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But now the basket was only half filled. Who had taken the fruit? He clapped his hands together in surprise; for the fruit of his uncle the canon was something no one in the house dared to touch. Punishment swift and sure would descend upon the culprit. "But, look!" he said half-aloud; "who has dared to touch the fruit of my uncle the canon? Touch it? My faith! they have taken half of it.
There was no one to see them the gardeners had all gone home and no one was moving from the house. Only one small boy, with a rough head and a red face, stood below the stone balustrade, half-hidden among the hollyhocks and the roses, looking wistfully up at the windows of the house. "What am I to do with it?" said Tommy Daintree, half-aloud to himself, and looked sorely perplexed and bewildered.
"It is of no use I cannot stand," groaned Jem half-aloud, as, resolving to make the best of circumstances, he sat down, settled his back against a tree, and munched up his hunch of bread.
They weren't decorative eyes now ... and they filled with indignant self-sympathy. The Liberry Teacher laughed at herself a little here. The idea of eyes that cried about themselves was funny, somehow. "Direct from producer to consumer!" she quoted half-aloud, and wiped each eye conscientiously by itself. "Teacher! I want a liberry called 'Bride of Lemon Hill! demanded a small citizen just here.
"'One day, lying in my hammock, with Don on the piazza at my feet, I put his charms and virtues together in verses, and I send them to you as the most succinct account I can give of my new pet. As I conned them over, repeating them half-aloud, at the frequent mention of his name Don raised his head with an intelligent and appreciative look. Here are the verses. I call them 'Don!
"Did he say when he would come back?" asked Lulu, steadying her voice with quite an effort. "He gwine come back dis evenin' fo' suah, Miss Lu, to see 'bout de work on de plantation," was the reply, as the man turned to his employment again. And with a heavy sigh Lulu turned about and re-entered the house. "Oh, it's so lonesome for me here all by myself!" she said half-aloud.
"If any one on the front form was called upon and did not know the answer Little L hissed right across all the forms what he ought to say: when it came the turn of the back benches little L spoke the answer half-aloud to himself. "There was there an old professor from whom we took Latin. During nearly every lesson he would stop short in the middle of the class; 'L No.
"There's nothing for it but to wait for day," he said half-aloud, and then after, as best he could in the darkness, placing the wounded boy in a comfortable position and again covering him with his outer garments he began to feel his way cautiously onward till he found that every time and in whatever direction he thrust down the butt of his rifle it plashed into rushing water which came down so heavily that it splashed up again into his face, and in spite of the darkness he could feel that he was standing somewhere at the foot of a fall where a heavy volume of water was being dashed down from a considerable height.
"Of course I was furious last week when you tried to hint to me that that dress was unbecoming. Don't you think I know how to dress myself?" "No," murmured less than half-aloud. "What?" "I didn't hint anything," said Marjorie succinctly. "I said, as I remember, that it was better to wear a becoming dress three times straight than to alternate it with two frights."
"Well done, that!" said the corporal, exultingly, and half-aloud to himself, as he slapped his thigh, in a manner to denote his own self-approval. "That's what I call doing the business as it should be done. The attempt," and he smiled at the conceit, "was not a bootless one to us all, though it has been a BOOT LESS one to ME."
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