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But I say do you see, this affair's to-night, this very evening, and at eight o'clock, and it's past seven now. She'll be arraying herself for the platform. We'd better wait until " Allerdyke's practical mind asserted itself. He twisted the American round in another direction, and called to a porter who had picked up their bags. "All that's easy," he said.
My, but he was glad to see the dolls and Peterkins! All the dogs came to the side of the pen and twisted their heads from side to side, gazing in wonder at the queer figures of the dolls. "We will try and let you out," said Raggedy Ann. At this all the dogs barked joyfully. Then Raggedy Ann, the other dolls and Peterkins went to the gate.
"Oh! who is it?" she said softly, more to herself than to me. I twisted round on the sand and looked behind me. There, coming out on us from among the hills, was a bright-eyed young gentleman, dressed in a beautiful fawn-coloured suit, with gloves and hat to match, with a rose in his button-hole, and a smile on his face that might have set the Shivering Sand itself smiling at him in return.
A convulsive shudder passed through him from head to foot; his face twisted; his eyes dilated. He made a strong effort to control himself and whispered: "I understand. Go ahead. Do it. I can't. It is like destroying me myself.... I can't. Do it " Waram lifted the dead body and pushed it over the edge. Grimshaw, trembling violently, watched it fall.
Alas! alas! only too familiar were the rich brown mottlings of the stock, the steel mountings, the eagle crest, and twisted H. E. cipher! and in sickness of heart the Doctor could not hide from himself the dark clot of gore and the few white hairs adhering to the wood, and answering to the stain that dyed the leather of the desk.
Near by is an old mill alongside the Skell, and a picturesque bridge crosses the stream, while on a neighboring knoll are some ancient yews which are believed to have sheltered the earliest settlers, and are called the "Seven Sisters." But, unfortunately, only two now remain, gnarled and twisted, with decaying trunks and falling limbs ruins in fact that are as venerable as Fountains Abbey itself.
You even shelter yourselves from the injuries of the weather, in mansions that seem calculated to last for ever, in impenetrable houses of brick and stone, that would have scarcely anything to fear from the whole animal creation; but, with us, a few reeds twisted together, and perhaps daubed over with slime or mud, compose the whole of our dwelling.
"It will be many a year since I have played the beau, Father. It may be that I have forgotten the rôle." He spread out his hands and looked at the twisted fingers. "But I can try, like a soldier. And there are three of us, Father Claude, there are three of us." He turned to go back to the camp, but the priest touched him.
And then, not noticing his snigger of satisfaction at having, as it were, drawn her: "What were you doing at Mr. Wardle's?" "Ah what was I a-doing at Moses Wardle's? I suppose you know what he was? Or maybe you don't?" "What was he?" The convict's ugly grin, going to the twisted side of his face, made it monstrous. "Mayhap you don't know what they call a scrapper?" said he. "I don't.
When he saw that he forgot every word he was going to say, and so it was all over with him. And now came the next oldest one. "Good-day," said he. "Good-day to you," said she, and she turned and twisted herself. "It's awfully hot here," said he. "It's hotter over there in the hearth," said she.
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