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The window was a mile too high, and besides I could see it from where I was a-sitting. And so I could, you see, plain enough to see if it was opened." The ground-glass partition, in fact, cut off a part of the window of the outer office, which, being at an angle with the inner room, gave a side view of the window that lighted that apartment. "Denson laughed at that," Samuel went on.
As she hurried off to do it, the flutter of her spirits, and the agitation of her manner, were so strange that the Carrier stood looking after her, quite confounded. 'Did its mothers make it up a Beds then! cried Miss Slowboy to the Baby; 'and did its hair grow brown and curly, when its caps was lifted off, and frighten it, a precious Pets, a-sitting by the fires!
"I've been remembering a verse," said Amory when he had been presented to Olivia, "may I say it? It goes: "'I'll speak a story to you, Now listen while I try: I met a Queen, and she kept house A-sitting in the sky." "Come in and say it to my aunt," Olivia applauded. "Aunt Dora is dying of ennui up here." They crossed the terrace in the hush of the tropic night.
Why, I thought you was more account when I saw you last night a-sitting talking with His Honor like his equal. Well, no matter; 'tis something to have a brisk, genteel young fellow for a supercargo. So come, my hearty, lend a hand, will you, and help me set His Honor's cabin to rights."
Ain't it just habit, don't you reckon?" "No, sir, I don't. I ain't a bit satisfied about the way this one acts. I've a blame good notion it's a bogus one I have, as sure as I'm a-sitting here. Because, if it Huck!" "Well, what's the matter now?" "Why, Tom, it's so, sure! It's as solid as a cow. I sort of begin to think " "Huck, it's biting off a chaw of tobacker!
'There's little to relate. I saw an aged, aged man a-sitting on a gate. Where do you want me to begin? 'At the beginning. Don't rot. 'I was born, began Charteris, 'of poor but honest parents, who sent me to school at an early age in order that I might acquire a grasp of the Greek and Latin languages, now obsolete. 'How did you lose? enquired the Babe. 'The other man beat me.
"I trust you with the keys of the wine-cellar, and you've been at the sherry." "You know better than that, Sir John. No, sir. You said that gold plate was an incubus, and such it is, for it's always a-sitting on me, so as I can't sleep o' nights. It's killing me, that's what it is. Some night I shall be murdered, and all that plate taken away.
I ain't a-going to bear no longer with the insults of this boy, and of the person as calls himself a man, a-sitting next to him." The change was effected, to Bob's great satisfaction. "You see, Robert, what you have brought down upon me," Mr. Bale said. "This comes of your telling stories about bottles, when there is a woman with one in her basket next to you."
Well, just when it was at its worst, and I was a-sitting and praying that the roof might keep over our heads, I look round for Angela, and can't see her. 'Some of your tricks again, thinks I to myself; and just then up comes Mrs. Jakes to say that Sam had seen little missy creeping down the tunnel walk.
"Yes, sir, he be a-sitting with John Stukeley, who they say is main bad. It seems as how he has taken a fancy to t' lad, though why he should oi dunno, for Bill had nowt to do wi' his lot. Perhaps he thinks now as Bill were right and he were wrong; perhaps it only is as if Bill ha' got a name in the village of being a soft hearted chap, allus ready to sit up at noight wi' any one as is ill.
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