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Presently she took up her furs and walked humming about the office as she adjusted them. "I'd like to stay all day, but must be going," she said. "Imo and I were wondering, by the way, if you could send us a man with some tar-paper to line our cabins." "Of course. I'll send him after dinner. And he can chop you some wood and bring your water."
Quin imo vates intelligitur potius ac monitor auctu semper religiosus verius quam sævus. Raphael has said that modern Rome was almost entirely built with the ruins of the ancient city, and it is certain that we cannot take a step here without being struck by some relics of antiquity.
"Over in the shack Dave called 'the hospital. Dave was here when we came and Imo asked him to take her to the place; she had heard something of an injured man from Louise Graham. Did Louise really help during an operation?" Lee nodded. "Well, she's odd in many ways. Must be what shall I say? a little thick-skinned not to mind blood and all the rest of it.
Quite a difference, for a fact. And it was plain that Ruth Gardner noted it with discrimination. Imogene Martin now spoke. "I don't think I'll go, Ruth. I've not been feeling well the last day or two, as you know, and I'm afraid to risk the sun." "Oh, come on, Imo. The ride will do you good," her friend replied, with a trace of impatience. "No, I told Mr.
"I shouldn't come alone, of course; it wouldn't be proper and Imo would be horrified. Well, you may as well sit down and talk to me, Mr. Bryant, for you can't work alone, and I've come to stay awhile. Imogene told me what a nice talk she had with you the afternoon I went to the ruins, and I hoped you'd come soon again, but you never did." "Perhaps I haven't been exactly neighbourly."
"Imo writes letters regularly," Ruth explained concerning her friend, "to an instructor in a university in the East. I don't think they're exactly affianced, but expect to be. Waiting, apparently. Waiting until he's a professor and until her health is better, too, I imagine. An agreement to let things rest as they are for the present, one might say.
The prelate then proceeded to disrobe the victims, saying to each one as he did so, "Eximo tibi vestem justitiae, quem volens abjecisti;" to which the oldest pastor, Arent Dirkzoon, stoutly replied, "imo vestem injustitiae." The bishop having thus completed the solemn farce of desecration, delivered the prisoners to the Blood Council, begging that they might be handled very gently.
"Shout your questions, captain," sang out the patient, with much too little humility of manner, yet Lanier knew Curbit well and knew his mission to be unwelcome. Therefore, in Captain Curbit's most official tones, ab imo pectore, came question the first: "Is Trooper Rawdon in hiding anywhere about your quarters?"
"I discovered a large thicket of them half way up the cañon; the more you pick, the more you'll have for supper to-night. And if you don't bring Imo and me a box of chocolates, and a big box, when you come back from wherever you're going to-morrow, you need never show your lean brown face again at our doors! I'm dying for some. Oh, Lee, I really am. They help so when one's lonely."
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