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But Thomas Betson never fell out with his hosts, whose only complaint of him must have been that he sat long over his love letters and came down late to dinner. There was business enough for him to do at Calais.
Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. Mabry tried to rise, but fell back dead. The whole tragedy occurred within two minutes, and neither of the three spoke after he was shot. General Mabry had about thirty buckshot in his body. A bystander was painfully wounded in the thigh with a buckshot, and another was wounded in the arm.
As it was, when the three girls reached him, he was unconscious and it was plain by the attitude in which he lay that his leg was broken. "Poor Hunchie!" murmured Ida Bellethorne, "I hope it wasn't because he was surprised to see me that he fell." "His surprise did not make that timber slippery with ice," said Betty, looking up. "Oh! Here's a lady!"
Grant me but this prayer, and I leave thee, if in sorrow, yet not with terror." "Generous and noble Chian," returned Cleonice as her tears fell upon the hand he extended to her, "why, why do I so ill repay thee? Thy love is indeed that which ennobles the heart that yields it, and her who shall one day recompense thee for the loss of me.
You and the tiger are my best drawing cards today," smiled Mr. Sparling. "Glad I have proved of some use to you, sir." "Use? Use?" "Yes, sir." "Don't be a fool!" exploded the showman, almost brutally. Phil's countenance fell. "Don't you understand, yet, that you already have been worth several thousand dollars to me?" "Well, don't get a swelled head about it, for "
Sach received from the lady a violent blow upon the face which rolled him on the floor! As he fell, the Algerian sprang up and drew a knife. Sach rolled away from him and also reached for the knife which he carried in a hip-pocket. Before he could draw it, Miguel, the quadroon proprietor, threw himself upon him and tried to pitch him into the street.
For my home I had a little hut by the edge of the forest, and my life was one of much content until I fell in love with a beautiful Munchkin girl who lived not far away." "What was the Munchkin girl's name?" asked Woot. "Nimmie Amee.
Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would show it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them. Put out of countenance by the manner in which he thus "set foot" upon the New World, he uttered a loud cry.
The enemy fell back from his front without a battle, but took a new position quite as strong and farther to the rear. Thomas reported that he could not go any farther, because it was impossible with his poor teams, nearly starved, to keep up supplies until the railroads were repaired. He soon fell back. Schofield also had to return for the same reason.
Loyal and loving to his mistress Flushie always was; yet to his lot some canine errors fell; he eyed a visitor's umbrella with suspicion; he resented perhaps the presence of a rival; he did not behave nicely to a poet who had not written verses in his honour; for which he was duly rebuked by his mistress the punishment was not capital and was propitiated with bags of cakes by the intruder.
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