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It's just possible that I may be making a mistake, thinking that you and I would be happy." Marjorie gave a little tense jerk of outraged pride at this rather tactless speech. It sounded too much as if Francis might possibly tire of her which it wasn't his place to do. "And so," Francis went on doggedly, "my proposition is that you go up to Canada with me.
Tammas set off for Sam'l's as soon as he heard she was there, but he just missed her, I left him there an hour syne. He was waiting for her, determined to tell her all." I set off for the Tenements at once, declining Hendry's company. The wind had fallen, so that the bell no longer rang, but the rain was falling doggedly. The streets were still deserted.
It is a dangerous rub in the alley of his conscience. He is the bloodhound of the law, and hunts counter, very swiftly and with great judgment. He hath a quick scent to smell out his game, and a good deep mouth to pursue it, yet never opens till he bites, and bites not till he kills, or at least draws blood, and then he pincheth most doggedly.
"Why, of course," said David, trying to be patient; "but I'm most done," he encouraged her. "God bless everybody Dr. Lavendar taught me the new blessings," he interrupted himself, his eyes snapping open, "because my old blessings were all gone to heaven. God bless everybody; Dr. Lavendar, an' Mary, an' Goliath " Helena laughed. "He said I could," David defended himself doggedly "an' Danny, an' Dr.
"Maybe," he said, eying her with the resentment which is so closely akin to love; "but I think you understand my madness. Talking gets us nowhere. A dozen times to-day your eyes answered mine. Either you feel it too or you are a coquette!" This brought a genuine anger to Colina's aid. Her weakness fled. "How dare you!" she cried with blazing eyes. "Coquette!" he repeated doggedly.
A good half hour later the skipper's voice bellowed from the speakers all over the Niccola. His heavy-jowled features stared doggedly out of screens wherever men were on duty or at ease. "Hear this!" he said forbiddingly. "We have checked our course and speed.
'Now, Master, said the Chicken, doggedly, when he, at length, caught Mr Toots's eye, 'I want to know whether this here gammon is to finish it, or whether you're a going in to win? 'Chicken, returned Mr Toots, 'explain yourself. 'Why then, here's all about it, Master, said the Chicken. 'I ain't a cove to chuck a word away. Here's wot it is. Are any on 'em to be doubled up?
Who wants to go to bed?" asked Tom, smothering a yawn. "I'm going to help you with it." "No, you're not," replied Steve doggedly. "I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it all myself if it takes me until daylight. Now shut up." At half-past ten the next morning Mr.
"I ain't going to tell you," Vincent said doggedly "Mother said I wasn't to tell no one where I lived, else the Yankee thieves would be a-coming down and stealing the rest of our chickens." The officers laughed. "Well, go along, boy; and I should advise you not to say anything about Yankee thieves another time, for likely enough you will get a broken head for your pains."
"Pshaw!" said the tall boy, Thaddeus, in his rapid Polish. "What think you would cry like that spirits?" He laughed. "It might be," said the second lad doggedly. "There are spirits, of course; and when souls are set free in the violence of war they say they ever return to haunt the scene of their passing." "Well, nobody has passed here," said Thaddous, "alive or dead. Let's go on!"
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