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And what a good time I could have with it! They would never suspect me of taking it, and I could have it cashed and no one would ever know. So I got up in the middle of the night and started right there and then to be a burglar. I went on tiptoe as softly as I could, and was right in the middle of the kitchen floor when I stumbled over a little stool and it made a noise.

Being accustomed to ground and lofty tumbling, he quickly recovered himself, and hopped gaily about, with one leg through the stool as he improvised a classic jig. 'Thanks for four nice little pictures. You have given me an idea, and I think some time we will get up regular tableaux of this sort and march our company round a set of dissolving views.

She went to the piano and rippled off a brilliant waltz or two, just to show him she could do it, played Humoresque, and a few little catchy melodies that were in the popular ear just then, and then, whirling on the gilded stool, she lifted her big eyes to him: "I don't like it in here," she said, with a little shiver, as a child might do; "let's go into the library by the fire.

I made myself agreeable, affected immense interest in her affairs, and so got into her room. Such a place! A mere corner of it curtained off to make a bedroom. One chair, one stool, one saucepan on the fire. Before the hearth the most grotesquely hideous unshaven poodle-dog you ever saw; and on the stool a fair little girl plaiting dinner-mats. Such was the household furniture and all included.

I knocked, and a slovenly negress opened the door and revealed the sordid interior an unspread bed; a foul table, sickly with the smell of half-eaten food and unwashed dishes; the central figure a poor, helpless old man sitting on a stool, I asked the negress for her master: she answered rudely that she had no master, and would have slammed the door in my face.

This was the Cosmo who now, somewhat sore at heart from the result of his cogitations, entered the kitchen in search of his kind. Another woman was sitting on a three-legged stool, just inside the door, paring potatoes throwing each, as she cut off what the old lady, watching, judged a paring far too thick, into a bowl of water.

Let every man who lives up to an unselfish ideal have full credit for it, whether he be a Trappist or a Buddhist. At one end of the refectory, below the line of tables, was a small wooden bench for a single person. The monk pointed to it with half a smile upon his face. 'What is it? I asked. 'The stool of penitence, he replied.

"It unites me eternally with you." "Do you expect that we shall meet again?" "I'll wait at the gates of heaven till you come." "And if for my sin's sake I go to hell?" "I'll pray to God till he releases you." "Would you like to pray again now?" "No, my heart is at peace." "Amen!" Then she sat her down on the little stool, and bound up her hair with the white fillet.

They collected in groups, to talk over the prospects of the voyage, and the duties required of them, as indicated by the watch bill. Shuffles sat on a stool in the brig, still nursing his wrath. When his supper was carried to him by the steward, his irons had been taken off. He refused to eat, and the food was removed. As he was now quiet, the irons were not replaced.

Peggy was marched off to have her hair re-washed and rinsed, and came back ten minutes later, proudly complacent, to seat herself in the most comfortable stool and eat roast apple with elegant enjoyment.