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"Sometimes he uses a ferrule, but more often he stands there by one of the windows making a pen, and out of the corners of his eyes watches every one of the eighteen scholars. He always has a stout hickory in his hand or under his arm. The other day there was a disturbance on one of the benches, and without waiting to find who was guilty he laid his hickory across the backs of every one of us."
I wish very well to M. Schmucke, but he is in a delicate position with regard to the heirs and as the German is almost nothing to me, and the President and Count Popinot are a great deal, I recommend you to leave the worthy German to get out of his difficulties by himself. There is a special Providence that watches over Germans, and the part of deputy guardian-angel would not suit you at all.
"The vicuna is polygamous fights for his harem with desperate fierceness, watches over its number while they feed or sleep, chooses the ground for browsing and rest defends them against enemies heads them in the advance, and covers their retreat with his own `person' such is the domestic economy of the vicuna. I should get every one of them. "`How? I inquired. "`Oh! they would! ha!
"You let me alone." "I'm going to see that watch." With his free hand he felt under her sleeve and drew down the bracelet. "So the mill gave it to you, eh? That's a lie, and you know it." "I'll tell you, Rudolph," she temporized. "Only don't tell father. All the girls have watches, and I wanted one. So I bought it." "That's a lie, too." "On the installment plan," she insisted.
"This be the castle's crypt," whispered Joan; "and they do say that strange happenings occur here in the still watches of the night, and that when the castle sleeps, the castle's dead rise from their coffins and shake their dry bones. "Sh!
"Allowing for the difference in our watches, Tom, your father and I figure that you did the course at the rate of one hundred and twelve miles an hour!" "One hundred and twelve!" gasped the young inventor, hardly able to believe it. "I made it a hundred and fifteen," said Mr. Swift, who was almost as pleased as was his son, "and Mr.
Then Enrica waves her hand toward the palace opposite, a side-door opens piano, Nobili appears, and watches all round to see that no one is near ha! ha! his young eyes didn't spy out my old ones though, for all that Nobili appears, I say, then he puts his hand to his heart, and gives such a look across the street! Ahi! it makes my old blood boil to see it. I was pretty once, and liked such looks.
Men possessed by watches in their vest pockets cannot be inspired, men possessed by churches or religion-machines cannot be prophets, men possessed by school-machines cannot be educators. The reason that we find the poet, or at least the minor poet, discouraged in a machine age probably is, that there is nothing a minor poet can do in it.
"'Tis nothing," he explained contemptuously. "No more than the bite of a harmless snake in the grass. A dog of a servant who came over with us one of Monmouth's brood. He has no knowledge of who I am, nor suspicion of my purpose. It is not that, yet the fellow watches me like a hawk. We had some words aboard and there is hate between us" "If he was indentured, how came he on the sloop?"
The Indians had mounted, and were sitting like so many bronze statues, waiting for the Doctor's permission to go; for military precision and discipline had of late been introduced, and regular guards and watches kept, much to the disgust of some of the Englishmen, who did not scruple to say that it was quite unnecessary.
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