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Wish I could! But I don't feel as if I could even stand up. I suppose I shall have to go down to dinner. I don't dare not." "Haven't you had any breakfast?" "No. Folks that can't get up don't need to eat." She laughed sadly. "It's well I'm not hungry." "But you ought " "Tap! tap!" The matron opened the door while Polly was on the way. "Mr.
My honey, you're all tuckered out, an' here it's gettin' on to midnight, an' you to go to Englewood by the early car! Go to bed, dear, an' I'll sit up for Arthur. Only don't cry, Hermy " "Oh, I'm not crying, dear," said Hermione, lifting her head. "See, I haven't shed a tear! But I must find Arthur. I couldn't rest or sleep; I should lie listening for his step.
"You haven't told us that, yet." "Why, drop it over the side as soon as you get out to the fishing- ground," replied the Captain laconically; "and now, I hope, you understand all about it?"
Her cheeks were wet and her lips were trembling with convulsive sobs. Oh, how I hated myself then! "Good God," I cried, throwing my arms about her, "see what I've done!" But she put her palms against my shoulders and held me off, saying brokenly: "You haven't done anything." "I have," I cried again. "I've hurt you hurt the one I love most in all the world!"
Tisbett observing both methods. "I guess I'll hold 'em in two hands," he said at last, "'cause most likely he won't let me take the whip at the same time. Ain't I glad I haven't cut the right one any more!" He held it up and squinted at it as well as he could for the darkness. There wasn't even a scar to be seen, thanks to Mother Pepper's good care.
When Pelle turned away, Lasse and Madam Olsen had disappeared in the crowd. They must have gone on a little, and he went down to the very end of the street. Then he turned despondingly and went up, burrowing this way and that in the stream of people, with eyes everywhere. "Haven't you seen Father Lasse?" he asked pitifully, when he met any one he knew.
She leaned forward, dimpling like fourteen instead of forty. "And you've noticed haven't you, T. A.? that I've got an expressive countenance." Buck leaned forward, too. His smile was almost gone. "I've noticed a lot of things, Emma McChesney. And if you persist in deviling me for one more minute, I'm going to mention a few."
The sergeant returned to Waller, who was standing in the middle of the room with his hands in his pockets, whistling an old country ditty softly, while the two soldiers made a pretence of searching the room, and then looked for orders from their officer. "You haven't looked up the chimney, my lads," cried Waller, laughing.
"I haven't heard The Christmas Carol since I was twelve years old," said Richard Flanders. He had his note paper on his knee. "What I want, Mr. Bingle, is a good Christmas story from you. We shall play it up, of course, and well, it ought to be good reading. Your own story, sir, from the beginning. All about the Hooper millions and the children that just grew."
"This," said Alice, when they came out, "between my door and the fireplace, is a cupboard. Here be cups and saucers, and so forth. In that other corner beyond the fireplace you see my flower-stand. Do you love flowers, Ellen?" "I love them dearly, Miss Alice." "I have some pretty ones out yet, and shall have one or two in the winter; but I can't keep a great many here; I haven't room for them.
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