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How I would like to sit and talk with her of how we should bring him up I reached out my hand and picked up a volume of Charles Lamb and read "Dream Children" and as I finished I felt that idiotic choky sensation which I have only begun to know since something in me has been awakened by Alathea or since my nerves have been on the rack I don't remember ever feeling much touched, or weak, or silly, before the war .
James Bowdoin, on coming down to the little office on the wharf rather later than usual, went up the stairs, more than ever choky with that spicy dust that was the mummy-like odor of departed trade, and divined that the cause thereof was in the counting-room itself, whence issued sounds of much bumping and falling, as if a dozen children were playing leap-frog on the floor.
You must always keep it always until you really want it. I felt so bursting all round my heart, and so choky in my throat, that I thought I'd scream there and then; but I kept all my feelings in, and went away, and pretended to dearest auntie that I didn't feel it a bit. Then, you know, she, she died." "She was very cold," said Sylvia. "I saw her I seem to see her still. Her face made me shiver."
Then pretty soon they all felt so choky from that queer smelly smoke that they went out in the air and piled up their things at a safe distance and stood, waiting for the flames to break out and burn down their big Hollow Tree they had lived in so long. But for some reason the flames did not break out, and by and by the smoke seemed to get less.
"Look at this big one with a B on it; that is for Ben, of course, and it is always full. Ben is a great boy to leave his pencils, and his handkerchiefs, and everything else about. Last night he even discarded his necktie because it felt choky. "This pocket is Esther's. She leaves her letters and her discarded handkerchiefs, as well as her gloves.
The mention of his mother made Tom feel rather choky, and he would have liked to hug his father well, if it hadn't been for his recent stipulation that kissing should now cease between them, so he only squeezed his father's hand, and looked up bravely, and said, "I'll try, father!"
The spirited air came to them with a new meaning that had never been plain before. Dick felt the tears in his eyes. Foolish, o course, but he couldn't help it! And choky Dave furtively wished that he dared reach for his handkerchief with all those hundreds of eyes turned on him. As the music came to an end the High School boys filled their lungs for a mighty cheer.
Billy said, "You are engaged to me." How does he know? I never told him so. He hasn't exactly asked me that is, in a way that I would answer him and he always got so choky when on such subjects that I changed them quick, and yet he announces that I am his, and with never so much as by your leave! I am afraid, I'm terribly afraid, I am going to agree with him.
"Don't tell me you pressed half a crown into the palm of the oldest and wisest inhabitant, and found out facts about some nasty young man who was born in seventeen something, and lived in a place called Atlantic View, and wore curls and a choky stock, and fought at Waterloo, and lies in the village church under a stone monstrosity.
Strange that the old dog should die just now! Was it an omen? He turned at the gate to look back at that russet mound, then went slowly towards the house, very choky in the throat. June was at home; she had come down hotfoot on hearing the news of Jolly's enlistment. His patriotism had conquered her feeling for the Boers.
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