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ON the top of this there followed an attempt to poison Th' Owd Un. At least there was no other accounting for the affair. In the dead of a long-remembered night James Moore was waked by a low moaning beneath his room.
She was sitting up in the bed with a shawl around her. 'Danel, she said, 'there's something lumbering around the boat. Hadn't you better slip down an' see about it? I told mother I reckoned it was a swimmin' tree. Sometimes they hit against the boat when they go down. Then I waked Mart up an' told him mother heard somethin' bumpin' against the boat, an' I reckoned it was a swimmin' tree.
"'You are quite a distance from home, says she. "'I'd have gone a thousand miles farther, says I. "'Not if you hadn't waked up when the train started in Shelbyville, says she; and then she turned almost as red as one of the roses on the bushes in the yard.
When Charlotte had waked from her nap, he followed Anderson into the sitting-room, where was Charlotte in Mrs. Anderson's voluminous, white frilly wrapper, a slight young figure scalloped about by soft, white draperies, like a white flower, seated comfortably in the largest, easiest chair in the room. Mrs.
The plan worked excellently; no one was retarded, and all were intensely busy. ="Waking Up the Mind."= The main thing in any school is not the amount of knowledge which pupils get from textbooks or from the teacher, but the extent to which the mind appropriates that knowledge and is "waked up" by it. Mr.
In the middle of the night Brown was roused from his sleep by Smith crying out in great alarm, and asking who was in the room. Brown, who was very angry at being waked up, told him not to be a fool that there was no one there. The second night Smith roused him again, this time in greater alarm than the first night.
She had half waked on being taken from the cart, but had immediately fallen asleep again; though she was still vaguely conscious of being borne along to some place of safety and repose, and that her devoted husband and her faithful servant were her bearers vaguely conscious also of being laid down upon some level place of perfect rest, with a roof above her head; but beyond this she knew nothing, cared nothing, being too utterly prostrated in mind and body to rouse herself to any utterances, or even to save herself from sinking to sleep.
We knew he was awake, because he leaped to his feet the instant we entered the door. "Oh, it's you!" he said, recognizing me; I noted the alarm in his voice. I beckoned to him, softly. "Come here a moment;" and he came out into the ante-room. At the same time Old Joe stepped across the big room, and stooped down and waked up Lynch.
When Anne came up to bed, Libbie was still sitting, watching the shadow, and she directly asked to whom it belonged. "It will be Margaret Hall's lad. Last summer, when it was so hot, there was no biding with the window shut at night, and theirs was open too: and many's the time he has waked me with his moans; they say he's been better sin' cold weather came." "Is he always in bed?
I sold at a very high price, for people believed it was a splendid property. After this I found another mine and made money hand over fist. I warned old Brandon, and so did every body, but he didn't care a fig for what we said, and finally, one fine morning, he waked up and found himself ruined. "He was more utterly ruined than any man I ever knew of, and all his estates were sold.
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