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With the energy of anger and despair Lady Anne made an effort to reach the bell-cord but it missed the cord swung Petcalf ran to catch it, and stumbled over a stool English Clay stood still and laughed French Clay exclaimed, "Ah! mon Dieu! Cupidon!" Count Altenberg saved Cupid from falling, and rang the bell.
"So that's the man!" he echoed, in a tone that might have told his companion something, only the fingers which Langholm had feared to crush had already fallen upon the keys, with the strong, tender, unerring touch of a master, and the impressionable player was swaying with enthusiasm on his stool.
He found the old negro in his usual seat at the foot of his favorite tree, upon his well-smoothed and sleek wooden stool. "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Toney. "You come dis time widout Miss Alice. Why she not come wid you? You not want somebody to turn de squirrel for you? May be you bring de ole man more dan one dar?"
The Babu explained to us that a little boy was pulling the bell rope from the roof. Sham Rao stepped in with his right foot and very slowly. Then he approached the altar and sat on a little stool with his legs crossed. At the opposite side of the room, on the red velvet shelves of an altar that resembled an etagere in the drawing-room of some fashionable lady, stood many idols.
No immediate response was made. Some one nudged Curly, who started up. "Who me?" he said. "Is your name William Haskins?" asked the judge. "Reckon so," said Curly. "My folks used to call me that. I usually go under the road brand o' Curly, though." He took his seat on a stool near the store box, was sworn, with his hat on, and the prosecuting attorney began the examination. "What is your name?"
"I solemnly supplicate upwards of fifty pardons," said Mat; "bad manners to it for a stool! but, your honor, it was my own detect of speculation, bekase, you see, it's minus a leg a circumstance of which you waren't wi a proper capacity to take cognation, its not being personally acquainted with it. I humbly supplicate upwards of fifty pardons."
These are wicked thoughts which haunt me only the agitation of this dreadful day, which imagination has overwrought. Rise up and be strong! Go to thy children," said she, "and read in their eyes that he can never leave thee!" Forcing herself to composure, she sought her children; found Louisa humming and singing her little boy to sleep, and her daughter nodding, on a low stool at her feet.
He was a solemn, long-faced, and long-legged man, with reddish hair and pale complexion, who seldom or ever smiled, and at the bench always looked as if he were standing on a stool, he stooped so immoderately. A greater contrast than that between him and the shoemaker could hardly have been found, except in this, that the carpenter also looked sickly.
I might be able to say good-bye and thanks at the same time nothing strange in that. Emma came in again with the rug and laid it down neatly folded on a stool. "If you don't hurry up, the coffee'll be cold," she says. "What did you put that rug there for?" "Fruen told me to." "Oh, well, perhaps it's Falkenberg's," I muttered. Emma asks: "Are you going away now for good?"
Hardcastle, taking it from her without looking. "Oh, my child, how could you be so careless! You have let me pull out one of the needles. Well well." Phebe took the work silently back, and sat herself down on a stool to remedy the mischief. "A nice young fellow enough," remarked Mr. Hardcastle, condescendingly, returning to the group of ladies. "But he'll never set the river on fire."
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