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Any sympathetic qualms are likely to be outweighed by the consideration that a State of this hybrid nature would tend to be more than ever a vassal of Germany. Moreover, there can be no doubt that one of the surest means of bringing Germany to her knees is by crushing her most formidable ally, and thus tapping some of the sources of her own military and economic strength.
"Oh! he's a clever young chiel, wi' a door-plate on his bonnet; the sexton, I tak' it." Not making much out of this information, the conductor left him to make inquiries ahead, tapping his forehead significantly to some passengers near, who had overheard the conversation, and who, as soon as the conductor was out of sight, began to question the "harmless lunatic."
To her surprise Bobby was there at her feet, frantically wagging his tail, and he raced her to the gate. She caught him on the steps of the dining room, and held his wriggling little body fast until Tammy came up. It was a tumultuous little group that burst in upon the astonished landlord: barking fluff of an excited dog, flying lassie in clattering big shoes, and wee, tapping Tammy.
It is the objective point for great quantities of freight by boat up the river, to be from thence distributed through the whole southern section of Minnesota by means of the important railway line extending from this city to the interior, tapping the St. Paul and Milwaukee road at Owatanna, and the St. Paul and Sioux City at St.
They say he used to amount to something, but he's gone up here," he added, tapping his head. "What's the captain's name where can I find him?" "His ship's in now, I think. Go down to the levee and ask for the cap'n of the Creole." "I will, but first let me tell you that I have come for this man. I know his father. I'll get back as soon as I can." "All right.
Almost immediately the recollection of all that had occurred yesterday rushed over her with stunning force, and the sunlight, the bird song, and that futile rose tapping softly there against the window-pane, seemed stupidly incongruous. Nan felt she almost hated them. Only a few hours before she had said good-bye to the man she loved. Not good-bye for a month or a year, but for the rest of life.
She drummed on the window with impatient fingers; and then, drowning the little tapping noise they made, came the sound of an opening door and Melrose's placid voice announcing: "Mr. Quarrington." Magda whirled round from the window. "Michael!" she exclaimed joyfully. "I was just wondering if you would be able to get over this evening. I suppose you came while you could!" laughing.
There was a long silence, broken only by the uneven tapping of the hardwood mallet. By and by she said, "I never felt a thing," and then she smiled at him very prettily beneath the rubber dam. McTeague turned to her suddenly, his mallet in one hand, his pliers holding a pellet of sponge-gold in the other.
She finished with a smile which Mrs. Bowman decided was charming. "Oh, you sly child!" she exclaimed, playfully tapping the round cheek with her fan. "Did you meet him when he was abroad this summer?" "Oh, no, indeed!" said the girl, laughing now in spite of herself. "Oh, no; it was after his return." "Then it must have been in the Adirondacks," went on the determined interlocutor.
It is wonderful how their expression can change. They seemed to grow small, with a hard, pitiless look in them, and little cobwebs of wrinkles gathered near her temples. "'It would be madness! folly! And her foot kept tapping the carpet. "'Caraffa and Lorraine are right; it would be a sin. And the King crossed himself. 'No, no! I will purge the land of its heresy.
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