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Of course a member of the household was better than either; so she abdicated without misgiving when as she put it she heard her young ladyship a-coming. Her young ladyship was audible outside long enough for Mrs. Bailey to abdicate before she entered the room. They met on the stairs and spoke. Was that Mr. Torrens at the piano? asked Gwen. Because if it was she mustn't stop him.
Yet under all there's a vague but very real feeling of that unceasing pull upward upon His heart-strings. But though blind and vague and confused that tugging is never the less tense, but ever more, and then yet more. Jesus was God answering the tug of man's need on His heart-strings. And so naturally there was an answering feel in man's heart. Man felt the answer a-coming.
Estelle Clayton came out of the store. "Supper's all ready for you, Mr. Mail-Carrier. Come right in and sit down." "I'm a-coming now watch me," he replied, with intent to be funny. The girls accompanied him into the little living-room. "Oh, my, don't some folks live genteel? See the canned peaches!" "And the canned lobster!" "And the hot biscuit!"
Now looking at this face, it seemed to me in hazy fashion that somewhere and at some time I had seen such a face before. Then, all at once, the knowledge of my situation rushed upon me; I was in the pillory. "Huroor! 'E be a-coming' round!" cried a voice. "Time, too!" shouted a great, strapping fellow near by. "'Tis sinful shame to waste good bad-eggs on rogue as knoweth not when 'e do be hit!
I run down to the street door, and afore I seed anybody a-coming, I let go, and I vow if I didn't let a chap have it all over his white waistcoat. Well, he makes a grab at me, and I shuts the door right to on his wrist, and hooks the door chain taught and leaves him there, and into Marm Lecain's bedroom like a shot, and hides behind the curtain.
'Clear out, I say! he shouted, 'or I'll call for the police. A nice thing for customers to 'ear you a-coming 'ere a-charging me with finding things in goods what I sells. 'Ere, be off, afore I sends you off with a flea in your ears. Hi! constable The children fled, and they think, and their father thinks, that they couldn't have done anything else. Mother has her own opinion.
Andy put his hand to his forehead as if in a dream, and then let me see; what did he do? he wrung his hands and he cried out: "Look yonder, look yonder! Oh, now I see why the Voice never answered me when I asked about the shroud! Now I see. I see my presumption, and I understand the silence 'tis God Himself who weaves the shroud for every Summer. Look yonder at the snowflakes a-coming down!
Are you taking thought for your funeral, or what discourse have you, that you both look like judges?" "Something like it, Hostess," said Elizabeth, with her grave smile. "Truly, we were considering that which may come, and marvelling if we should hold fast." The landlady set her arms akimbo, and looked from one of the girls to the other. "Why, what's a-coming?" said she.
He's a-coming back. Me and him have got a bargain." "What about, Stonie?" came in a much clearer voice from the pillow, and Rose Mary curled herself over nearer to the little bird perched on the edge of her bed. "About a husband for you," answered Stonie in the reluctant voice that a man usually uses when circumstances force him into taking a woman into his business confidence.
And you are already in the hands of a first-rate London doctor, with whom it would be utter affectation for me to pretend to compete. "I shalt expect you by last train on Friday, in accordance with your letter: and, till then, I shalt say, in the words of the old song, 'Oh for Friday nicht! Friday's lang a-coming! "Yours always, "P.S. Do you believe in Fate?" This Postscript puzzled me sorely.
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