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Jerry wanted with all his soul to play that sublime elephant jumping the fence and he summoned up all his courage. "I won't play," cried he, with a suspicious quiver of his lips. "I won't! I won't!" "I'll let you be el'funt part of the time," Danny promised, "just to keep you from cryin'." "I ain't goin' to cry," returned Jerry hotly. "I ain't!"
There are no charges against the Pilgrim why should there be? And moreover, what if there are? Good men are always maligned. He has been summoned to Rome that the Cardinals might have his advice. The Pope will meet him tomorrow in order to bestow his personal blessing. It is all over the burden falls from his back. He gasps in relief and sinks into a chair.
It is La Cibot's doing. . . . I ought to open your eyes before I go; you know nothing of life. . . . Somebody has taken away eight of the pictures, and they were worth a great deal of money." "Vorgif me I sold dem." "You sold them?" "Yes, I," said poor Schmucke. "Dey summoned us to der court " "Summoned?. . . . Who summoned us?" "Wait," said Schmucke.
Presently she grew calmer; rising, she put on the plainest of her scanty wardrobe, and went down the stairs, all in a strange trepidation new to her. She had never been in fear of a man before. She hearkened over the banisters for his voice, heard it, and summoned all her courage. How cowardly she had been to leave her father alone with him. Eliphalet stayed to tea.
It had just been an ordinary breakdown, due to worrying and overwork, said the doctor, the bigger of the doctors, the one who had been summoned from New York. "All your husband needs now, Mrs. Bannister, is rest. See that he is kept quiet. That's all there is to it." As if by way of a commentary on his words, a small boy on a bicycle rode up with a telegram. Sybil opened it.
Capitola threw herself into her chair to spend the slow hours until the boy's return as well as her fierce impatience and forced inaction would permit. At tea time she was summoned; but excused herself from going below upon the plea of indisposition. "Which is perfectly true," she said to herself, "since I am utterly indisposed to go.
There were many Cholulan lords and attendants about the Spanish camp and there were many others in town, evidently to lull any suspicions which the Spaniards might feel and to make whatever excuse they could for the lack of provisions. On one pretense or another, Cortes summoned the whole body to his house, which was a great rambling structure of many rooms and thick walls and enclosures.
Persons who are supposed to be in their right mind gravely relate to me such incidents that I could imagine myself transported to the Middle Ages. I hear of miraculous cures, of spirits summoned from the dead, of men and women floating in the air; and as to diabolic possession, it seems to have become as common as colds in the head." He had risen, and now addressed us from the hearthrug.
The two disappeared beyond the curtain. "What shall we do," said Stuart, "if you are summoned?" "I shall throw open those curtains the moment I reach them, and present my pistol at the head of whoever is on the other side. You ssh!" The old woman reappeared, looked slowly around and then held the curtains slightly apart to allow of the Chinaman's coming out.
But go ahead, old man, Beethoven's behaving himself now." Indeed, as if he were satisfied with his protest, the little beast remained quiet, while his lord and master went through the piece. He did not even interrupt at the refrain: "Kiss me, good-night, dear love, Dream of the old delight; My spirit is summoned above, Kiss me, dear love, good-night."