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Perhaps he might come back again. It was a very tenuous hope, but it was the only one Johnnie had. He clumped over the pavements till his feet ached in protest. His patience was rewarded. On the second day, while he was gazing blankly at the post a groom brought two horses to the curb in front of the house opposite. One of the horses had a real cowboy's saddle. Johnnie's eyes gleamed.
The little maids who followed each other in quick succession were all equally inefficient and unreliable. Marcus began to complain that such ill-cooked, tasteless meals would in time impair their digestion. The Marthas and Annes and Sallies, who clumped heavily about the corner house, with smudges on their round faces and bare red arms, had never heard of the School of Cookery at South Kensington.
Wilson's voice sank to a whisper, and the only words audible were "Miss Monica", "evening", and "wouldn't trust". "I'll be extra careful," said Scott, as he clumped away. Lindsay and Cicely waited several moments after the gallery was empty before they ventured to emerge from behind the tapestry. They had the great satisfaction of having learnt something.
Suddenly overcome with confusion, he dislodged a large-sized paper bag from his side coat pocket and thrust it into Judge Priest's hands; then, backing away, he turned and clumped down the graveled path in great and embarrassed haste. Judge Priest opened the bag and peered down into it.
It was the same with his hair, sparse and irregular of growth, muddy-yellow and dirty-yellow, rising on his head and sprouting out of his face in unexpected tufts and bunches, in appearance like clumped and wind-blown grain. In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been so moulded in the making.
"It's predestination; that is what it is. And now let's forget it and talk of something else." We talked of something else or at least Mr. Fenwick did, for I was too ashamed to say much so long that Nancy got restive and clumped through the hall every five minutes; but Mr. Fenwick never took the hint. When he finally went away he asked if he might come again.
The log-buildings of the clearing, every tree-trunk and bough in the woods beyond, the distant skyline of stump and hollow, all stood out sharply against the peculiar radiance of the snow. The night was as still as the spaces between the planets. Like some wild creature of those winter woods the woman clumped and stumbled around the main shack, seeking the door.
The ring that not even death should take from her finger, she dropped it! But that is a bad sign, the worst of all, a countersign of " "Will you go? Old babbler," cried Toinette, springing up in anger, "I tell you to go to the store. I am mistress in this house." Tante Bergeron clumped sullenly away, muttering, "A mistress without a wedding-ring! Oh, l
Nucky slept late and only opened his eyes when Frank Allen clumped into the room about nine o'clock. "Hello, New York! Haven't died, have you? Come on, we're going to break trail down the Canyon, you and I." "Not on your life!" Nucky roused at once and sat up in bed, his face very pale under its thatch of dark red hair. "John Seaton turned you over to me.
He took the hint promptly, and calling the link-man to his side prepared to descend, bidding Fresnoy and his men, who remained clumped at the head of the stairs, make way for us without ado.
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