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"We are Thists because we eat thistles, you know," continued the High Coco-Lorum. "Do you really eat those prickly things?" inquired Button-Bright wonderingly. "Why not?" replied the other. "The sharp points of the thistles cannot hurt us, because all our insides are gold-lined." "Gold-lined!" "To be sure.
Clark turned it over wonderingly in her hands. Mr. Clark hastily put on a pair of steel-bowed spectacles. "Let me see it," he said, and when he also had inspected it minutely he solemnly tore open the envelope and drew forth my letter. 'I assure you I never awaited the reading of any writing of mine with such breathless interest. How would they take it?
When the two steamers' bridges were level, the liner's captain touched his cap, and a crowd of well-dressed passengers below him listened wonderingly. "Afternoon, Captain. Got 'em all?" "Afternoon, Captain. Oh, we didn't lose any. But a few drowned their silly selves before we started to shepherd them." "What ship was it? The French boat would be hardly due yet." "No, the old Grosser Carl.
Won't we have the laugh on them, though, when we meet them at the city limits?" But the Glow-worm was not waiting for them at the city limits and they were much surprised to learn that it had traveled on over the road to the west. "The southern route?" asked Gladys, wonderingly, "I can't imagine what Nyoda is doing. I'm sure she understood we were to take the northern.
I would have liked to have gotten her a dress, but I didn't dare, so I compromised on a book." "What did you select, Elnora?" asked Wesley wonderingly.
"I can walk by myself," was the pettish reply. "Then you've come back, sir. Tired of your job, I suppose. Oh dear! oh dear!" "I really forgot it for a bit, uncle," said Tom humbly. "Forgot! Yes, you boys do nothing else but forget. Ah! Oh! Oh! I'm a broken man," he groaned, as he sank back in the chair and took hold of the handle. "I'll pull you, uncle," said Tom, looking at him wonderingly.
Old women and children stood in the gateways staring wonderingly at the long procession of vehicles, of which our carriage was a part, all obviously filled with pleasure-seekers and all inexplicable. Pretty girls, without stopping to wonder, accepted with satisfaction so joyous an outburst of merrymaking and unhesitatingly gave us their smiles.
From Avernus to Gitchee-Gummee the Alley rang with praises of Katharine's cleverness. "What's the excitement?" asked Agony wonderingly as she returned to the bungalow in time for supper after resting quietly by herself all day. "The best thing the Alley ever did!" replied Bengal Virden enthusiastically, and recounted the details for Agony's benefit.
"Bring the other on deck for me." The mate complied, wonderingly, and, laden with prime old Jamaica, ascended the steps. "What's this?" inquired the skipper, crossing over to Dick, and holding out a bottle. "Pison, sir," said Dick promptly. "Have a drop," said the skipper jovially. "Not for twenty pounds," said the old man, with a look of horror.
She sat up wonderingly and looked around her, indifferent to the rain which had commenced to fall on her uncovered head. Gradually remembrance came back to her. She saw that she was lying on the great slab of basalt which overhung the Moon Rock. She could hear the beat of the sea far beneath her, but she felt no fear.
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