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A heavy hand grasped his shoulder and swung him around, while old Bob West, panting for Breath, exclaimed: "Stop, you fool stop! The other one is running." "The other one!" echoed Arthur, wonderingly. "Of course. Bill Sizer was sure to run; he's a coward, as all bullies are. Quick, Weldon, save the day and your reputation or I'll never stand your friend again." Arthur understood now.
First she saw a number of small boxes, innocent appearing affairs which suggested soda-crackers. Beyond them was something covered with a blanket; Norton stepped by her and jerked the covering aside. Startled, puzzled by what she saw, she looked to him wonderingly. Placed neatly, lying side by side, their metal surfaces winking back at the light of Norton's match, were a number of rifles.
When I'm flush, I sleeps at the Newsboys' Home, an' when I ain't, I takes the softest corner I can find in a alley or on a doorstep," was the indifferent reply. Nan looked troubled. "But I can't do that," she said. "I can't sleep in the street with Little Brother." "Why not?" questioned Tode, wonderingly. "Oh because girls can't do like that." "Lots o' girls do."
While he looked at her, half wonderingly, half pityingly, half tenderly a queer word that last, but the feeling was caused by her resemblance to Leoline she had been moodily watching an old gray rat, the patriarch of his tribe, who was making toward her in short runs, stopping between each one to stare at her, out of his unpleasantly bright eyes.
We had now come round to the end of the bridge, and I saw that it was far more curious than I had perceived before. 'Why is it so narrow? I asked, wonderingly, for it was not three feet wide, and had a parapet of stone about three feet high on each side of it. 'Ah! he replied, 'that's it, you see. As old as the hills.
Their eyes met and they laughed again. Truly, life just then was exceedingly pleasant for the two on the deck of the Lusitania. "But I was looking for you before that, Opal long before that weeks!" The girl was truly surprised now and turned to him wonderingly.
Derry seemed to be well known here, and his waiter viewed his approach with an air of proprietorship. "It's dead quiet here," thought Amarilly wonderingly. "Like a church." It was beginning to dawn upon her alert little brain that real things were all quiet, not noisy like the theatre. "What shall we have first, Amarilly?" inquired her new friend with mock deference. "Bouillon?"
"Now, why would any one whip a nice little boy like you?" she asked wonderingly. "She" Billy from his refuge waved toward Margaret "she was going to whip me 'cause her cats fought, when I tied their tails together and hung them over the line to dry. How did I know her old cats would fight?" Mrs. Comstock began to laugh suddenly, and try as she would she could not stop so soon as she desired.
She raised her head to look. A dim, silvery light shone mysteriously in revealing the black walls above them, the tossing water below. It had been within a foot of their resting-place, but it had dropped fully six inches. Evelyn felt a great throb of relief pass through her. Only then did she fully realise how great her fear had been. "Is that the moon?" she asked wonderingly.
If the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb, I suppose the hawks and vultures take care of themselves. I have tried my luck as a shorn lamb, and the tempest has been very bitter for me; so I have no alternative but to join the vultures." Mary Anne Kepp stared wonderingly at her mother's lodger.
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