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She obeyed him, gulping down the last of the precious contents of her flask. "It's down there covered with leaves!" she gasped out at length. "Will anything disturb it before I can take Tuesday and the rope?" "Do you mean you've cleaned the whole deer?" he asked curiously. She nodded, still shuddering. "Well, you're a brick!" he said heartily.
Fifteen thousand in the city of New York. I came from there." "Not like you, child." "Yes, like me," with a gulping noise in her throat. "I'm no better than the rest." She sat down and began digging in the snow, holding the sullen look desperately on her face. The kind word had reached the tortured soul beneath, and it struggled madly to be free. "Can I help you?" No answer.
He gulped down the spittle in his throat as if he were gulping down the phrase and, fumbling at the peak of his tweed cap, turned to Stephen, saying: Excuse me, sir, what do you mean by that expression you uttered just now? Feeling himself jostled by the students near him, he said to them: I am curious to know now what he meant by that expression.
"They will kill me! Please don't send me back!" "Stop your crying," thundered the Count, stopping his ears with his hands to keep out the disagreeable sounds, "or I will call the soldiers at once." This terrible threat had the desired effect, and Jacob, gulping down his grief, remained quiet save for an occasional sob that would not be repressed. "Listen, Dimitri," said the Countess.
And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattress that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! I grin at thee, thou grinning whale! Look ye, sun, moon, and stars! I call ye assassins of as good a fellow as ever spouted up his ghost. For all that, I would yet ring glasses with ye, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! oh, oh! thou grinning whale, but there'll be plenty of gulping soon!
"She's a lazy hussy," was the opinion expressed of her one morning by my aunt, who was rinsing; "a gulping, snorting, lazy hussy, that's what she is." There was some excuse for my aunt's indignation. It was then eleven o'clock and Susan was still sleeping off an attack of what she called "new-ralgy." "She has seen a good deal of trouble," said my mother, who was wiping.
Storch came in shortly after. He had his inevitable loaf of crisp French bread and a slice of cheese and in his hip pocket he had smuggled a pint bottle of thin red wine. Fred laid the table with the simple utensils that such a meal required and the two sat down. Storch poured out two glasses of wine. "I have had great fun to-day!" Storch said, gulping his claret with a flourish.
I saw it myself so far as the gentleman was concerned he could not keep his eyes off her, though I was not five minutes in their company, and I was full of my poor cousin Tom. I am sure I hope they may be happy," gulping down the hope. "Tom would have wished it, quite apart from her having done her duty by him, at the cost of some pain to herself, no doubt; while Dr.
Judging by the avid way the other slaves were gulping it down, each one of them had been exposed to it before. Hanson cautiously made the pretense of swallowing his before he allowed it to slip through his fingers to mingle with the sand.
"Yes, he was fond of drink, he was fond of it, he did drink!" cried the commissariat clerk, gulping down his twelfth glass of vodka. "My late husband certainly had that weakness, and everyone knows it," Katerina Ivanovna attacked him at once, "but he was a kind and honourable man, who loved and respected his family.
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