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"Are you the little nevvy what will help him to hook up that old blind mule of hisn? Here, give us the spo'tin' rifle to tote!" "Please, sir, where is Aunt Alsidia?" asked the child. Yancy balanced the rifle on his great palm and his eyes assumed a speculative cast. "I wonder what's to hinder us from loading this old gun, and firing this old gun, and hearing this old gun go-bang! Eh?"
Then, when within hearing distance, he called out: "We will soon go down a steep hill," and he started again. He had hardly said these words when he was out of sight. I reached the crest of the hill, then down went my reindeer at a terrible pace, railway speed in fact, and as the animal reached the bottom of the hill he made a sudden sharp curve.
Upon hearing that she was staying with the postmaster's wife, she nodded, and said with a smile: "Ah! I know her. Adieu! tell no one of our meeting. I hope you will not have long to wait for the answer to your petition." She rose and went away by a covered path. Marie went back to Anna's, full of fair hope.
As they neared the point where they had left the wrecked machine the young officer turned to Joe, who was nearest to him. "Do you remember," he asked, "seeing that wire of the old telegraph line just about a hundred yards below where we ran the truck into the wall?" "I saw it," Joe admitted, "but I didn't pay any further attention to it." The others had come up within hearing distance.
These two flowers of the female species twitteringly talk of you, though the noise of the wheels and your attention to the horse, joined to your fatherly caution, prevent you from hearing what they say.
And ever since it has been used for just this purpose: to hold a prisoner until he was ransomed and no such man has ever left the place alive unless he paid the price." "Then you cannot help me?" asked Uncle John, who was weary of hearing these pessimistic declarations. "I cannot even help myself; for I may not resign my position here unless the Duke is willing I should go."
Will you let me tell you something about it unless you know its history already?" "I thank you. I don't know. I was wondering about it." Mary stammered a little, blushing very deeply, partly with embarrassment though she was not embarrassed when other strangers spoke to her partly in surprise at hearing the "Roman Prince" speak English like an Englishman. "Please do tell me."
He then took the hand of Colonel Montcornet, who had just renewed their old acquaintance, but he listened to him without hearing him; his mind was elsewhere.
At any rate the breakfast party broke up with Judy having the last word, and scattered their several ways; and Matilda heard no more on David's subject for some time. How the Saturday's work issued she did not know; nothing was said about it in her hearing; and David looked as happy and as calm as he had done before Saturday. She watched him, and she was sure of that.
On hearing these circumstances, from his mouth, I attained some consolation, saying, "If he should wish it, then my desires will be accomplished; God has favoured me greatly, since he has made such a mad man well inclined towards me; so true is it, that if God is favourable, all goes well."
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