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"The King wants it cut down," said Jack. "Well, then, why don't his men cut it down?" asked Paul. "They can't," said Jack. "The tree is so hard that it blunts the edge of every axe; and whenever one of its branches is cut off, two bigger ones spring out in place of it. The King has offered three bags of gold to anyone who will cut the tree down." "How did you learn all this?" asked Peter.
"I come to this vicinity for my health. That fact, as are all such regarding officers, was doubtless published in the Army and Navy Journal, so it might easily become known to almost anyone. I receive a letter which I think is from Tom Swift, asking me to attend the test. As the distance is short I go, only to find that the letter has been forged, presumably by a German.
Now, for example, I don't think anyone has any kick coming at the original manner in which we gave 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'Humpty Dumpty. No one ever saw them so presented before. Of course, if we had one of these modern Shakespeares, that the commercial managers keep on tap, we could have a piece written for us while we were under way to the next night stand. But that's out of the question.
I know a man who was once engaged at Jolly & Monk's the chief publishers of that kind of thing, you know; I must look him up what a mistake it is to neglect any acquaintance! and get some information out of him. But it's obvious what an immense field there is for anyone who can just hit the taste of the' new generation of Board school children.
A servant entered immediately. "If anyone calls, say that I am engaged on business, and can see no one this morning. Place two chairs by the fire, and bring in wine and glasses." Two chairs were moved to the fire. Wine was placed close at hand on a small table, and the count fetched a box of cigars from his cabinet.
Clavering, and the school itself," thought the girl. "But there, I will forget every unpleasant thing now. I have not seen the little Mummy for a whole year; it will be heavenly to kiss her again. If there is anyone in the world whom I truly, truly love it is the dear little Mummy."
I think I do pretty well to give Marcella and Patty their board free, and I have to work my fingers to the bone to do that. It's all nonsense about Patty, anyhow. What she ought to do is to make an effort to get better. She doesn't she just mopes and pines. She won't eat a thing I cook for her. How can anyone expect to get better if she doesn't eat?"
"It matters this much, that I will not allow Miss Vaneourt to be insulted by you or anyone else!" retorted Walden, hotly "You have never spoken to her, you know nothing about her, so hold your tongue!" The Reverend 'Putty's' round eyes protruded with amazement. "Hold my tongue!" he repeated, in a kind of stupefaction "Are you gone mad, Walden? Do you know who you are talking to?"
And so they were sometimes sent far away to fight for the right or to punish wrong, but wherever they went they never knew hunger or thirst or weariness, and they could never be killed or overcome in battle; but no one must ever ask one of these knights his name or his dwelling place, and, if anyone having the right should ask these questions, the knight must return to the temple of the Holy Grail.
Scarcely a man met her who did not turn when he had passed, and look after her; and anyone of these might be an acquaintance. My impulse had been to insist upon her getting into a hansom, and allowing me to see her safe home; but it had occurred to me, upon reflection, that I might compromise her more fatally by being seen with her under such circumstances than could happen if she went alone.
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