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Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning.
After killing the elephant, the natives commenced the less difficult task of cutting it up and carrying it off to their kraal. The feet were reserved for the especial use of the chief; and, while waiting for some of his dependents to procure them, he granted our hunters an audience.
The extraordinary filling up of the senate was undertaken by the monarch alone.
"Where was I? Oh, yes! the Land Company's failin'. Well, it failed and the insurance money went with it. It was discouragin', of course, but I had my house, except for the mortgage, and I had my health again, and, if I do say it, I ain't afraid of work, so I jest made up my mind there was no use cryin' over spilt milk, and that I must git along and begin to save all over again.
Leland's voice faltered with the last words; the exertion of talking so much had exhausted his feeble frame, and closing his eyes, he lay lifting up silent petitions for his child. Evelyn thought he slept, and lest she should disturb him, forcibly repressed her inclination to relieve her over-burdened heart by sobs and sighs.
"You'll agree with me, of course, that there were never any other chicks as handsome as these." Henrietta's neighbors all crowded up to gaze upon the soft balls of down. "This is the first family you've hatched, isn't it?" Polly Plymouth Rock inquired. Henrietta Hen said that it was her first brood. Her neighbors wanted to be pleasant.
Ransome saw that her clothes helped to build up the impression of her strangeness. Violet was dressed as his wife, at the most frenzied height of her extravagance, had never dressed, as even Mercier's wife could not have dressed, nor yet his mistress. And as he took them in he conceived from them an abominable suspicion.
Downey, "that he can't be coming." The middle-aged gentleman, Mr. Soper, was heard muttering something to the effect that he thought they could bear up if he didn't come. Whereupon Mrs. Downey begged Mr. Soper's pardon in a manner which was a challenge to him to repeat his last remark. Therefore he repeated it. "I say, I 'ope we can manage to bear up." "Speak for yourself, Mr. Soper."
One of them, after receiving a wound, was taken up and carried off by his attendants as dead: the other was killed on the spot. Upon this, Caesar took care to secure the king's person, both supposing that the king's name would have great influence with his subjects, and to give the war the appearance of the scheme of a few desperate men, rather than of having been begun by the king's consent.
It's rather significant that he went on when he could have run across the field and caught us up. Have you known him long?" "I met him once," said Helen with an impatient frown. "Rather a good type," Miss Jardine remarked. "I think I should like Canadians, if they're all like that." "He isn't a Canadian."
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