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I kissed the poor little-girl cry-spots; and with that a perfect flood of tears rose to my eyes but they didn't fall, for there, right in front of me, stood a more woe-stricken human being than I could possibly be, if I judged by appearances. "Molly, Molly," gulped Billy, "I am so ill I'm going to die here on the floor," and he sank into my arms. "Oh, Billy, what is the matter?"
He gulped and grew hot. "By Jupiter! I'll have to tell them what I think of them up there, and please the pigs!" Then he remembered the pleadings of his wife. She had implored him to keep a tight hold of himself; and in fairness to her he must exercise discretion. She and he were one. With extraordinary tenderness he mentally framed the words that by custom he employed when speaking of her.
Sandy Sawtelle savagely demanded a cup of coffee, gulped it heroically, rose in a virtuous hurry, and at the door wondered loudly if he was leaving a bunch of rich millionaires that had nothing to do but loaf in their club all the afternoon and lie their heads off, or just a passell of lazy no-good cowhands that laid down on the job the minute the boss stepped off the place.
And when nothing would be happening I opened my two eyes, and it was not there, and then I looked round with just my head, and aw!" and a shudder went through the shepherd, and he gulped at his drink, "it was just at my own very shoulder grinning at me.
The tea was gulped, the hardtack swallowed, and the travelers were under way again almost before their sweaty bodies had begun to chill. On they hurried, mile after mile, sweeping past bends, eagerly, hopefully scanning every empty tangent that opened up ahead of them.
Ingolby looked round and saw a jug of water. Pouring out a glassful, he thrust it into the fat, wrinkled fingers. "Drink and pull yourself together," he said sternly. The shaken figure straightened itself, and the water was gulped down. "I thank you," he said in a husky voice. "You see I treated you fairly, and that you've been a fool?" Ingolby asked with no lessened determination.
He gulped it down, and, with what was perhaps a judicious sacrifice, jumped the remainder of his testimonials. When the stranger heard how he had been tracked through the streets, he put his head to the side to think. It was a remarkable compliment to his abstraction that Andrew paused involuntarily in his story and waited. He felt that his future was in the balance.
If you went now, in a month's time he'd never think of you again." The girl gulped. There was something so pitiful in the movements of her hands that Bianca turned away. She stood for several seconds staring at the door, then, turning round again, said: "Well?" But the girl's whole face had changed. All tear-stained, indeed, she had already masked it with a sort of immovable stolidity.
Spies have been using Red Cross passes. Result is that all the lines are drawn as tight as possible." Sara Lee stared at him with wide eyes. "But I can't go back," she said. "I well, I just can't. They're raising the money for me, and all sorts of people are giving things. A a friend of mine is baking cakes and sending on the money. She has three children, and " She gulped.
Singleton held to the wheel with one hand while he drank, bending down to shelter his lips from the wind. Wamibo had to be poked and yelled at before he saw the mug held before his eyes. Knowles said sagaciously: "It's better'n a tot o' rum." Mr. Baker grunted: "Thank ye." Mr. Creighton drank and nodded. Donkin gulped greedily, glaring over the rim.
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