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Dol uttered a mad "Whoop-ee!" and heedlessly dashed off a few steps in pursuit. Reynard whisked his brush as much as to say, "You can't get the better of me, stranger!" and defiantly trotted away. Recovering his senses, the boy managed to recover the trail too, and was keeping to it carefully when a second temptation beset him.
"It was Dol Vin who insisted that we Wellingtons were spoiling her business, interfering with her customers and she said this 'now this creature actually tries to steal my parcels from a messenger boy! Can you fancy that accusation on this poor head?" "But you didn't have the box?" asked Janet. "Certainly not. Dol knew that, but old Sandy didn't.
Together with these came the Archbishop, and those of Dol who held of him their lands. His betrothed was brought to his home by her mother. Great dread had the mother because of Frêne, for she knew of the love that the lord bore the maiden, and feared lest her daughter should be a stranger in her own hall.
Contrary to their expectations, Neal and Dol were lulled to sleep by it like babies, with a feeling as if some guardian spirit were gliding among the tree-tops.
And Gilchrist if Ronny had only kent Gilchrist and his men shifted a little among the bushes, and old Dol Beag was there among them trembling a little and his mouth praying. John McCook came close to Bryde McBride, and pointed to the very place where the gangers were lying waiting. "Would there be something moving there among the bushes?" said he. "A sheep maybe," said Bryde.
"Perhaps you will come across him again some day," suggested Dol, with unusual timidity. "P'raps so, Kid. And, faith, when I think of that, it seems as if there were two creatures inside o' me fighting tooth and claw. One is all for hammering him to a jelly.
"Good gracious!" said Dol, conscious on the instant that he was as hollow as a drum. "There are enough surprises in these forests to raise the hair on a fellow's head half a dozen times a day!" A matter of forty yards more, and a burst of light swam before his eyes. He had reached the end of the blazed trail. "Hello! Come to supper, boys! Come to supper right away!"
Scarcely had they emerged from the gloom of a dense growth of cedars, when Dol exclaimed. "Good gracious! That looks as if people had been building a jolly high railroad out here." On the right rose a bare, steep ridge of sand and gravel, nearly ninety feet in height, and closely resembling a railway embankment. "Well, boy," laughed Dr.
The malicious influence of Dol Vin was ever a disturbing factor to be reckoned with, and as yet Jane had no way of knowing that the confidential relation between the two freshmen and the beauty parlor proprietor had been broken off. Later that day Jane confided in Judith. "What would I do if I had no Judy to tell my troubles to," she said with a show of sincerity.
At the same time the distortion which had drawn up on one side the muscles of the mouth had deepened into a startling broadness the half sneer of derision that usually lurked around the lower part of his face. Subtle, Surly, Mammon, Dol, Hot Ananias, Dapper, Dragger, all With whom I traded. The Alchemist.
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