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Uncle William bent forward, watching it. In the dim light of the room, his face had a kind of gentleness a kindliness and bigness that watched over the night and reached out beyond it to the ends of the earth. In the morning the big form was still there. The artist turned to it as he opened his eyes. "You are not gone!" "Gone? Land, no!"
But in the absence of external dangers corruption, following wealth, was making fearful strides among the people, and impiety was nearly universal. Every one was bent on pleasure or gain, and prophet and priest were worldly and deceitful.
Interpreting the latter expression with jealous affection, she bent her face to her bosom, and retreated in silence among her companions lo weep.
He was quite shabby, and even ragged in his dress, but he was clearly a gentleman. He was no longer young; his shoulders were bent, and he had the unmistakable stamp and carriage of a student. "Guv'nor's at home," said the assistant briefly. The visitor walked into the sanctum. He had under his arm half-a-dozen volumes, which, without a word, he laid before Mr. Emblem, and untied the string.
At sight of the girl he raised his battered hat and swept it low to his pony's shoulder as he bent in a profound bow. "I seek the majordomo, senorita," he said. "Mr. Grayson is up at the office, that little building to the left of the ranchhouse," replied the girl, pointing.
So they bent their heads to the freezing wind, their arms laden with daring bundles and their hearts uplifted with the tremulous happiness of giving more than they could afford. Meanwhile, Mr. Simeon Peck, honest man, had chosen this season to work harm if he might to the gentlest of his fellow-men. I found Mr. Peck waiting for me at his house.
"Well, you go first then, Marinthy," said old Mr. Beebe, dryly, "with him, an' Phronsie an' I'll foller on. Now then, my dear." He set her on the floor, and bent his old white head down to smile into her face reassuringly, while her trembling fingers held his hand fast. "Polly," said little David, as they brought up the rear of the procession, "I am so very much afraid of that boy."
The latter-day one, politely curious regarding my pet, bent over to accord a casual glance, but the vision meeting his eyes sent the blood in a crimson wave over his tanned cheeks and caused him to draw back with a start.
XXIV. I advance these principles of the naturalists without knowing whether they are true or false; yet they are more like truth than those statements of yours; for they are the absurdities in which Democritus, or before him Leucippus, used to indulge, saying that there are certain light corpuscles some smooth, some rough, some round, some square, some crooked and bent as bows which by a fortuitous concourse made heaven and earth, without the influence of any natural power.
The heads were of thin hoop-iron, and the shafts were of flimsy cane, so that whenever the weapons penetrated to a bone they bent; but he was being slashed to ribbons. One of the Indians grew tired of such slow killing, and stepping back a pace threw his tomahawk. That was more quickly done, and resulted, as Ranger Higgins afterward said, "in a close shave!"
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