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This was my first reflection; and almost simultaneous with it arose another half-interrogative conjecture: was it Su-wa-nee? No. The foot was too small for that of the forest maiden. I had a remembrance of the dimensions of hers. The tracks before my eyes were not over eight inches in length: and could only have been made by a foot slender, and of elegant shape.
"What do you think is father's last idea?" said Christie, with, I fear, a slight lack of reverence in her tone, as her sister reentered the room. "He thinks George Kearney is paying you too much attention." "No!" said Jessie, replying to her sister's half-interrogative, half-amused glance with a frank, unconscious smile.
She had been dethroned the day before, while he worked at a less congenial task. On his visitor's entrance he put her back with her face to the wall. Tom made an exceedingly stiff bow. "Mr. Perkins, I believe?" "Mr. Ryfe?" replied Simon, in the same half-interrogative tone, with a very stiff bow too. "I am here on the part of Lord Bearwarden," said Tom. "And I have been referred to you by Mr.
You two poor young things taking care of each other, for of course there were no women here in those days." "Of course there WERE women here" interrupted Yerba, quickly, with a half-meaning, half-interrogative glance at Paul that made him instinctively uneasy. "You later comers" to Milly "always seem to think that there was nothing here before you!"
"What's come o' the laddie?" she said to the dog, who answered with a low whine, half-regretful, half-interrogative. It may be he was only asking, like Esau, if there was no residuum of blessing for him also; but perhaps he too was puzzled what to conclude about the boy.
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