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He spat upon the burnt end of his cigarette stub from force of the habit that fear of range fires had built, and cast it petulantly from him; as if he would like to have been able to throw Dunk and his sheep problem as easily out of his path. "So I wish you boys would hang onto yourselves when you hear a sheep blatting under your window," he summed up his unburdening whimsically.
He paused, looking at her, whimsically pleased to see the warm young blood flushing her cheeks as he spoke, and her eyes drooping under his penetrating gaze.
Mist drifted in from the sleeping sea, and the hush of night brooded over the river as it murmured through the plain. A single star uplifted its exquisite lamp against the afterglow, near the veiled ivory of the crescent moon. Sighing, the man turned away. "Perhaps," he thought, whimsically, as he went cautiously down the path, searching out every step of the way, "there was no sunset at all."
I think it must be important." Came at that instant O'Halloran's ungentle knock, on the heels of which his red head came through the open door. "You're the very lad I'm wanting to see, Bucky," he announced, and followed this declaration by locking all the doors and beckoning him to the center of the room. "Is that tough neck of yours aching again, Reddy?" inquired his friend whimsically.
Grenville's, had, as is well known, but a brief existence, and was replaced by the cabinet so whimsically composed by Mr.
But it was no place for ducks; they swam all over the pond and spent so much time catching bugs on the bottom that they had no leisure for family obligations on land." This gloomy recital met with an interest that prompted him to continue, whimsically: "There was no home life among those ducks none whatever, but they could swim nearly as well as Miss Kellerman.
"I should be very sorry if I had not intellect enough and imagination enough to see what this may mean to my fellow people; and I should despise myself if I should let an unrestrained compassion lose to four million people the rare opportunity vouchsafed them." He spoke very solemnly. Hallowell looked at him puzzled. "Besides," said Darrow whimsically, "I like to devil Eldridge."
But it wasn't about that. Surely, Julia, you and I have things more important to say to each other," he added reproachfully. "I don't know what's more important than money," she assured him whimsically. "Of course I didn't want to use it at all; I should have preferred to be self-supporting at any cost," she went on. "But there was Anna and Mama to consider.
"If you disturb their order in the book, or even the position on the page, the names you send me will mean nothing to me. Not that it will be any great loss," he added whimsically. "I suppose I've become a sort of fan on this, like the business men who claim that their office work interferes with their golf." We walked leisurely back toward the big dormitory.
In the red-hot glow of its presence, and with the inspiring example of courage and fortitude which it presented, how could I have felt otherwise than optimistic? It was such a tiny mite of a stove, and it seemed to have had such a world of misfortune and bad luck! There was something whimsically, almost pathetically, human about it.
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