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After regaining the road, they moved till noon, when their horses were watered at a well called Kanimani, or the sheep's well, where some really sweet milk was brought to them, in immensely large basket bottles, some holding two gallons and more. They had drank and acknowledged its goodness, and how grateful it was to their weak stomachs, before they found out that it was camel's milk.
There was no bread in the closet, and for the whole day he had not tasted food. Yet he sat humming to keep up his spirits. Still at times he thought of his loneliness and hunger, and he could scarcely keep the tears from his eyes, for he knew that nothing would be so grateful to his poor mother as a good, sweet orange, and yet he had not a penny in the world.
In the old days, you know, he was a clerk in our office in Chicago." Garvey rattled on and Shorthouse listened with occasional remarks thrown in. The former seemed pleased to have somebody to talk to and the sound of his own voice was evidently sweet music in his ears. After a few minutes, he crossed over to the sideboard and again took up the decanter of whisky, holding it to the light.
Yet by and by she could not help looking at him across the table with another soft appeal in her sweet eyes which plead dumbly for old times' sake.
I purchased a nice property in the country, built a Church upon it, and have ever thanked God, who never forsakes those who wish to act righteously. "It pleased God to take all my sweet children from me every state has its trials the youngest was just like your little flower-girl." Mrs. Newton was much pleased with this story; she then told her own, and little Fanny's.
Still, June is a society girl; I know little of that side of her life. 'Then do you know if she has a friend who is, or may be, a fortune-hunter, one whom you distrust? I saw the quick colour flush her sweet face and leave it pale again, and again for a moment she seemed to hesitate.
Of course he understood readily enough: Molly's girl, flesh of her flesh. And she had rushed to him as she would have rushed to her father. He patted her shoulder clumsily, still a little dazzled for all the revelation in the analysis. The sweet intimacy of it! The door of Paradise opened for a moment, and then shut in his face. "I did not recognize you at all!" she cried, standing off.
"I never slept so well in all my life!" exclaimed Mother Bobbsey, when she was getting ready for breakfast the next morning. "The sweet air of the lumber camp seems to agree with all of us." Bert and Nan, as well as Flossie and Freddie, also felt fine, and they were ready for a day of fun.
But when to-morrow came there was no hill, and when the sultan opened his eyes he could not imagine why the room was so much lighter than usual, and what was the reason of the sweet smell of flowers that filled the air. 'Can there be a fire? he said to himself; 'the sun never came in at this window before.
If you are sick of the worry and fret and jar of contemporaneous life here at home, if you care for wide, sweet blue sky, eternal flowers, crystal fountains, and gypsy music, then there is no better place for you to go than to Puerto Rico. Take a bicycle and ride from Ponce around the island or straight across to San Juan.
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