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Then it ceased, and all of a sudden the man was rubbing his eyes on the hillside, and watching the falling dusk. "I have heard the Rime," he said to himself, and he walked home in a daze. The whaups were crying, but none came near him, though he looked hard for the bird that had spoken with him.
"That's the way it reads. The perches is in the henhouse, I s'pose though why the description included them and not the hens' nests I dunno." "Eighty acres of land!" repeated Hiram in a daze. "All free and clear. Not a dollar against it only encumbrances is the chickens, the cow, the horse and the pigs," declared Mrs. Atterson. "If it wasn't for them it might not be so bad.
"You may expect to find your house red up any time when I can get a ride out." I was in a daze for some time trying to study out developments. Buck Gowdy and Mrs.
"Yesterday morning or day before just after you left. I reckon he was waitin' for you to go. I'm glad you went first." The man looked up at the rifle resting on the pegs above the fireplace. "Laban, don't!" she cried. "I looked at it when he was walkin' away, and I know what you're thinkin'." "What is he goin' to do?" the man asked from his daze. "Nothing.
Captain Barnabas traced his daughter and her husband as far as the steamer which sailed for England. Farther he would not trace them, although he might easily have cabled and caused his son-in-law's arrest. For a month he went about in a sort of daze, speaking to almost no one and sitting for hours alone in his room.
Then he was gone, and Jacqueline was laughing over his shoulder back to Pierre. Through his daze and through the rising clamor of the music, a voice said beside him: "You look sort of sick, dude. Who's your friend?" "Don't you know him?" asked Pierre. "No more than I do you; but I've ridden the range for ten years around here, and I know that he's new to these parts.
When I reached the back porch I found Polly sitting up on the floor, with Matthew's arms around her, and the entire wedding-party standing beside the back steps, looking on and ejaculating with thankfulness. Old Parson Henderson stood near, beaming down benedictions for the rescue, and I decided that they were all in a daze in which anything could be put over on them.
Grab up a bucket of sand and carry it around here. We can put it out yet if we're busy!" Shea had evidently only been aroused from a sound sleep by the approaching cries of the boy and was still in a daze. He had discovered the fire, and hearing Frank running toward him, supposed that this must be the one who had done the evil deed.
Temple's hand raised, saw the fingers formed to make the familiar scout salute the full salute. The full salute for him! He saw this and yet he did not see it; he saw it in a kind of daze. Then he went down and stepped upon the earth again and made his way back to his seat. Those who saw him thought that he was walking, but he was not walking, he was floating on wings.
It was something blind and elemental, outside of anything that he had dreamed of in his life. She went on down the hall and left him there, and he had to lean against a table for support. And all that day he was in a daze with bursts of rapture sweeping over him. She was interested in him! She had smiled upon him! She had touched his hand!
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