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Above all, he had marked some very promising-looking sticks two blackthorns and a holly to cut on his way home, and he was intent on not missing them. So sudden was the jerk that announced his coming on the first one, as nearly to throw the old family horse on his knees, and almost to break Mr. Sponge's nose against the brass edge of the cocked-up splash-board. Ere Mr.
She caught the smile in his voice and pictured the cocked-up corner of his mouth. "I think I ought not to," she murmured, with her head still turned from him. "Conscientious objections?" suggested Max. "Don't laugh!" she whispered. "My dear child, I'm as serious as a judge. What are the objections?" "There is Noel," she said. "You will have to chuck Noel," said Max coolly.
"By the wheelboat, or steamboat, as they ca'd it, to Lunnon: where they charged me sax-pence for taking my baggage on shore a wee boxy nae bigger than yon cocked-up hat. I would fain carry it mysel', but they wadna let me." "Well, where did you go to when you arrived in London?"
Dick took the hare in his arms, and the trembling beast submitted without a struggle. "How did you know it was there?" said Tom. "How did I know she was theer! Why, she had her ears cocked-up listening, plain enough to see. Theer, let her go now. She's got a wife somewheers about." "She's got a wife! Why don't you say He?" cried Dick.
I'll get ahead of him with the story, or I'll find some cocked-up account of it circulating in the lobby. It's easier to blacken the best man than to whiten the worst. Well, I'm going. Good day!" When the door closed, the governor crossed to the window and stood looking down upon the gray drive beneath the leafless trees.
I cried excitedly. "Don't," he whispered, "or you may frighten 'em again." "But do you mean to say you've seen some of the beautiful trogons?" "No," he panted, "not them; I've seen two or three of them other birds with the green and yellow and blue cocked-up tails, same as I saw before and you couldn't find." "Where are they?"
But Sophie went on her errand, and in order to protect her father's small modicum of "sperrits" she slipped on her cloak and walked out so as to be able to watch the girl. Still, I think that the maiden managed to get a sip as she left the bar. The father, in the mean-time with his head between his hands, was ruminating on the "cocked-up way which girls have who can't do a turn for their father."
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