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"Who were they?" asked Virginia, unconscious of a half-sigh as she withdrew abstracted eyes from the wide panorama which had filled the vision of so many other men and women and little children before the white man came to claim the New World. "They who builded here and lived and died here. What has become of them? Where did they go?" "All questions asked a thousand times and never answered.

'Ah! very true, so they must; very proper indeed! rejoined Miss Knag with that sort of half-sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society; 'and that's what I very often tell my brother, when our servants go away ill, one after another, and he thinks the back-kitchen's rather too damp for 'em to sleep in.

In accordance with Bivens's instructions the cashier opened the bronze doors and squeezed through, admitting Stuart and two detectives. At the sight of the cashier a thrill of horror swept the crowd half-groan, half-sigh, half-cry, inarticulate, inhuman, beastly in its grovelling fear. "Great God!" "They're going to suspend!" "It's all over!"

He turned from these to the bookshelves, which seemed to be filled with relegations from the rest of the house children's story-books in tarnished bright covers and dilapidated school-books. He took down one of these latter and examined it absently, with a half-sigh.

I don't like to be sitting here with you." Without another word Marcia signalled for the waiter. "What's the check?" she demanded briskly "My part the rabbit and the ginger ale." Horace watched blankly as the waiter figured it. "See here," he began, "I intended to pay for yours too. You're my guest." With a half-sigh Marcia rose from the table and walked from the room.

"He would be as great in opposition perhaps greater; and as to emoluments " "The emoluments are good," interposed Randal, with a half-sigh. "Good enough, I suppose, to pay him back about a tenth of what his place costs our magnificent friend. No, I will say one thing for English statesmen, no man amongst them ever yet was the richer for place." "And Mr.

"Norah will go, I suppose," said David Linton, with a half-sigh the sigh of a man who has looked forward to peace and security, and finds it again slipping from his grasp. "Oh, yes, I'm sure she will. They have a certain number of volunteers, not nearly enough." "I'm going," said Tommy, and David Linton nodded at her kindly. "What about you and me, Jim?" Bob asked.

At West Haven Green Winthrop turned out of the track of the racing monsters into a quiet street leading to the railroad station, and with a half-sigh, half-laugh, leaned back comfortably. "Those lights coming up suddenly make it hard to see," he said. "Hard to breathe," snorted Sam; "since that first car missed us, I haven't drawn an honest breath.

She noticed his perturbed look. "What's the matter, my dear boy?" she asked. "What's the matter, Jonas?" "I wish you'd stop calling me your dear boy," said Jonas angrily. "I I forget sometimes," said Mrs. Brent, with a half-sigh. "Then you ought not to forget. Do you want to spoil everything?" "We are alone now, Jonas, and I cannot forget that I am your mother."

"My poor Castruccio," replied De Montaigne, with a half-sigh; "he is one of those victims whom I believe to be more common than we dream of men whose aspirations are above their powers. I agree with a great German writer, that in the first walks of Art no man has a right to enter, unless he is convinced that he has strength and speed for the goal.

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