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As his eye took in its contents the blood surged up and about his temples. He tore the paper across and across again, flung the pieces on the ground, and stooped for his scythe. The wastrel cast a wild look about him and fled. As he turned, presenting his back, Roger hurled his hone. It caught him a little above the shoulder-blades, almost on the neck, and broke in two pieces.
Ivy, lifting a protesting hand. "And is no effort being made to stamp out such iniquities in China? Might not some concerted action on the part of the women's clubs in all the Christian countries create a public sentiment against them?" Decker bit his lip as he stooped to pick up the leaflet she had dropped. "Gerald's here I suppose?" "Of course!
"Oh! yes, papa, very pleasant," she said, looking up at him with a face beaming with delight. He stooped and kissed her, saying, "I think I shall ride with you one of these days; should you like it?" "Oh! so very, very much, papa," she answered, eagerly. He smiled at her earnestness, and she hastened away to her room to change her dress and tell Chloe of her happiness.
"Perhaps the others have played so many tricks on him that he is suspicious of even our assistance," Ruth said. Thus speaking, she stooped to pick up a bit of paper in the path. It had been half covered by the sand and might have lain there a long time, or only a day. Just why this bit of brown wrapping paper had caught her attention, it would be hard to say.
She stooped and kissed Julia on the rosy cheek, and answered gently, moved by some inward impulse: "I am trying to do all my work for Jesus nowadays." "You didn't mend my dress and iron it, and curl my hair, and fix my sash, for him, did you?" "Yes; every little thing." "Why, I don't see how. I thought you did them for me."
"My horse I had forgotten him!" said I. And then, as she stirred sighfully, I stooped and kissed her, ere, loosing her, I rose. "I'll go and make him comfortable for the night." "And I will make you a bed, Peregrine." "It will be like old times," said I. "Yes though we didn't kiss each other then, Peregrine," said she, looking at me with a glory in her eyes.
When Falkland came that evening, she was sitting at a corner of the saloon, apparently occupied in reading, but her eyes were fixed upon her boy, whom Mrs. St. John was endeavouring at the opposite end of the room to amuse. The child, who was fond of Falkland, came up to him as he entered: Falkland stooped to kiss him; and Mrs. St.
"That is the love of a Christian, at least," she said. Then she stooped, took the letter from her mother's knees, and went out. Mrs. Manners sat for a moment as her daughter left her. Then she understood that her hour of superiority was gone with Marjorie's hour of weakness; and she emitted a short laugh as she took her place again behind the child she had borne.
'What does it matter if we die to-night or a month hence? Isolde spoke in a low voice; her heart had unconsciously been gathering up bitterness against Valerie, and she had no longer the strength to conceal it under this unbearable strain. 'Valerie, you have stooped to meanness you who have so scorned meanness in others. You knew long ago what Rallywood's love was to me.
Suddenly Pomponio paused and looked up, with an expression of fear and hate on his face, dreadful, to see. Snatching up the lantern from the floor, he dropped it behind the great box, and ran to the window. The Father stooped, and crouched close against the wall under the window for there had not been time to get away and waited, hardly daring to breathe.
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