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Some of the neighbours who best knew the bully's quality gave Andreuccio fair words. "For God's sake," said they, "good man, take thyself off, stay not here to be murdered. 'Twere best for thee to go."
And the group ran away. Two stout soldiers were playing chess in a coffee-house. 'May I slay my mother, said one, 'but I cannot make a move. I fought under him at Nehauend; and though I took the amnesty, I have half a mind now to seize my sword and stab the first Turk that enters. ''Twere but sheer justice, said his companion. 'By my father's blessing, he was the man for a charge.
But she threw the grain deftly amid the wilderness of beaks, and her quavering voice carried as far as the two people who were watching her. She was still harping on the theme of death coming to the farm. "I knew 'twere a-coming. There's been signs an' warnings." "Who's dead, then, old Mother?" called out the young man.
"She promised us that we should know almost as quick as she did, and commanded old Rowe to ring a peal, and then strike one bell loud between if 'twere a boy, and two if 'twere a girl child. 'Tis a boy, heard you, and 'twas like her wit to invent such a way to tell us."
"I was in a bit o' a mullock," Private James Akroyd's letter went on, "t' last time we were i' t' trenches; 'twern't mich to tell abaat, but 'twere hot while it lasted. There's lads says I'm baan to get a V.C. But don't thou hark tul 'em; V.C.'s are noan for t' likes o' me. "Jim." "Is that all?" asked Annie, as her mother folded up the letter.
To me she has proved faithful; with fond love Took me from out the common ranks of men, And like a mother goddess, with strong arm Carried me swiftly up the steps of life. Nothing is common in my destiny, Nor in the furrows of my hand. Who dares Interpret then my life for me as 'twere One of the undistinguishable many?
It were one man thet done it his hoss shod all around 'ceptin' left hind foot. 'Twere too dark to track after I lost him in thu timber, but the whole cavvy is scattered to hell an' gone. Say, Ken, I'm goin' to rue back on that promise; an' I don't see as it's eggsactly fair on the other boys, either.
'Twere cruel in this faithful heart To plant and fix so big a dart, So heal its wound I beg and pray, And be my VALENTINE to-day!" The sender, as is usual in valentines, remained anonymous, and Merle could only guess at the authorship, though she had strong suspicions of Daddy and taxed him with it. "St. Valentine never lets out secrets!" he twinkled. "He's a most discreet old gentleman.
Presently Emily stopped crying, and through the tears came laughter, and she held the toy out for her father and mother to take and examine and admire. A little later Mrs. Gray came from the closet holding a mysterious package in her hand. "Now what be this? 'Twere in th' closet an' looks like somethin' more Santa Claus were leavin'." "Well now!" exclaimed Richard, "what may that be?
'I'm awfully obliged for the money. She turned on a spurred heel and disappeared into the tent, while the carts pushed on past the famine-sheds, past the roaring lines of the thick, fat fires, down to the baked Gehenna of the South. So let us melt and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.
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