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"It's me," said Overland, still concealed. "Thought I quit you, eh? Are them fellas out of sight yet?" "No. They're still in sight. They are too far to see anything, though." "And you can see them all right, son? That don't figure out correct." Winthrop laughed. "That's so. Where's the burro?" "He's hid right in plain sight up a little arroyo."
"I'm a little girl," replied Dot, proudly. The Koala saw that Dot was proud, but as it didn't see any reason why she should be, it was not a bit afraid of her. "I never heard of one or saw one before," it said, simply. "Do you burrow, or live in a tree?" "I live at home," said Dot; but, wishing to be quite correct, she added, "that is, when I am there."
If you're so set on somebody gettin' married why don't you get married yourself? You've been what the minister calls 'unattackted' all your life." The minister had said "unattached," but Captain Obed did not offer to correct the quotation. He joked no more and, during breakfast, was silent and absent-minded. After breakfast he went out for a walk.
There was no one in the whole of Svartsjö Parish who was so well versed in the law and the statutes as was the senator from Storvik, and those who had the good sense to seek his advice in matters of purchase and sale, in making appraisals, or setting up an auction, or drawing up a will, could rest assured that everything would be done in a correct and legal manner and that afterward there was no fear of their becoming involved in lawsuits or other entanglements.
As Commander-in-Chief of the militia when called into actual service, he had, he said, visited the places of general rendezvous, to obtain more correct information and to direct a plan for ulterior movements. Had there been reason for supposing that the laws were secure from obstruction, he should have caught with avidity at the opportunity of restoring the militia to their families and homes.
The negro, it must be remembered, is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has, deep in his heart, a passion for all that is splendid, rich, and fanciful; a passion which, rudely indulged by an untrained taste, draws on them the ridicule of the colder and more correct white race. St.
She was very sorry to leave her children, for she knew if Charles behaved naughty when she was with him, he would be a sad boy indeed when he was left to himself, and had none to correct him and tell him of his faults. When the carriage that was to take Mrs.
Never saw such men with the shovel and pick. And fight? They've cleaned up on a half of the men in camp. If we can get Thorpe " "We'll see him to-night," interrupted Philip. "Or to be correct, this morning. It's one o'clock. How long will it take to round up our best men?" "Half an hour," said MacDougall, promptly, jumping to his feet.
Bob sometimes told serious and correct stories about sea-captains, pilots, boatswains, mates, able seamen, and other curious fauna of the marine world; but these were directly addressed to his father and Mrs. Loveday, Anne being included at the clinching-point by a glance only.
I did not, however; instead I asked her if she never noticed what a rigid look people wore in their best bonnets, and holding a card-case? She said, "Yes," and shook out her handkerchief, as if to correct her own rigidity. After an early tea she compelled me to sing, and we delayed dressing till Mrs. Somers bloomed in, with purple satin and feather head-dress.
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