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Bruce rose to his feet and stretched himself, an after-supper operation that always preceded his announcement that he was going to turn in. "Fine day to-morrow," he said, yawning. "Look how white the snow is on the peaks." "Bruce " "What?" "How heavy is this bear we're after?" "Twelve hundred pounds mebby a little more. I didn't have the pleasure of lookin' at him so close as you did, Jimmy.
Kukor's stand. Backed by her, he meant to keep the book and read it every minute he could. So with Big Tom once more in the kitchen, having an after-supper pipe in the morris chair, Johnnie ignored Cis's silent invitation to join her in the window, and brought his bedding from her room, spreading it out ostentatiously beside the stove.
"When they when the colonel returns tell him we'll be over to smoke an after-supper pipe with him a little later, will you? And give our compliments to her." With a half-sneer on his lips he rejoined Nome, who stared hard at him, and followed him through the outer door. "Now, what the devil does this mean?" Nome demanded when they were outside. "If you have anything on your mind, Steele "
It is the hour of supper; and the supper-beer, and the after-supper nightcaps, for those who indulge in them, have to be procured from the publican.
It has, like all their phrases, an unconscious touch of sacred inspiration in it, in the selection of the good word "good," which lays peculiar benediction on all things to which it is set. If there were no other reason against children's having lessons assigned them to study at home, we should consider this a sufficient one, that it robs them of the after-supper hour with their parents.
Honest, "it is a hard one; hard to expound, and harder still to practise." Yes; this after-supper riddle of Mr.
And if he had known that the Circle Bar boys were camped just three miles away within hailing distance of the Lazy Eight trail, he would doubtless have postponed his after-supper smoke. He was sitting, revolver in hand, watching the Wagners give a practical demonstration of the extent of their appetites, when Thurston limped in from the porch, his eyes darker than usual.
We occupied the short hours of light in reading old newspapers and magazines, or walking out over the hills, and in the evenings called upon the Post officers or entertained them in our cabin, where Mathewson often came to smoke his after-supper pipe and relate to us stories of his forty-odd years' service as a fur trader in the northern wilderness.
A smile lit up the brown, old, wrinkled face as he heard my voice for I was lying down in the sitting-room, smoking my after-supper pipe as he answered in the island dialect that he was well, but that his house was in darkness and he, being lonely, had come over to sit with me awhile.
Then she struck off down Grand Avenue and past Donovan's pool shack. A little group of after-supper idlers stood outside, smoking and gossiping, as she knew there would be. As she turned the corner she saw Nap Ballou among them. She had known that, too. As she passed she looked straight ahead, without bowing. But just past the Burke House he caught up with her.
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