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"I had a hard time finding you, too. Who's your " she was about to say "pretty housekeeper," but turned to find Jennie dazedly gathering up certain articles in the adjoining room and looking dreadfully distraught. Lester cleared his throat hopelessly. His sister swept the place with an observing eye. It took in the home atmosphere, which was both pleasing and suggestive.
"I bet he home in bed by viss time!" Verman roared with delight, appearing to be wholly unconscious that the lids of his right eye were swollen shut and that his attire, not too finical before the struggle, now entitled him to unquestioned rank as a sansculotte. Herman was a similar ruin, and gave as little heed to his condition. Penrod looked dazedly from Herman to Verman and back again.
"My sweet little girl," he whispered. "I cannot believe it yet." But the die was cast, and when Rita went to the theatre to dress for the afternoon performance she was pledged to sever her connection with the stage on the termination of her contract. She had luncheon with Monte Irvin, and had listened almost dazedly to his plans for the future.
"He's in there," Cumshaw said, following the other's glance, "but there isn't anything to worry about. He's as dead as a door-nail." "Dead," Bradby repeated dazedly. Cumshaw nodded. "This many a day," he said in semi-explanation. "But come in and see what there is to be seen." As if perfectly sure of his companion's acquiescence he turned and walked into the hut.
The girls fell apart from one another through the mere shock, and when Molly and Midge dazedly opened their eyes, they saw Stella crumpled in a little heap on the floor. "Is she dead?" screamed Molly. "Oh, Marjorie, is she dead?" "I don't know," said Marjorie, whose face was almost as white as Stella's, as she leaned over the unconscious little girl.
His heart beat less feebly; he drew in a deep sighing breath, and stared up dazedly at Blake, with slowly returning consciousness. "I'll smoke all I please and when I please," he murmured in a supercilious drawl. Blake dashed his face with the cupful of water still left in the canteen. The wounded man flushed with quick anger and attempted to rise.
I thought if you'd made up your mind to refuse it or, in short, anything about it, you'd want to be prepared for her. Those questions of hers you can't evade them. They go to the bottom of your soul and then some." "Oh," said Raven dazedly, recalling himself to a complexity he had all but forgotten. "So they do. I dare say she will ask me.
If you will come with me, Boys, you shall have what you need.... Oh! Yes, you can bring both the dog and the pig." A tranquil smile, sweet and pathetic, erased the pain-wrinkles from Flukey's face. Supper at last for his dear ones! Ann held out her hand to him, and dazedly the sick lad took it in his hot fingers.
When he awoke he could scarcely believe his own senses; and he looked about him dazedly. The sun was shining down as brightly as before. The snow was as white. He had for some reason been spared, after all, and hope arose in his breast. He began to look around him. Not two rods away, his face clearly in sight, his eyes closed, dead asleep, lay the figure of the man who had waylaid him.
Buck returned to the little book dazedly. He flipped another leaf another. Then he read in a stunned sort of voice: "Sam Bloom, Paris Emporium, Duluth. See Sadie." He closed the book. "Say, see here, Emma, do you mean to " "Sam is the manager," interrupted Mrs. McChesney pleasantly, "and he thinks he does the buying, but the brains of that business is a little girl named Sadie Harris.
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