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"Nobody home at The Dreamerie " He took her face in his calloused hands, drew her to him. "You're sweet in that calico gown," he informed her, waiving a preliminary word of greeting. "I love you," he added softly, and kissed her. She clung to him. "You should not have come here in broad daylight," she protested. "Oh, you big, foolish, impulsive dear!
Within half an hour, the deceased and the captive appeared together in the same room, at the Horse-shoe. What must then be the feelings of a mind, susceptible of impression by nature, but weakly calloused over by art? This is one instance, among many, which shews us, a life of innocence, is alone a life of happiness.
The young man was calloused. His job was to settle claims and save money. His value increased as his settlements were small. "Where's Hammil?" "At the General Hospital." Bonbright got up and went to the closet for his hat. "Come on," he said. "You're not going up there, are you?" "Yes." "But but I can handle it all right, Mr. Foote. There's no need to bother you."
So that problem was solved. A minute later, the three pups reappeared at the end of the section. And behind them came the attendant, intoning: "Novice Class, Male Scotch Collies! Numbers 64, 65, 66, 67." There was an absurd throbbing in Link Ferris's meridian. His calloused hands shook as he unchained Chum and motioned him to leap from the bench to the ground.
She was brown as a berry and just the type of hard-working woman to make a good homesteader, with calloused, capable, tireless hands. She was round, bustling and kind. The Widow Fergus had taken up a homestead with her young son. She looked at the unopened baggage, the dirty shack. Now that was sensible, she said, to rest a few days it was so nice and quiet out here. Homesick? My, no.
In the garments shabby by long use, and with his delicate hands calloused by work in the dock-yard, any one would have taken him for a real fisherman.
He was a big fellow, not more than thirty, with sandy hair and beard, and a pugnacious jaw, his coarse hickory shirt slashed into ribbons, a bullet wound in the center of his forehead, and one arm broken by a vicious blow. His calloused hands yet gripped the haft of an axe, just as he had died fighting.
"Well, the first gentleman of the Bedchamber followed his master soon. I shall go next." "My dear, my dear!" said his wife, gently tapping the bony calloused hand of her husband. "Let him say what he likes, sister," said Zephirine; "as long as I am above ground he can't be under it; I am the elder." A gay smile played on the old woman's lips.
He stroked her head with his calloused, sunburned hand and his eyes filmed with a distant gaze. "I might have knowed it!" he said over and over again; "I might have knowed it! Hush, my silly gal." Her sobbing ceased with magic suddenness. "Then you won't send him away?"
"It don't seem to budge, somehow," said Bull in his big, soft, plaintive voice. Then he waited for the laughter. There was always laughter, no matter what he did or said, but he never grew calloused against it. It was the one pain which ever pierced the mist of his brain and cut him to the quick. And he was right. There was laughter again. He stood suffering mutely under it.
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