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Everything I wished for has come to pass, even the hearing you call me by that blessed name; but, Maggie, when to-morrow they say that I am dead when you come down to look upon me lying here asleep, you needn't call me 'Grandmother, you may say 'poor Hagar! with the rest; and, Maggie, is it too much to ask that your own hands will arrange my hair, fix my cap, and straighten my poor old crooked limbs for the coffin?
I don't believe in miracles, but if you can straighten up and make a man of yourself, I'll help you face this trouble; otherwise don't call on me for anything. I'm through. Kirk reread this amazing epistle several times before its full significance struck him; then, when he realized what it meant, he felt himself break into a sweat of apprehension. That plain- clothes man had died!
But he could not straighten his legs, so they allowed him to lie half side-ways, and tied him so. It was amazingly uncomfortable, and, before he was settled, twice the sweat suddenly poured from his face as he found some new channel of pain in his body.... An order or two was issued in a loud, shouting voice; there was a great confusion and scuffling, and the crack of a whip.
And straighten out." With his hands he manipulated her arms and shoulders into position. "Remember, you've got to meet the first of the strain with your arms straight out. After the strain is on, you couldn't bend 'em if you wanted to. But if the strain catches them bent, the wire'll rip the hide off of you.
He's offered me thirty-five hundred cash, and she's offered me thirty hundred cash, which is all the place's worth, for it'll take another ten hundred to straighten out the house, with new winder frames, floorin' 'nd plaster 'nd shingles, beams and sills all bein' sound, when the truth is I don't wish ter sell nohow, yet can't afford to hold!
The butler shut the door, and John went to the library fire. There his mother found him. She saw that something was seriously the matter. He was helped up to bed, and the doctor sent for. For more than a week he suffered. He lay bent over, unable to straighten himself, as if a nerve had been wound up too tightly in the left side.
Why, I heard Long Jim singing 'Old Folks at Home' this morning when he was saddling his horse. And it's made a difference. The men sort of want to straighten up the bunk-room. Jasper made a new chair yesterday. He said it would do when you came again." Gardley laughed diffidently, as if he knew their hopes were all in vain. But Margaret looked up with sympathy in her face, "I'll come!
Now things are going to change, or you'll go back on codliver oil to-night." "Yes'm," said Old Maggie meekly, with hate in her heart. She loathed the codliver oil. "Go back and straighten her bed!" commanded the Senior sternly. "Now?" "Now!" "It hurts my back to stoop over," whined Old Maggie, with the ward watching. "The doctor said that I "
"I am just going to dress for a little tea, and I may have to look in at the opening of the Athenaeum Club," she went on, fussing with a frill at her wrist, "so I may be as late as five. But I'll bring some flowers when I come. Miss Alexandra will probably be at home by that time, but if she isn't if she isn't, perhaps you would just go in and straighten the living room, Justine?
"And now there's all this wretched tittle-tattle about you!" chafed Lady Susan. "My poor little Ann, it really is a stroke of the most fiendish ill-luck." Ann nodded. "Yes. Don't you see how impossible it is for me to clear myself? We were there. It's true." "I do see," replied Lady Susan in a worried tone. "It's just the kind of coil that's hardest of all to straighten out.
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