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"Well, I must go an' seek 'im. You stop an' play here. I leave 'em in your care, Toc. See you be good." It would have amused you, reader, if you had seen with your bodily eyes the little creatures who were thus warned to be good.
"Boys and girls," said Thursday, about a month after the birth, "we'll celebrate this event with a picnic to Martin's Cove, if you would like it." There was an assumption of fine paternal dignity about Toc when he said this, which was quite beautiful to behold. His making the proposal, too, without any reference to John Adams, was noted as being unusual.
As the day advanced it blew a gale, and Toc congratulated himself on having resisted the urgent advice of the volatile Dan McCoy to stick at nothing. About sunset the gale increased to a hurricane. John Adams, with several of the older youths, went to the edge of the precipice, near the eastern part of the village, where a deep ravine ran up into the mountains.
Had I been Giselle, I should not have liked it. I know nothing more elegant or more solemn than the entrance of a bridal party into the Madeleine, but we shall have to be content with Saint-Augustin. Still, the toilettes, as they pass up the aisle, even there, are very effective, and the decoration of the tall, high altar is magnificent. Toc! Toc!
He swore that no earthly consideration could induce him to make any sort of terms with my branch of the family. Those were his very words." Toc she pocketed the red. "Fudge," pronounced Miss Sandus. "Capital words for eating. He 'll gobble, he 'll bolt 'em. Give him the chance.
This is Friday, you know, an' as they've bin fastin', poor things, I want to give 'em what you may call mental food, to keep their bread-baskets quiet, d'ye see? But you've got somethin' to tell me, Toc; what is it?" "Father," said Thursday, and then followed a long pause, during which the youth shifted from one leg to the other.
"But, I say, you unhung mutineer, do you mean for to tell me that all them good-lookin' boys an' girls are yours?" He looked round on the crowd of open-mouthed young people, who, from six-foot Toc down to the youngest staggerer, gazed at him solemnly, all eyes and ears. "No, they ain't," answered Adams, with a laugh. "What makes you ask?" "'Cause they all calls you father."
There, under the shelter of a rock, they discussed the situation. "Lucky that you didn't go, Toc," said Adams, pointing at the sea, whose waves were lashed and churned into seething foam. "Yes, thanks be to God," replied Thursday. "It will blow harder yet, I think," said Charlie Christian, who had grown into a tall stripling of about seventeen.
The wolf pulled the string the door flew open; he leaped in, fell upon the poor old woman, and ate her up in less than no time, tough as she was, for he had not tasted anything for more than three days. Then he carefully shut the door, and laying himself down snugly in the bed, waited for Little Red-Riding-Hood, who was not long before she came and knocked, Toc toc, at the door.
On this occasion he took Lieutenant Colcomb as observer: "At Coucy, terribly accurate cannonade: toc, toc, two projectiles in the right wing, one within a meter of me; we went on with our observations in the same place. Suddenly a formidable crash: a shell burst 8 to 10 meters under the machine. Result: three holes, one strut and one spar spoiled.
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