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The steamer on which they were to take passage had been delayed by a storm, and had only just arrived at her dock. "It will take three days to get her cargo out, clean the boilers, load another cargo in her and get ready to sail," the agent informed them. "Then what are we to do?" asked Ned. "Guess we'll have to wait; that's all," answered Tom. "It doesn't much matter.
"There," said she, "don't you wait any longer. I guess mebbe you'd better set the dish down on the hearth to keep warm for Elmira and your father first, though." "Ain't you goin' to eat any yourself?" asked Jerome. "I couldn't touch a mite of that stew if you was to pay me for it. I never set much by parsnip stew myself, anyway." Jerome eyed his mother soberly. "There's enough," said he.
When he looked at the canvas, a scowl held his forehead, but when he glanced back at the water, it vanished in swift delight. It was color to dream on, to gloat over to wait for. Some day it would grow of itself on his palette, and then, before it could slip away, he would catch it. It only needed a stroke he would wait. His eye wandered to the horizon.
'You wait till you're placed as he is, and you'll find that you'll say anything that comes uppermost. But what are we to do with him, George? Then the matter was discussed in the utmost confidence, and in all its bearings.
'She's as crooked as a dog's hind leg; she's running neck and neck, fifty-fifty, with Jim Courtot and Monte Devine on all kinds of deals Come on. We've got to burn the earth getting back to Big Run. We'll beat 'em to it yet. 'Wait a minute, Al, called Lee softly. 'Let's get all the dope first. You say, Mr. Longstreet, that you filed on your claim all right?
I shall get on very well. And may I go to my room now?" Von Rittenheim was startled into activity by the simple request. "I think you must wait until some preparation is made. I will go and fetch a woman who will look after you. You will not be afraid if I leave you alone for a few minutes?" "Entirely alone?" "Yes. There is no one here.
Suddenly the train stops short. Clipped heads and tanned faces pop out at every window. The boys begin to moan and shout; what is the matter now? The conductor goes through the cars, saying something about a freight wreck on ahead; he has orders to wait here for half an hour. Nobody pays any attention to him. A murmur of astonishment rises from one side of the train.
The sullen pageant started. "I've heard of this, but who'd have thought they carried the game so far? Well, I must wait till we are in chapel and pick up a pal by the voice, while the parson is doing his patter."
We need not ask with Faust, "Where is that place which men call 'Hell'?" nor wait for Mephistopheles to answer, "Hell is in no set place, nor is it circumscribed, For where we are is Hell!" Now, it is from such central and poignant experiences as these that men have been constrained to look outward for a God. For these mark the very disintegration of personality, the utter dissipation of selfhood.
"Ah!" said Stephen, who had had neither time nor money for breakfast in London. "I told them not to wait for me." So he came to the point at once. He trusted this handsome woman. His strength and his youth called to hers, expecting no prudish response. "It's very odd. It is that I'm Rickie's brother. I've just found out. I've come to tell you all." "Yes?" He felt in his pocket for the papers.
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