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"My dear child!" he exclaimed at last, "can't you get something to do?" Angelica stopped instantly. If her thoughtlessness was exasperating, her docility was exemplary.
Had it not been for the somewhat exposed position, we would gladly have stopped on the banks of the river; but Uncle Paul thought it wiser to continue on till the natives should overtake us.
Your pretty little sister is putting an edge on her teeth!" Little Prince Ivan thanked the mouse, and ran out from the ruined palace, and climbed up on the back of his big black horse, with its saddle and bridle trimmed with silver. Away he galloped over the wide world. The witch baby stopped her work and listened. She heard the music of the dulcimer, so she made sure he was still there.
"Ellen," I said, "do you indeed love me?" "How can I help it, John Cowles," she answered bravely. My heart stopped short, then raced on, bursting all control. It was long before I could be calm as she. "You have helped it very long," I said at last, quietly. "But now I must know would you love me anywhere, in any circumstances, in spite of all?
Torrens to know how many g's there were in agreeable, or a tea-collector might have prowled in to add relics to her collection, or even the sound of the carriage afar inaudible by man might have caused Achilles to requisition the opening of the drawing-room door, that he might rush away to sanction its arrival. Two guardian angels the story thinks stopped any of these things happening.
It stopped raining at last; if Miss Belsize could have had her way we should all have started for Lord's that minute. I took her into the garden to show her the state of the lawns, coldly scintillant with standing water and rimmed by regular canals. Lord's would be like them, only fifty times worse; play had no doubt been abandoned on that quagmire for the day.
He permitted no pause until they reached the car, the engine of which had not been stopped. "Quick, for your lives!" he ordered, as he leaped in. Pendleton and Burgess followed instantly. The car had scarcely begun its plunge forward when a horrible rending shock staggered them. And as they sped away the debris of the deaf-mute's work-shop was falling all about them.
Hans stopped the litter till I came up when he told me what had happened, while Inez also began to chatter in her childish fashion about a "White Lady." I had the curiosity to walk a little way along the right-hand path which they were about to take.
Failure in the slightest point always galled Shamrock Jolnes. "Did you say your three daughters?" he asked of the Virginia gentleman. "Yes, suh, my three daughters, all as fine girls as there are in Fairfax County," was the answer. With that Major Ellison stopped the car and began to descend the step. Shamrock Jolnes clutched his arm.
The Blue's full-back was stopped in an attempt on the opposite right tackle and a penalty for off-side brought the ball to near the middle of the field. Claflin then punted to Brimfield's seven yards and the whistle sounded the end of the first quarter. The stand cheered while the players traversed the field to line up under the shadow of the west goal.
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