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Perhaps Theobald was in a good temper; he may have seen from the paper that morning that his stocks had been rising; it may have been this or twenty other things, but whatever it was, he did not scold so much as Ernest had expected, and, seeing the boy look exhausted and believing him to be much grieved at the loss of his watch, Theobald actually prescribed a glass of wine after his dinner, which, strange to say, did not choke him, but made him see things more cheerfully than was usual with him.
Yet, the thought of facing the miser's taunts at such a time filled him with unspeakable dread. And he could not tell her that Dick's arrest was imminent. "Have some food, dearest, and go afterward." "I couldn't eat. It would choke me," Mrs. Swinton said, rebelliously. Netty, hearing her mother's voice, came into the room, her eyes red with weeping. "You've heard, mother?" she cried, plaintively.
You would give me orders when I bring you breakfast? No, no, Peter; that won't do. Come, she is safe there; come and eat with me, where she cannot put a spell on your food to make it choke you." "Do you think she would do that?" That was Peter's voice, stupid and filled with doubt. Bessie laughed at Lolla's cleverness.
"What's the matter, old man?" demanded Percy, putting his arm affectionately on his friend's shoulder. "You look like my collie did when I caught him sucking eggs." "I've missed the trail," Ben burst out with a choke in his voice. The others had gathered around now.
Every nook, every crevice and creek at the foot of the cliff was filled choke full of broken planks and spars, all smashed up into pieces so small that, with the exception of the stump of a main-mast and the heel of a bowsprit, there was not a morsel that exceeded three feet in length, and all laid side by side in such regular order by the swashing of the sea in and out of the narrower creeks, that it seemed as if they had been piled there by the hand of man.
She was clever about cooking the roots from the cellar. But grand'mère's coffee was weaker each day, and only once in a long while did Jacques bring milk. Then he used to stand and order Claire René to drink it all, but she would choke and say it was sour and sickened her; only thus could she save enough for grand'mère's coffee in the morning.
He reached out and grasped the young man by the collar, pulling him up so short as almost to choke him. "Hully gee!" cried the young man whose progress had been so rudely arrested. "Great snakes!" Let me go. This day ain't long enough for me. Let me go." Austen kept his grip and regarded Mr. Tooting thoughtfully. "I want to speak to you, Ham," he said; "better come upstairs."
Perhaps, after all, the hut is well named "Woodbine," and others might be called "Rose," "Violet," "Lily." The discerning eye sees the flowers through the mist of steaming tea. We catch the perfume while we choke in the reek of tobacco smoke, damp clothes, and heated bodies. The British part of the war area in France is dotted over with huts more or less like the "Woodbine."
The wise choke such gypsy impulses admit the mortgage of the Present to the Future and surrender the brisk liberty of youth to the limping freedom of old age. But Donaldson was too thoughtful a man to belong to either the first or second class and yet of too lusty stuff to join the third.
"I has set my heart on something beauteous," she said, "and, oh, dear, Miss Jasmine, you will do it, won't you? You won't let none of them biting disappointments with which the air is choke full, as full as it is of smuts, come in the way. If you three darling ladies spend a crown piece, and take me abroad, we'll be on pleasure bent, and on pleasure alone. Say so, do, Miss Jasmine."
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