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He described it as resembling what would occur if you fancied a thinnish table-leaf, with a convex warp in it, depressed the reverse way, and suddenly with a spring recovering its natural convexity. It was a loud, sudden thump, which made the heavy candlestick jump, and there was an end, except that my uncle did not get again into a doze for ten minutes at least.
She rose from her chair and began putting up the table-leaf and setting out the necessary dishes for a batch of cake. "Your father wanted you should take an axe and go down where he is in the long lot," she remarked. "And I wouldn't open your head to him about what we've been sayin', Hermie. You talk it over with mother. That's the best way." "Why, course I sha'n't speak of it till I have to."
She staggered to her feet, and dashed from the door. The child looked after her with outstretched arms and whimpered pitifully, but she did not mind its call. "Where's Jane?" her father said, coming in at the back door. "Gone into the woods," she said. "To pray, I reckon." He sat down at the table-leaf lifted from the wall, and his sister served him his breakfast.
Toward the close of the séance the slate was held for some time under the opposite table leaf by Messrs. Furness and Fullerton. Dr. Slade, after cleaning a slate, held it under the table-leaf to his right, in the space between himself and Professor Thompson.
It is international news that you are to wed my niece." "To-morrow it will be international news that I'm not!" The emphasis this time threatened to crack the table-leaf. "I'm not going to risk my liberty with a girl who has no more sense of dignity than she has." "It is very kind of you," murmured the princess. "She'd make a fine wife," went on the prince, ignoring the interruption.
They all seemed to enjoy it: and Ury took out his gum, and put it under the table-leaf before he begun to eat; and I found it there afterwards. He was excited, I s'pose, and forgot to take it agin when he left the table. Philury looked pretty. She had on a travellin'-dress of a sort of a warm brown, a color that kinder set off her freckles.
Its peculiar formation, however, was hid from view by carefully trained bushes at its lower extremity. This care had been taken to hide a secret passage, which led along the bank, under the table-leaf rock just described.
In fact, they all babbled together, over the basket of luncheon which the middle sister opened after springing up the little table-leaf of the window, and spread with a substantial variety including fowl and sausage and fruit, such as might tempt any sick appetite, or a well one, even.
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