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"And now to finish our well," said William, as soon as dinner was over. "How hard you do work, William!" said his mother. "So I ought, mother. I must learn to do everything now." "And that you will very soon," said Ready. They rolled the cask to the spring, and, to their astonishment, found the great hole which they had dug not two hours before quite full of water.
The signature puzzled him; it consisted of two letters, initials evidently, a very large j, not capitalized, followed by a very small capital C. "Now, who's J.C.?" he muttered. "I can call to mind no J.C. who would be writing me letters!" As he read the note a look of astonishment came into his eyes. It ran: "Deer buck, I am shure up against hard luck.
It is not worth while recording Bessie's noisy expressions of astonishment and delight, nor describing Dick Tresilyan's way of receiving notice of the sudden change in their plans.
"There is no blood in it, nor any other animal matter." This was repeated to Mahbub, and, after some further hesitation, he advanced to the table. A moment later, Sylvester was bending above the prints. Then he looked up, his face red with astonishment, and motioned me to approach. "Look at that!" he said, and laid the prints before me.
I exclaimed, while my voice showed the astonishment and admiration that I felt. Here was this gallant old seaman, having just lost an entire navy, setting vigorously to work to make another. "But how can Germany possibly find the money in her present state for the building of new ships?" "There are not going to be any ships," said the great admiral.
He has about as much principle as my foot." Hal had turned round and stared at him in blank astonishment. "Goodness gracious!" she exclaimed, "what an outburst! What has Sir Edwin done to hurt you?" But he stood his ground steadily. "You know it isn't that. If you were my sister, I wouldn't let you go out with him as you do." "Then what a comfort for me, I'm not. And really, Baby dear!
I thought then it was a spirit, and I fainted, as you know, and Doctor Danton was sent for, and he told me it was no spirit, but Harry himself." "Doctor Danton!" exclaimed Kate, in unbounded astonishment. "How did Doctor Danton come to know anything about it?" "Why, it was he oh, I haven't told you. I must go back to that dreadful night when my cousin was shot.
"It seems a pity you wasted two years in Paris," said Hayward. "Waste? Look at the movement of that child, look at the pattern which the sun makes on the ground, shining through the trees, look at that sky why, I should never have seen that sky if I hadn't been to Paris." Hayward thought that Philip choked a sob, and he looked at him with astonishment. "What's the matter with you?" "Nothing.
"I vow I wont live in the house with you if you act in this way! Just as one is getting a little comfortable you begin all this again. I can't stand it; and I won't." Elizabeth did not reply. She looked at Elsie again with a mingled expression of astonishment and fear; but a strange sort of pity softened the glance.
And the others listened in astonishment to this inexhaustible prattle, this "gab," more filled with gold spangles than Dantzig cordial, with which the commercial travelers of the bourse catch their customers. Suddenly: "But you must excuse me," he said, rushing towards the other end of the parlor. Mme. Favoral had just left the room to order tea to be brought in; and, the seat by Mlle.
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