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Well, good-bye, miss, and I wish you well." Tora was about to put in his hand the usual payment for his services, when he shut his broad fist expressively, and then half raised it, as he said, "I never took pay for a mistress's things being brought to this schoolhouse yet, and I don't mean to do it now. Folks for the most part seem to like you, but I have a particular feeling.
"Yes, we are, of course," said Anne expressively. "People must live. How much did your watch cost?" Very unwillingly Matilda named the sum, which Norton had told her. The two sisters looked at each other and rose to depart. "But you are not going?" cried Matilda. "You haven't said anything to me yet. And I have not seen you for ever so long."
When Phonny got pretty near to the horse, he began to walk up slowly towards him, putting out his hand as if to take hold of the bridle and saying, "Whoa Dobbin, whoa." The horse raised his head a little from the grass, shook it very expressively at Phonny, walked on a few steps, and then began to feed upon the grass as before.
"No a," said Bertie, looking expressively at Bluebell, as a hint that she might offer to point out the road. "Oh, surely you must; keep straight on King Street, and then you come to " "Wolfe Street?" suggested Du Meresq. "Gracious, no! that would be quite out of your way! Go to I'll tell you what, Bluebell shall show you where you turn off it isn't ten minutes from here."
"Well I'll " he paused expressively, then inquired: "What's your game?" "Well, you see, boss, this executive council that runs the State-house has refused our demands." "What are your demands?" "Double pay." "Double pay! Now how do you figure it out that you ought to have double pay?" "Rush work.
"Your diagnosis, I believe, is amazingly accurate," he said after a moment, turning round with the map in his hands. "Though, of course, I can have no idea how you should guess " John Silence shrugged his shoulders expressively. "Merely my impression," he said.
And if my sister Betty is here—" He paused expressively. "Doesn’t she live at home?" Jack asked. "She’s just come home; she’s been in England for three years. Oh, but I tell you she’s a corker!" "I should think—" The sentence was never completed because a voice without the not-altogether-closed door cried: "No, don’t think, please; let me come in instead."
Or was it perhaps the third, less pretty but more vivid and animated, who sat behind the tea-tray, and mimicked so expressively a soldier shouldering his rifle, and another falling dead, in her effort to ask us "when the dreadful war would be over"? Perhaps ... unless, indeed, it were the handsome octoroon, slightly older than the others, but even more richly dressed, so free and noble in her movements, and treated by the others with such friendly deference.
It was nineteen days, counted and checked off, since she had seen the object of her homage; and as, had he been in London, she should, with his habits, have been sure to see him often, she was now about to learn what other spot his presence might just then happen to sanctify. For she thought of them, the other spots, as ecstatically conscious of it, expressively happy in it.
The choleric old party in the street had to appear for one passing instant more, and fire off one more passing sentence. Which he did with the same results. Good heavens! what an actor Dickens was. When that reading ended with the success which it deserved never did that most expressive of all human features, the eye, thank a boy more expressively. Over all things cultivate sympathy.
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