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"Well, I shouldn't think you could do so much, Mis' Field, with your hands." Mrs. Field's hands lay in her lap, yellow and heavily corrugated, the finger-joints in great knots, which looked as if they had been tied in the bone. Mrs. Babcock eyed them pitilessly. "How are they now?" she inquired. "Seems to me they look worse than they used to." Mrs.
Do I exist? Does the world exist? if it does, every action is bound up with necessity. ‘Necessity!’ I exclaimed, and cracked my finger-joints. ‘Ah, it is a bad thing,’ said the old woman. ‘What is a bad thing?’ said I. ‘Why to be poor, dear.’ ‘You talk like a fool,’ said I, ‘riches and poverty are only different forms of necessity.’
'Let her enjoy herself while she can! But was it possible, when Flora used to smile at him on the Braid ponds, she could have looked so fulsome to a sick- hearted bystander? The thought of one quarry, in his frozen wits, suggested another; and he plodded off toward Craigleith. A wind had sprung up out of the north-west; it was cruel keen, it dried him like a fire, and racked his finger-joints.
He knew her. It was too late. He fell where he stood. They took him up and brought him here. He never spoke afterward. Within the week he died. You can see the color of his hair faded, somewhat by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. The veins of this leaf in the decorations over your head, were his finger-joints, a hundred and fifty years ago."
Oh, I got 'em in good shape doncher bodder about me." "Ahem," said Mr. O'Meagher thoughtfully, as he cracked his finger-joints and puffed on his cigar. "You've done well, Tuff, excellent. Ah, Tuff, there's going to be a meeting in the Cooper Union to-morrow night. The people that are getting it up er, well, I'm afraid they're not very friendly to me, Tuff. The doors open at seven.
When he did not venture to look higher, Wilfrid let his eyes feed on the turn of the wrist, the faint blue lines and sinuous muscles, the pencilling about the finger-joints, the delicate white and pink nails. Miss Hood was habitually silent when in the company of others than the children. When she replied to a question it was without timidity, but in few, well-chosen words.
And she kissed Will on the mouth in full view of all of us, he blushing furiously, and Kagig cracking all his finger-joints. "Go with her, Will!" urged Monty, as she disappeared down the steps. "Go and save yourself. You're young. I've notions of my own that I've inherited, and the world calls me a back number. You go with Miss Vanderman!" I seconded that motion. "Go with her, Will!
Again and again was I obliged to desist, until my cramped finger-joints recovered their power; but at length my perseverance was rewarded, for, little by little, I succeeded in removing the bolt so far as to allow the door to open sufficiently to permit me to pass. With some squeezing I succeeded in forcing my way into a small passage, upon which my prison-door opened.
"And the dot, with the word 'Watter' was one and a half finger-joints northeast of the bay. Let's see, the bay itself was about four joints long, wasn't it? Or a little over? Anyhow, that would put the spring about here." "Allowing for our not being able to remember exactly the shape of the bay," Jeremy put in, "that's just where the spring should be. Bob, this is the island!
And now that cross-mark between the two straight lines two finger-joints northwest of the anchorage-cove, it was. That's just about here." He marked the spot on the floor with his stick. "Now we've got it all down. And if that cross-mark shows where the treasure is " Jeremy paused and looked at Bob, his eyes shining. "Where would that be up on the hill somewhere?" asked Bob breathlessly.
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