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This was not to be borne, and Maggie jumped up from her stool, and going up between her father's knees, said, in a half-crying, half-indignant voice, "Father, Tom wouldn't be naughty to you ever; I know he wouldn't." Mr. Tulliver's heart was touched. "What! They mustn't say any harm o' Tom, eh?" he said, looking at Maggie with a twinkling eye. Then, in a lower voice, turning to Mr.
And the blind missionary said, "Bless the dear girl and boy who have cut peaches for two whole months to help send the gospel to heathen children!" Then Rosella, being honest, could not bear to have the missionary think it had been two months instead of one, and she suddenly burst out, half-crying, and said, "O, I wasn't so good as that!
Her long, black hair hanging about her shoulders, and her tawny, Indian countenance, with her ghost-like figure dressed in a white habiliment, struck him with a sort of terror that wellnigh made him run. "Who is that, at this time of night?" inquired the woman, in a low voice. "It's only me. I'm lost, and can't find my way to our vessel," said Tommy, in a half-crying tone.
"Oh, Pobs, dear," she said half-laughing, half-crying. "You're such a darling you always understand everything. I feel heaps better now, thank you." Anglice: foreigner. Diana threw hack the bedclothes and thrust an extremely pretty but reluctant foot over the edge of the bed.
Indeed," she went on, half-crying, "I have heard you do so for myself, when you did not know that I was within hearing." "Yes, my dear, most assuredly. It is no fiction, but a real difference that lies between excusing ourselves and excusing other people. No doubt the same excuse is just for ourselves that is just for other people.
With a majestic sweep of her hand she snatched out his false teeth and trampled them in the street. Thus, he half-crying and she breathing fire, they reached the house. Linares was talking with Maria Clara, Sinang, and Victoria, and as he had heard nothing of the quarrel, became rather uneasy at sight of his cousins.
Harriet fled to her room, and to the porch beyond it, and flinging herself into a basket chair, covered her face with her two hands, and for half an hour rocked to and fro audibly gasping, half-laughing, half-crying, almost beside herself with amazement and excitement. To be Mrs. Richard Carter to be Mrs.
I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. "But perhaps you would be very glad," he resumed, "if suddenly one of those good fairies you read of could change the domino-box into a beautiful geranium in a beautiful blue-and-white flower-pot, and you could have the pleasure of putting it on your mamma's window-sill." "Indeed I would!" said I, half-crying.
"I don't like fighting it's brutal. Besides, I have another reason, which I don't care to mention." By this time they had reached the scene of the difficulty, Little Cameron was half-crying, and Thorne stood over him with upraised arm. "Do as I tell you, you little blackguard!" he was just saying, when a voice he well knew was heard, calm and resolute: "Thorne, are you bullying that boy again?"
By this time the stars had come out and were looking quietly down upon us. The waters of the mill-dam chanted mournfully, and in my disordered imagination, fantastic images danced before the entrance of the old mine. Half-crying with fear, I again laid my hand on Emma's head.
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