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On a May evening, when the shadows were congregating in the cañon, Susan lay on the bunk with her son in the hollow of her arm. The children came in and peeped fearfully at the little hairless head, pulling down the coverings with careful fingers and eying the newcomer dubiously, not sure that they liked him. Bella looked over their shoulders radiating proud content.
Maggie obeyed with her usual breezy readiness, turning to nod reassurance to Etta, who, truth to tell, had pulled up the rime-covered windows, shutting out the whole scene. "He must come inside," said Maggie. "We are nice and warm with all the hot-water cans." Paul looked rather dubiously toward the sleigh. "You can carry him, I suppose?" said the girl cheerfully.
"And oh, if I ever get the chance, I promise I'll do something for you you want. Just think of what you're giving me a whole month of being just as happy as I like! We can go back to the bungalows now. I don't mind being congratulated one bit after this do you?" "N-no," said John a little dubiously. Then he laughed. "There's one thing you've forgotten.
It is a whim, you know, but, in the circumstances, I do hope that that " "Ah! it is for une dame une affair of de heart. Bon! You shall go in an' vin," said the gallant Rollin. "I don't know," said Victor dubiously; "it seems to me rather hard to give up my chance of the first grizzly I've ever seen.
You would never cease to reproach yourself if things went wrong." "Shouldn't I?" the young man said dubiously. "Of course you wouldn't," Honoria asserted. "Having it in your power to help, and then shirking the responsibility! I won't believe that of you. You are better than that. For think how young she is, and pretty and dependent.
The little man, bending forward dubiously, as if fearful of accident, was riding bareback on a gaunt, long-legged mule, which, judging from all outward appearances, must have been some discarded asset of the quartermaster's department.
"I love him and he loves me so so well that I've been madly happy in spite of of " "Is that all?" asked Anderson, dubiously. "Is not that enough?" "But Dorn's lovin' you so well doesn't say he'll not go to war." And it was then that forgotten bitterness returned to poison Lenore's cup of joy. "Ah!"... she whispered. "Good Lord!
I've had a lovely life, and I'm more obliged to Him for it than I can say." "Ahem," coughed the vicar dubiously. "One scarcely speaks of being obliged to the Almighty, my dear Austin. We owe Him our everlasting gratitude for His mercies to us, and when we think how utterly unworthy the best of us are of the very least attention on His part " "I don't see that at all," interrupted Austin.
"Ah," said the professor slowly and dubiously, as Frank listened with his heart beating fast, while he held his quivering nether lip pressed tightly by his teeth; "you think that would be possible, Sheikh?" "Possible, your Excellency?" said the man, in an earnest whisper; "why not? Am I a man to boast and say `I will do this, and then show that I have a heart of water, and do it not?"
A girl has a right to decide about that, hasn't she?" "You've got something up your sleeve, all right," he said dubiously; but she remained severely silent until he gave in and promised. "Well, then," she said, "this is what our honeymoon is going to be.
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