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But Thor only smelled of him, saw that he was all right, and began to dig up a dog-tooth violet. He had not finished the violet when suddenly he stopped. For a half-minute he stood like a statue. Muskwa jumped and shook himself. Then he listened. A sound came to both of them. In one slow, graceful movement the grizzly reared himself to his full height.
He called to Nepeese as he saw Baree entering it, and together they climbed the slope. Baree had almost reached the edge of the little prison meadow when suddenly he stopped himself so quickly that he fell back on his haunches and his heart jumped up into his throat. Full in his path stood Wakayoo, the huge black bear! For perhaps a half-minute Baree hesitated between the two perils.
So they stood a full half-minute, Thane seeing nothing, hearing his heart beat preposterously in the silence. "Why don't you praise my sign-posts?" asked Daphne nervously. "See my beautiful distance, one straight line!" "I have changed my plans a little," said Thane. Daphne closed the book. "I shall see you again in Boise. This is good-by for three days. Take care of yourself."
There are moments when a man feels that all he needs in order to be a delivery wagon is a horse and a driver. "He had better chirrup to the dog while he's there, don't you think?" suggested Sam. He felt that a resolute man with legs as long as Bream's might well deposit a cloak on a berth and be back under the half-minute. "Oh, yes! Bream!" "Hello?"
Skepsey'; and she stopped a flood of narrative, that was knocking in his mind to feel its head and to leap an uninterrupted half-minute more would have shaped the story for the proper flow.
I knew quite well what was going to happen, because I could date back in my own life and inspect the record. The captain looked on, during a silent half-minute, then took the wheel himself, and crowded the boat in, till she went scraping along within a hand-breadth of the ships.
For a full half-minute neither moved the thousandth part of an inch. Then Baree stood up and wagged his tail. That was enough. Dropping to his forefeet. Beaver Tooth waddled leisurely to the edge of the dam and dived over. He was neither cautious nor in very great haste now. He made a great commotion in the water and swam boldly back and forth under Baree.
Yesterday only about two hundred people were still left in front of the house when the second call was blown; in another half-minute they would have been in the house, but then a thing happened which delayed them the only solitary thing in this world which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them.
Phillotson the surprise was not great; like the lady in the story he had been played that trick too many times to be unprepared. But Sue's class was at the further end of the room, and her back was towards the entrance; the inspector therefore came and stood behind her and watched her teaching some half-minute before she became aware of his presence.
Here, the first object that met his eyes was his beloved father sitting on a bottom stair, with his hat in his hand, shouting out 'Weller! in his very loudest tone, at half-minute intervals. 'Wot are you a-roarin' at? said Sam impetuously, when the old gentleman had discharged himself of another shout; 'making yourself so precious hot that you looks like a aggrawated glass-blower.
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