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And I have had so many splendid plans and plots in my brain; but when they come out, they are flat and weak. I don't ever expect to stand on the top-most round; but I can't stay down at the bottom always. I would rather not be anywhere." Ben comforted her in his quiet fashion. "Oh, what should I do without you!" she cried. "I want to achieve something for your sake." "You will achieve.
I daresay he thought also that it would be a nice place for North Wind to call at, in passing. Below him spread a lake of green leaves with glimpses of grass here and there at the bottom. As he looked down, he saw a squirrel appear suddenly and as suddenly vanish among the top-most branches. "Aha! Mr. Squirrel!" he cried. "My nest is built higher than yours!"
He hurried back with the dismal intelligence, and Mrs Price immediately acted upon his advice, and the whole party were soon assembled in the top-most room of the house. "We can go no higher," said Mrs Price; "but, children, let us pray to God for help."
But Violet felt that he was her peer, if not her superior, in every respect save that of wealth; that a grand future lay before him grand because he would climb to the top-most round in the ladder of his profession, if energy, perseverance, and unswerving rectitude could attain it. He might be poor in purse now, but what of that?
"The canoe!" gasped he. "Quick! One, two, " Up went Suarez over the rail. He found the top-most rungs of the ladder. As he descended, the revolver followed his eyes. When his head was level with the deck the order came: "Take the dog and go down." "I cannot, señorita." "You must try. You are going down, dead or alive." He did try.
Johnson, the Lawyer and the Clerk. The young Earl waves his hand, and every door and window, in the spacious edifice is thrown open. Such a shout arises as makes the very welkin ring. He stops upon the top-most step, Capt. Williams and the others by his side. Every sound is hushed as he speaks. 'It is not outside, my friends, whom I hope I may never give reason to regret this day.
Thereupon Master Jock, with commendable determination, extended his hand towards the top-most bundle lying before him, which contained the accounts of his agent János Kárláts, and began fumbling about with it till he arrived at the conviction that he could make neither head nor tail of it, whereupon he handed it back to Mr. Peter, who immediately found the schedule he was looking for.
But in a few hours you will realize what it means to be kept on this bare rock under a tropical sun. You can do one thing. Your party greatly outnumbers mine. Climb to the top-most pinnacle and signal to the island. You will soon be seen." He laughed with a savage irony that was not good to hear, but Coke caught at the suggestion.
None of the sparrows had left the roost. The storm of chatter increased and the buzz of wings quickened into a steady whir, the noise holding its own with that of the ice-wagons pounding past. The birds were filling the top-most branches, a gathering of the clans, evidently, for the day's start.
He never had a thought of leaving her during these days of dire trouble, and he had lodged all this while in a tiny room on the top-most floor of this house in the Rue de Charonne.
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