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The soldier in question, in the uniform of an infantry regular, sat facing them, beside a stout elderly gentleman. Opposite the first soldier was a second, in a similar uniform; and sharing the seat with the latter, and facing the old gentleman, was a decidedly pretty young girl. It was the first soldier's left hand, however, which attracted the boys' particular attention.
He grunted and replied: "I guess this is a free country or at least it ought to be." "Yes," Gid rejoined, still facing him, "but it won't be altogether free for such as you until the penitentiaries are abolished." "Oh, I understand you, Mr. Batts. You are trying to work up a chance to kill me." "Good guess; and you are trying to help me along."
Someone who plays the piano well starts up a lively tune and the children march around a row of chairs which have been arranged facing alternately in opposite directions. There should be one less chair than the number of players. When the music stops, each child tries to find a seat. Someone will be left out, as there is one chair short.
They've been trained to know me as a vamp, and a vamp I remain." Facing Kennedy, she sobered. "Merle Shirley and I were engaged," she went on. "That you know. Then poor Stella made a fool of him. She didn't mean any harm, any real harm, but I don't think she knew how deep he feels or just what a fiery temper he has. Finally he found out that she was only playing with him.
For a long time after she had gone into the tent, old Pierre Radisson sat on the edge of the sledge, facing the fire, with Kazan at his feet. Suddenly the silence was broken again by Gray Wolf's lonely howl deep in the forest. Kazan lifted his head and whined. "She's calling for you, boy," said Pierre understandingly.
For an instant the boys were so dumfounded by the suddenness of the attack that they all jumped in different directions, but the colonel, with a well-directed blow from the heavy stick he carried, knocked the animal off of Dick, but not before his coat had been torn and Dick himself scratched by its claws. Snarling and spitting the cat now crouched, facing the colonel, and seemed about to spring.
If I was rude to her ten years ago, I apologize and withdraw; but as for her books, I shall leave them where they are buried in a cliff facing due north, with nothing between them and the Pole but leagues upon leagues of a wind-swept ocean. The name of Arthur Young is a familiar one to all readers of that history which begins with the forebodings of the French Revolution.
"John!" she cried wildly, and the next moment she was clinging to John Grange's neck, while he stood there with one arm about her, holding her tightly to him, and proudly facing her father and Barnett, who stood scowling and trying hard to speak.
Vegetarians, I suppose, or perhaps they live on smaller monkeys and other animals, just as our ancestors did." "Really, Lenox," said Zaidie, turning round and facing him, "I must say that you have a most unpleasant way of alluding to one's ancestors. They couldn't help what they were."
"Perhaps we shall know some time; but here is home, and will he speak of it to Mistress White, do you think?" "Not ever, I suppose," said Schmidt; and we went in. The sight we saw troubled me. In the little back parlor, at a round mahogany table with scrolled edges and claw toes, sat facing the light Mistress White.
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