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After all, your man of dash and enterprise, your Napoleon, does have his moments. Without looking at her, he perceived that he had bowled her over completely. Something told him that she was staring at him, open-mouthed. Meanwhile, a voice within him was muttering anxiously, "I wonder how much this is going to cost." "You're going to buy 'Squibs!"
"You must be pretty well exhausted with this work coming on top of what you've done all day, and it is no longer necessary for us to travel at full speed." "I am about used up, that's a fact," admitted the little man, laying in his paddle and stretching himself wearily in the bottom of the canoe. "I don't wonder. But I say I how like a trump you bowled that fellow over, on the beach.
Suddenly he was sent flying head over heels, by a blow which completely knocked the breath out of his body; and so instantaneous was the whole affair that all he could ever recollect about it was getting a vague glimpse of the bear just as he was bowled over.
Martha, be sure you give Miss Lovel a good breakfast. Drive back to the Rectory, coachman. Good-bye, Clarissa;" and feeling that he had shown his niece every kindness that the occasion required, Mr. Oliver bowled merrily homewards.
"Don't look at me so horribly!" she cried. "Ask Señorita Mallory about it ask her about me." He jerked up, but did not answer at once. The Glow-worm screamed at him to speak. Framtree crossed the cabin, and dropped his huge hand upon her shaking shoulder. "I have nothing to say, Señora.... It was a matter between you and him.... But I'm glad to help you. It bowled me over a little, that's all."
Then, as Lieutenant Larson tried to get up, he, too, was bowled over by a rush of some more pigs. But the two army officers, and Dick, were football players, and they knew how to take a fall, so were not harmed. Fortunately they had been tossed out on a grassy part of the pen, and away from the muddy slough where the porkers were in the habit of wallowing.
She succumbed, as she always did, when her "Uncle Felix," with his voice lowered to a whisper, his lips held close to her ear, either counselled or chided her, and a new joy thrilled through her as he explained how his plan was to be carried out. Kling lifted up his hands in protest when he heard of O'Day's innovation, but was overruled and bowled over before he had framed his first sentence.
The road at first was level and easy; and we bowled along smoothly through the valley of the Etnaelv, among drooping birch-trees and green fields where the larks were singing. At Tomlevolden, ten miles farther on, we reached the first station, a comfortable old farmhouse, with a great array of wooden outbuildings.
He began pacing back and forth across the room, puffing volumes of smoke from a huge bowled German pipe as he motioned Aldous to a chair. "What's the matter, Peter?" "Enough an' be damned!" growled Peter. "If it wasn't enough do you think I'd be out of bed at this hour of the night?" "I'm sure it's enough," agreed Aldous.
An instant later the shadowy object assumed the unmistakable form of a huge drift log, and before Ned could realize his peril or deal a single paddle stroke, the current whirled the heavy mass upon him, and the blunt end pounded broadside into the Pioneer. The canoe was bowled over like a tenpin, and Ned went head first into the yellow flood.
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