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In you I've brought into the house a stick for my own back! This sort of quarrelling went on without ceasing. At the beginning of June the witness said to Helene, ``If this continues you'll have to look for another place. ``That's it! Helene yelled, in reply. ``Because of that girl I'll have to go! On the 10th of June M. Bidard gave Helene definite notice.
And that afternoon he came home with a story of how while he had been digging away with a stick, a lady upon the street had called him.
On a fine morning of the following week, the emigrants began the first stage of their long journey; the women in two carts, with their small impedimenta, the men walking Ian with them, a stout stick in his hand. They were to sail from Greenock. Ian and Christina met several times before he left, but never alone.
The child's eyes caught sight of the dog on the sidewalk, and he hung back, watching to see what the young man would do to it. But his mother drew him after her. Just then an automobile came panting through the snow. With a quick movement Cooper picked up the dog on the end of his stick and tossed it into the street, under the wheels of the machine.
He, as well as another, could wave his brown stick of an arm and bid somebody "Take that banner down, 'tis tattered." He had been brought up on the story of the glory of the men who wore the gray, and for him the sword of Robert Lee would never dim nor tarnish. But these things were different.
Presently he began to explore the hollow, poking into all the rabbit-holes with his stick. Christopher sat silent, which was a mistake, for it left her irritation but one object on which to expend itself, and after all it was Geoffry who should have tried to please her by sitting still.
"Oh my, oh my! bid the stick be still, else it will beat me to death. You shall have back both your cloth and your ram." When the lad thought the landlord had had enough, he said, "Stick, stick! now stop!" Then he took the cloth and put it into his pocket, and went home with his stick in his hand, leading the ram by a cord tied around its horns; and so he got his rights for the meal he had lost.
"To me it appears to be a poor stick of a man who coolly proceeds with money making, and trusts to men who haven't even seen her to search for the girl he loves. I think a few hours of this is about all my patience will endure." "What are you going to do?" "I don't know," said the Harvester. "But you can bank on one thing sure I'm going to do something! I've had my fill of this.
When they were gone Morrissy turned savagely upon McQuade. "I told you you were a damn fool!" "Get out of here, both of you; and if you ever stick your heads in this office again, I'll smash you." McQuade dropped into his chair, once more alone. He sat there for an hour, thinking, ruminating, planning; but all his thinking and ruminating and planning had but one result: they had him licked.
No matter, a stick of firewood, sharpened at one end, makes an excellent substitute. Your breakfast done, turn out the gas, remount the stairs quietly, open gently the front door and slip out. You will find yourself in an unknown land. A strange city grown round you in the night. The sweet long streets lie silent in sunlight.
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