'He drives me down in the morning and back at night, but they will give me a bed or a sofa here to-night I can't... Cecilia stretched her hand out, blinded, to the earl. He squeezed her hand. 'These letters take away my strength: crying is quite useless, I know that, said she, glancing at a pile of letters that she had partly replied to. 'Some are from people who can hardly write.
Oh no, my lad, we won't seek clouds where there are none. All the same, we'll be prepared." It was the morning appointed for the review, the preparations having been all made on the previous day; and the reveille rang out, making Archie Maine turn over upon his charpoy bed with an angry grunt, for instead of unbuttoning his eyelids he squeezed them up extra tight.
A scorching sun, reflected by the pavement and the bayonets, was almost suffocating in the berlin, where ten persons were squeezed together. The sweat of the horses, the feverish breath of this multitude compact and excited, made the atmosphere dense and fetid. The travellers panted for breath, the foreheads of the two children were bathed in perspiration.
I have always held that the captain should be the last man to quit the deck of his ship; and every true seaman thinks the same, and would scorn to do otherwise. "A pretty job, this is," observed Dick Derrick, who was working away at the pumps close to me. "We were nearly squeezed to death by the ice a few days ago, and now it seems we are to be roasted with fire.
And now you want to talk about the history of recent rains." In the bitter-sweet spell of his clasp she was oblivious of street, children, sky. She tried to withdraw her hand, but he squeezed her fingers the more closely and their two hands dropped on her thin knee, which tingled to the impact. "But but what did you want to see me about?" Her superiority was burnt away.
The Duchess of Savoy gave the very next day an entertainment at La Venerie, where all the ladies were invited. The Chevalier was so agreeable and diverting, that he made his mistress almost die with laughing. Matta, in leading his lady to the coach, squeezed her hand, and at their return from the promenade he begged of her to pity his sufferings.
They all jumbled themselves into grotesque combinations, the things of to-day and the things of endless yesterdays, as Esther slept in the narrow little bed next to Dutch Debby, who squeezed herself into the wall, pretending to revel in exuberant spaciousness. It was long before she could get to sleep.
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