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Adam said good-bye and went away. An hour later, going down the Fontenoy road, he came upon a small brown figure, seated, hands over knees, among the blackberry bushes. "Why, you partridge!" he exclaimed. "You little brown prairie-hen, what are you doing so far from home? Blackberries aren't ripe." "No," said Vinie. "I was just a-walking down the road, and I just walked on. I wasn't tired.
'Where's it going to end? says he; 'what is yer wages for takin' yer lives where they shouldn't be took? and, says he, 'in a ship what the last skipper died aboard of it, says he, 'died so sudden, and was so fond of his old place as who knows where he is now, afloat or ashore, p'r'aps a-walking this very cabin, and not bringing no luck for the vige, neither, says he.
"Yes, madam; I has seen him often and often along of Miss Nora a-walking in the valley forest, when I have been there myself looking for herbs and roots to make up my vegetable medicines with. And I have seen him go home with her. And at last I said, 'It is my bounden duty to go and tell the madam." "You are very sure of what you say?" "Yes, madam, sure as I am of my life and my death."
Then there came a sound of footsteps along the street, and Doña Maria did recognize the poor monk which was wont to haunt the kitchen and the Palace courtyards, the same she had encountered one day in the flowery path where she was a-walking with two ladies her companions. She shut to the window softly, and to bed again with her lover.
One needs a strong will to take a-walking on Fillmore street and keep from spending all his money. In fact it is better to have no money at all for then one is tempted to hold on to it. Everything in the world is in the windows on Fillmore street everything. There isn't a phase of human activity that isn't represented. Every nation has left its stamp. Spain tamales and enchiladas.
"I doubt it must be so, Hetty," he said, tenderly; "for I canna believe you'd let any man kiss you by yourselves, and give you a gold box with his hair, and go a-walking i' the Grove to meet him, if you didna love him. I'm not blaming you, for I know it 'ud begin by little and little, till at last you'd not be able to throw it off.
Brimberly sang blithely on: "As Dinah was a-walking in her garden one day, Her father came to her and thus he did say: 'Come wed yourself, Dinah, to your nearest of kin, Or you shan't have the benefit of one single pin!" "Ri tooral ri too " Here Mr. Jenkins, chancing to catch sight of that unobtrusive figure, let fall his banjo with a clatter, whereupon Mr.
You get among them Tombs afore it's well light on a winter morning, and keep on, as the Catechism says, a-walking in the same all the days of your life, and YOU'LL know what Durdles means. 'It is a bitter cold place, Mr. Jasper assents, with an antipathetic shiver.
"And misses spoke to him, and he promised not to go round the guards again." "Has he broken his promise?" asked the Captain, with a look of anger and also surprise. "When I opened the door last night, sir," continued Sarah, in her shrill treble, "what should I see in the dark but Master Robert a-walking up and down with the carpet-brush stuck in his arm. 'Who goes there? says he.
"No, no, Tony," said Oliver; "you're very useful, fetching my papers, and taking my little love out a-walking when the weather's fine. I ought to pay you something, instead of taking it of you." "Keep it for Dolly," said Tony, bashfully, and pushing the coin into her little hand. "Sank 'oo," answered Dolly, accepting it promptly; "me'll give 'oo twenty kisses for it."
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