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'See what a wonderful lot they thought of our boy up in London, Mr. Le Breton, he said, looking up from the paper tearfully, and wiping his big gold spectacles, dim with moisture.
Smith! Well, it will help to cure me." Mrs. Cameron stood by in miserable silence. "Oh, Dr. Martin," at length she groaned tearfully, "I am so disappointed. I was so hoping, and I was sure it was all right and and oh, what does it mean? Dear Dr. Martin, I cannot tell you how I feel." "Oh, hang it, Mrs. Cameron, don't pity me. I'll get over it.
So Lubin, tearfully overjoyed at the distinction, exchanged the garden for the sick-chamber, into which, as Austin said, he seemed to bring the very scent of grass and flowers; and there he passed his time, day after day, raising the helpless boy in his strong arms, shifting his position, anticipating his slightest wish, and even sleeping in a low truckle-bed in a corner of the room at night.
She has been hanging over you tearfully all day; never going near Miss Evelyn at all. It is so strange she shows such partiality!" Strange that one being on earth, and that one my sister, should love me better than Evelyn, in the eyes of her partial affection; and yet Evelyn treated her with positive disrespect every day of her life, as I never did; and often with severity as well.
I meant to have taken him home to you," he added, sadly. "You will have him now, and will prize him for my sake, will you not, Sis?" "You know, Oscar, that everything you have ever loved or used will be held sacred," she answered tearfully. "Yes, I know," he rejoined. "Sis, I wish you would make me a promise." "You know I will."
"It's beautiful weather for the time o' year," she continued, almost tearfully, "and I have been a-thinking of makin' a call upon you; but I'm short of breath, and Eld is such a creetur he'd rather see a body stop in the house as if it was a prison, than harness the pony and drive me half a mile, to save his life." "Short o' breath!" said Sennacherib. "Thee talkest like one as is short o' breath!
Jim had once attended what was known as a "protracted meeting," for the sole purpose of pleasing his mother, who all at once had appeared tearfully anxious about his "soul." He had not enjoyed the experience. "Are you saved, my dear young brother?" Deacon Whittle had inquired of him, in his snuffling, whining, peculiarly objectionable tone. "From what, Deacon?" Jim had blandly inquired.
This is a nice way to act with my own boys, in my own house! A body'd think " There was the sound of something heavy being dragged laboriously away from the barricaded door; and in a minute a vividly blue eye appeared at a narrow crack. "Oh, I don't see how you dare to L-LIVE in such a place, Aunt Phoebe!" she cried tearfully, opening the door a bit wider. "Those Indians and that awful man "
Seth cried tearfully. "It's the other way, an' Snip an' I are mighty lucky, if for no other reason than that we've seen you. Wait a minute," he pleaded as the invalid was about to speak. "Ever since you got hurt I've wanted to tell everything you asked the other day, an' I promised Snip an' myself that I'd do it the very first chance. If it "
Yet I have sat down opposite a man who gave the government at the door a work-coupon identical with mine, but who furthermore dropped into the waiter's hand "35 cents spig" which is half as bad as to do it in U.S. currency and while I was gazing tearfully at a misshapen lump of vacunal gristle there was set before him, steaming hot from the government kitchen, a porterhouse steak which a dollar bill would not have brought him within scenting distance of in New York.
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