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Vain still, for a nature does not change in a day; and, though Rosalind was an infinitely more lovable person now than she had been a few weeks before, the habits of a lifetime were still strong upon her, and she could never by any possibility be indifferent to admiration, or pass a mirror without stopping to examine the progress of that disfiguring scar.
The first two, who came on at full gallop, did not salute him, but, stopping close to him, leaped to the ground, and he found himself in the arms of the Counsellor de Thou, who embraced him tenderly, while the little Abbe de Gondi, laughing heartily, cried: "Behold another Orestes recovering his Pylades, and at the moment of immolating a rascal who is not of the family of the King of kings, I assure you."
Although we had made a very early start, we loitered so much on the way stopping every now and then, and floating silently along, to get a shot at a goose or a duck that it was late in the day when he reached the outlet.
The quartette wandered on contentedly, stopping when they pleased, and that was every few minutes. Overhead the sky was a deep pure blue, and the larks were singing rapturously; the sun shone brilliantly, drawing out the smell of the tar from the "sleepers," and the scent from the flowers. Under the hawthorn hedges which bordered most of the way the petals lay in a thick carpet.
"I am goin' somewhere to find boys that ain't so turruble quick stampeded by a roast turkey." He began to lounge slowly away, serious as he had been throughout, and they, stopping their noise short, swiftly picked up their boxes, and followed him.
If they do happen to overtake a personal acquaintance, they just exchange a hurried salutation, and keep walking on either by his side, or in front of him, as his rate of walking may chance to be. As to stopping to shake hands, or to take the friend’s arm, they seem to think that as it is not included in their salary, they have no right to do it.
'There, said Robert, stopping, 'we are at our journey's end. Now then, what sort of a place of human habitation do you call that?
"Not stopping here, sir," was the reply, after the clerk had consulted the register. "I mean the young man who was hauled out of the lake and was brought here feeling rather sick." The clerk shook his head. "No such person here." Sam and Tom stared in astonishment, and then turned to the lumberman. "The friends who were with him said they were going to bring him here," said Luke Peterson.
"I will," replied Horace, coolly: "if I'd known you used such swearing words I never'd have come!" "Hollo, there!" shouted Peter, a few moments after, "I'll keep with you, and risk it, cap'n." "Come on, then," returned Horace, who was glad of Peter's company just now, little as he liked him. "Where's our baskets?" said he, stopping short. "Sure enough," cried Peter; "but we can't go back now."
They say Bank Holiday is a horrid day in London, and you can get very cheap tickets to the sea on that day. 'Go in an excursion train! cried Stella in accents of dismay. 'You would not like it at all, Vava; it would be ten times worse than stopping in town.
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