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"But I do hope you feel better to-day," said Polly, observing with some anxiety the short, half-breathless manner in which the invalid spoke. "Oh yes! I feel better that is to say, I think I do. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.
He was therefore a good deal surprised when he heard the sweet voice of Mona Shepherd behind him; and turning, saw her running to him bare-headed, with her hair flying in the wind. "Willie! Willie!" she was crying, half-breathless with haste and the buffeting of the breeze. "Well, Mona, who would have thought of seeing you out so early?" "Mayn't a girl get up early, as well as a boy?
I was cooling my heels in the waiting-room of the chambers of the Barons of the Exchequer, Chancery Lane, awaiting my turn of admission, when one of our clerks came in, half-breathless with haste. "You are wanted, sir, immediately; Mr. Flint is out, and Mr. Linden is at the office raving like a mad-man."
They only required to know the truth. This then was our task. We ceased to journey over arid fields of suffering, and turned our steps resolutely to the editorial rooms of the Dallas and Galveston News, at Dallas. Both editors were present; both sat half-breathless while the flood of information rolled over them in no uncertain terms.
There was less of wind. I went on, half-breathless with the intensity of the effort I made to breathe. The stars looked cold. I was near the church-yard. First the church, then the place of graves, after that, the long, sloping garden, and the parsonage higher up. I passed by the last house. I drew near to the church. How fearful! I stopped.
There was about his preaching, moreover, a nameless charm which held thirty thousand hearers half-breathless on Boston Common and made tears pour down the sooty faces of the colliers at Kingswood. The passion of George Muller's soul was to know fully the secrets of prevailing with God and with man.
Spargo, half-breathless, dropped into his desk-chair. "You didn't come here to tell me that," he said. Rathbury laughed. "No," he said, throwing the newspaper aside, "I didn't. I came to tell you my latest. You're at full liberty to stick it into your paper tonight: it may just as well be known." "Well?" said Spargo. Rathbury took his cigar out of his lips and yawned.
"Oh, you've found it," she said, with nervous eagerness. "I was so afraid you'd have all your trouble for nothing." She extended her hand, with a half-breathless smile, for the fan, but he caught her outstretched little palm in his own, and held it. "Ah! but you are not going to leave us, are you?"
A second later, red-faced, half-breathless, but with the light of battle in his eyes, Doctor Geddes appeared, mounted on a ladder on his side of the hedge. "Who shot off that rooster?" "Monsieur le docteur, the hens of you began this affray," explained Schmetz, politely. "They are fowls abandoned in their morals, horrible in their habits, and shameless in their behavior.
Help, Captain Down I I " and, trembling and half-breathless, she clung to the speaker as he caught her hands in his. "The Resident's boat?" she panted. "No, no Rajah Hamet's. We have been to see him off." "Oh, you don't understand! The Resident's boat Mr Maine " "Ah! What of him?" "Went up the river with my niece." "Yes, yes what of them?" "Not come back!" "Oh! Well, well, don't be alarmed.
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