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We may not live to reach the wrack, for it seems to me to grow colder and colder!" "I wonder we hear no more of the cries," remarked Roswell, who was thinking of the distress he was bent on relieving. "One would think that a man who could call so stoutly would give us another cry."
'But all you'll ever take of Englan' will be same as you took before a tuppenny tip if you serves the soup up nice, or a penny tip if you gives an Englishman a proper clean shave. The rifle opposite banged again and the bullet slapped into the top of the parapet. 'That drawed 'im again, chuckled Private Robinson, 'but I wonder why the corp'ril didn't get a whack at 'im.
No wonder the poor fellow we spoke of, who always belongs to this class of slightly flavored mediocrities, is puzzled and vexed by the strange sight of a dozen men of capacity working and playing together in harmony. He and his fellows are always fighting. With them familiarity naturally breeds contempt.
"Over to the fair you must go to-morrow morning, and take the black cow with you and sell her." And off in the morning at an early hour brave Jack started, and never halted until he was in the fair. When he came into the fair, he saw a big crowd gathered in a ring in the street. Said Jack to himself, "I wonder what are they looking at."
"Not very civil, I don't think," said Beale, "considerin' " "Oh, she's all right," said Dickie, wondering very much, and very anxious that Beale should not wonder. "May I ride in the pram, farver? My foot's a bit blistered, I think. We ain't done so much walkin' lately, 'ave us?" "Ain't tired in yourself, are you?" Mr.
The startled scholar, with a cry of terror, flung up his hands, and then clutched black Hannibal around the neck. Thus, in the manner of John Gilpin, "His horse, who never in that way Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. "Away went Gilpin, neck or nought; Away went hat and wig; He never dreamt when he set out, Of running such a rig."
"Oh, he will get employment," cried Mara, enthusiastically; "his disabled condition in itself will plead eloquently for him. How old is Ella?" "She must be eighteen or thereabout." "I wonder if she wouldn't like to help me?" "Help you? She'd be delighted. But then, my dear, you must not be carried away by your generous feeling.
"I am going to bed to dream of that. It is a pity some of the rest of us childless slackers had not done as well as Josephine. She took her risk. She was lucky." "She did," replied the Nurse, "but she did not realize anything of that. She was too simple, too unanalytic." "I wonder?" said the Critic. "You need not, I know." Her eyes fell on the Lawyer, and she caught a laugh in his eye.
Well might they fear and wonder, for of the twenty and one wizards eleven were dead, four were paralysed by shock, five were flying in their terror, and one, Hokosa himself, stood staring at the fallen, a very picture of despair.
Lindsey, drawing the reluctant guest over his hospitable threshold. "No wonder she looks like snow. She is half frozen, poor little thing! But a good fire will put everything to rights!"
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