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Her silence and this look on her face actually caused to dawn in the breast of Selden a gleam of daring hope. He looked round at her with a faint rising of colour. "Say, Miss Vanderpoel say " he began, and then broke off. "Yes?" said Betty, still thinking. "C-COULD you use one anywhere?" he said. "I don't want to rush things too much, but COULD you?" "Is it easy to learn to use it?"
His back is weak because he won't try to sit up. I could have told him there was no lump there." Colin gulped and turned his face a little to look at her. "C-could you?" he said pathetically. "Yes, sir." "There!" said Mary, and she gulped too.
I was in a b-batteau. They gave me an oar, and made me work for all I was worth. If I let up for a minute, they hit me and threatened to k-kill me. That ugly fellow who swore at me the day before was in the boat, and I c-could understand him. He made things very clear, as he jabbed the m-muzzle of his gun into my ribs, and h-held his finger on the trigger.
He also put his other arm round Nestie, and never did he look fiercer. "I have no relatives, and his m-mother's family are all dead; there is nobody to be g-guardian to Nestie, and he cannot live alone. C-could you get some family who would be ... where he might be at ... h-home?
I don't, you know." she paused, frowning, not quite sure where this thought was going to lead her. "They're the best chaps on earth," he murmured. "I c-could have b-been like them." "But what is it makes them wise and fine? It's I think because they get rid of themselves, and let God shine through them to other people." He turned impatiently. She caught his hot, damp, dirty hand in hers.
"I g-guess I d-did. B-but he was so much easier to tackle when he was asleep. Now that he has multiplied his power, I'm n-not sure I c-could do it again." "Oh, but you can! You must," said the monkey encouragingly. "You can't let him keep getting stronger and stronger! Sooner or later, he will find you. And he probably won't stop at that. He may cross the desert and go into the mortal lands.
Mother! My little mother you're sick, you're really sick, and I didn't know and I spoke so harshly. Oh, what is it, what is it, mother dear?" "Bad cold," Mrs. Golden whispered. "I started coughing last night I closed the door you didn't hear me; you were in the other room " Another cough wheezed dismally, shook her, gurgled in her yellow deep-lined neck. "C-could I have window closed now?" "No.
To this he added an apology for his awkwardness and presumption. I replied that, glad though I should have been to serve him, I had nothing, absolutely nothing, at my disposal. "Ah, Makar Alexievitch," he went on, "surely it is not much that I am asking of you? My-my wife and children are starving. C-could you not afford me just a grivennik?
His back is weak because he won't try to sit up. I could have told him there was no lump there." Colin gulped and turned his face a little to look at her. "C-could you?" he said pathetically. "Yes, sir." "There!" said Mary, and she gulped too.
You told me to do the b-b-best I c-could for him, judge, so I've jest given him y-your b-b-bay gelding, an' told him to light out for healthier c-climes, my p-p-professional opinion being he'd be hanged quicker'n h-h-hades if he dallied here. B-by this time my client's 'bout fifteen mile out yonder somewheres. That was the b-b-best I could do for him, may it p-p-please the court."
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