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Through it all Claude kept up his half-humorous banter and altogether serious daily advice, without once realizing that any-thing sentimental connected him with it all. He knew she liked him, and sometimes he felt a little annoyed by her attempts to please him, but that she was doing all that she did and ordering her whole life to please him never entered his self-sufficient head.
Cooper, instead o' putting it about that she looked young enough to be his mother, it wouldn't have happened." His daughter shook her head impatiently and, on Mr. Gunnill making an allusion to breakfast, expressed surprise that he had got the heart to eat any-thing. Mr.
"Dorrie is hungry," she said, "and I think it would be well if you would arouse one of the maids and have something nice prepared for her." "I will; what shall it be?" said the man, springing nimbly to his feet, but scarcely able to credit his ears. "A dropped egg and a slice of toast, with a glass of milk, will perhaps be forthcoming as quickly as any-thing " "Wait, Phil don't call anyone.
I looked to see it bit off, but the pup only opened his eyes, looked foolish, an' tramped down another acre of imaginary grass; finally goin' to sleep again an' usin' my feet for a piller. Talk about grit! That little cuss was willin' to fight any-thing that walked.
The sentence ended with the picturesque rapid CRESCENDO employed by maidens of her type in describing a convulsive experience. "Just didn't he," joined in another. "I never saw ANY-thing so funny in all my BORN DAYS. I was AFRAID to look at either one of YOU; I knew if I DID I would BURST RIGHT OUT laughing. I couldn't've HELPED it I know I COULDN'T, if I'd'a knowed I'd'a DIED the next MINUTE."
"Do sit down, Armstrong. I want to speak with you a moment." Yet it was the colonel who was the first to break the silence. "May I ask if you have had time to look at any of the letters, sir?" "Do I look as though I had time to do any-thing?" said the chief, dropping his hands and uplifting a lined and haggard face, yet so refined. "Anything but work, work, morn, noon and night.
"You don't mean to tell me," she exclaimed, with a sudden light in her eyes, "that you, my well-behaved Andrew, have been playing around? You are not going to be a corespondent or any-thing of that sort?" "I used the word 'political," he reminded her coldly.
But at first they could not raise any-thing to eat. They had brought flour and oat-meal from England. But they found that it was not enough to last till they could raise corn on their new ground. Win-throp sent a ship to get more food for them. The ship was gone a long time. The people ate up all their food. They were hungry. They went to the sea-shore, and found clams and mussels.
The boy was startled and his eyes were big. Dorothy had a green streak through the center of her face where the blue and yellow lights came together, and her appearance seemed to add to his fright. "I I don't s-s-see any-thing funny 'bout it!" he stammered. Just then the buggy tipped slowly over upon its side, the body of the horse tipping also.
"Who?" ses Bill; "why, Webson, the landlord. You don't mean to tell me you ain't heard about it?" "Heard wot?" ses Ginger. "I haven't 'card any-thing. I've been indoors with a bad cold all the week." "Webson and Julia Tucker was married at eleven o'clock yesterday morning," ses Bill Lumm, in a hoarse voice. "When I think of the way I've been done, and wot I've suffered, I feel 'arf crazy.
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