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The sage made an exact minute of these wet-nurse items on a cheap slate with a stub of a pencil; then taking another cheap slate, he proceeded to draw a horoscope thereon, pausing a little over the signs of the zodiac, as if he was a little out in his astronomy, and wasn’t exactly certain whether there should be twelve or twenty.
I never knew a woman of more charming character than Agafya—fancy, her name was Agafya Ivanovna! And she wasn’t bad-looking either, in the Russian style: tall, stout, with a full figure, and beautiful eyes, though a rather coarse face. She had not married, although she had had two suitors. She refused them, but was as cheerful as ever.
Well, finally the two frog boys were at the top of the hill, and they were very thankful, thinking that they could now get away from the alligator, when they suddenly saw that the hill came to an end, and fell over the edge of a great precipice just like the Niagara waterfall, only there wasn’t any water there, of course. “Oh, we can’t go any farther,” cried Bully, coming to a stop.
Talking about assignments wasn’t considered good practice, but Rip was burning with curiosity. "You don’t by chance know what my assignment is, do you?" The captain’s eyebrows went up. "Don’t you?" Rip shook his head. "O’Brine hasn’t told me." "I don’t know a thing," Southwick said. "We got instructions to pack up a pretty strange assortment of supplies for the Scorpius and that’s all I know.
I don’t think Collingwood was trying to be ‘fresh.’ Of course, he shouldn’t have lost his temper and banged the ball at your door—but I think that hardly showed malice.” “It seemed to me it was insolent—and disorderly. I felt the fellows all thought they could do anything with me and I would be afraid to report them. And so I thought I’d show them I wasn’t afraid.”
The doctor arose, and greeted his visitor with a degree of steadiness and politeness that did him the greatest credit. “How do you do, sir?” he said: “I am happy” but it struck him that he wasn’t, and he stopped short. “Very right, my dear sir,” replied the guest, in a voice that was musical but perceptibly sad, or rather patient in tone. “Very right; how hollow those formulas are!
"It isn’t the tea we come for—it’s the knowledge that someone bothers to make it and sugar it and cream it." "I wasn’t laughing," said she. "I wasn’t laughing either," said he. "But it’s true," she went on, "and I think the solution of many unhappy puzzles lies there. Don’t forget if you ever have a wife to pay lots of attention to her."
And the fellow kept blubbering like a woman. ‘It wasn’t me,’ he said, ‘it was he egged me on,’ and he pointed to me. I answered with the utmost composure that I hadn’t egged him on, that I simply stated the general proposition, had spoken hypothetically.
And after that defeat at Glorieta, the retreat to Texas was pure hell with the fires roaring. It seems to have done something to the boy—inside." "Johnny wasn’t the only boy at Glorieta. From what I’ve heard most of them weren’t old enough to grow a good whisker crop." Topham’s voice had lost its detached note. "And he sure wasn’t the only Confederate to surrender.
Koa, can you estimate from the exhaust how far away they are?" "Not very well, Lieutenant. From the position of the streak, I’d say they’re decelerating." The Planeteers looked at Rip. He was in command, and they expected him to do something about the situation. Rip didn’t know what to do. The rocket launcher, their only weapon, wasn’t designed for fighting spaceships.
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