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"Poor Ruthy! so she looks old, does she? I'm goin' to tell her right out, 't was I that spoke first to Tobias." The train stopped at a way station with apparent unwillingness, and there was barely time for one elderly passenger to be hurried on board before a sudden jerk threw her almost off her unsteady old feet and we moved on.
He was holding out his hand to the surprised old gentleman, when the door opened just sufficiently to admit Terry's head. "Come on, your Lordship!" she laughed mockingly, "you've kept me waiting long enough." As Tabs emerged from his interview with Sir Tobias, he found Terry standing in the hall, doing up the last button of her gloves.
But the sunlight penetrated like spears of burning flame, and the air was stifling hot. The paraffin stove that heated irons for Sister Tobias smelled clamorously, and the droning of myriads of flies, not the least of the seven plagues of Gueldersdorp, kept up a persistent bass to the shrill singing of the little tin kettle.
They don't marry again, because the Bible says so: but how some contrytomps is to be avoided I don't see." Chiefly through the loyalty of these three, some weeks elapsed before the breach of friendship between Captain Caius Hocken and Captain Tobias Hunken became a matter of common talk.
"It was Little Sister or nothing for me." But though he gathered up his mass of greenbacks and stalked away with his smart hat on the back of his incredibly sleek head, Tobias was not greatly worried. The young swell was sweet on Child, and wasn't above a flirtation with red-haired Leavitt at the same time he was trying to spoon the English girl.
If you chose to go about like a Red Indian, 'twouldn' be no affair o' theirs, I should hope?" "Why, o' course not," Captain Cai agreed, albeit a trifle dashed. "As you say, we've retired, an' can do as we like." "Ah!" Captain Tobias eyed him and drew a long breath. "Got such a thing as a match about ye?" he asked, pulling forth a short clay pipe. "No yes!" "Good Lord!" he exclaimed stupidly.
You get a quarter for yourself, see? for puttin' me on to the job in time." Mr. Tobias happened to be at a distance when Usher's customer came in and paid. But when the floorwalker inquired, at six-thirty characteristically remembering a small detail in the terrible Christmas rush the transaction had been completed and Little Sister was gone. Even Win had not seen the purchaser.
This was but the first trial by fire. The next time will be more severe!" and with that Jack kicked aside the phosphorous covered sticks and signaled to those holding the ends of the ropes to loosen them. Tremblingly Tobias crawled into the house.
As it seemed expected of me, I expressed my surprise, on which Tobias Offenloch came to sit at my right hand, and said "Doctor, take my advice; order him a bottle a day of Marcobrunner." "And," chimed in Marie Lagoutte, "a wing of a chicken at every meal. The poor man is frightfully thin."
It was the story of Tobias and how he came out from the shelters of his youth into this magic and intricate world. Its heroine was incidental, part of the spoil, a seven times relict.... White had not read the book of Tobit for many years, and what he was really thinking of was not that ancient story at all, but Botticelli's picture, that picture of the sunlit morning of life.
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