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You are to see those calm, unconscious heroines start, fixing their hairpinned braids with quick, deft touches, pinning up their skirts as for the crossing of a wimpling burn rather than for the fording of Death's black river. They measured the distance with cool, keen eyes, took up a can in each hand, exchanged a word, and started.
In fact, if I might make the suggestion, sir, if it's not necessary for you to start to-day " "It is, Angelo. Absolutely necessary." At the station there are only a few sleepy, depressed-looking travellers wrapped in furs.
"Well," resumed the captain, "as I was about to say " "Didn't I hear you say something about going to San Francisco for fresh supplies and more tools a few minutes ago?" asked Will, abruptly. "You did; we are short of provender and hard up for tools. I meant to start to-morrow, but now that you've come I'll delay " "We'll not delay an hour," cried Will, with unusual energy.
He ran almost all the way to the little inn; for he was growing desperate now, with the idea that his man had escaped him. "Why, he can do anything with such a start," he thought to himself. "And yet there's his lameness that'll go against him." At the Rose and Crown Mr.
"I have done that already." "Good! Tell it to him again as coming from me. He's going to make a good showman, though he came near putting this outfit out of business with the fool mule this afternoon. I would cut the act out, but for the fact that it is a scream from start to finish. Feeling all right?" "Yes, thank you. I am perfectly able to go on in the ring act tonight, if you think best."
Now, off to bed, all three of you, for we have to make an early start in the morning." Sir John held out his hand as he spoke. "Kiss me, Betty," he said to the eldest girl. "Are you my uncle?" she inquired. "No; your father and I were first cousins. But, my poor child, I stand in the place of father and guardian to you now." "I'd rather not kiss you, if you don't mind," said Betty.
Something in the expression of her face as she turned toward Mrs. Worthington made that lady start, while her heart throbbed with an indefinable emotion. Who was Adah Hastings, and why was she so drawn toward her?
"When the Lord Jesus brought me out of darkness into the light, when He broke the fetters and snapped the chains eleven years ago, I went home and said to my wife, 'I am going to live for Jesus, and we will start here, at home.
Convinced that he had almost reached the goal, Chupin also crossed, and followed closely at her heels. He soon saw her start and resume her rapid gait. A young man was coming toward her so quickly indeed that she had not time to avoid him, and a collision ensued, whereupon the young man gave vent to an oath, and hurling an opprobrious epithet in her face, passed on. Chupin shuddered.
But I want to ask you a question. Who was it that you stood talking with, under our tree in the square, between nine and ten o'clock, this night three weeks ago?" Though there was no anger in the voice it was so serious and deliberate that it made Tom start. "Three weeks ago; how can I possibly tell?" "Yes, you can; for it was a fine moonlight night, and you stood there a long time."
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