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"I didn't really mean it, my dear," said Mary penitently, though she laughed still. "I dare say not, but I've bin a-thinkin' 'tis a pity your pet bain't a size or two smaller he be sixteen hands if he be a inch else maybe ye'd like to have en in here a-layin' on the hearthrug." Then husband and wife laughed long and loud, and their little difference was forgotten as their eyes met.
"Would you like to have your daughter there, if you had one?" "Perhaps not, under ordinary circumstances. But this is war." "It is not our war." "Humanity," said Mrs. Gregory, remembering the phrase she had written for a speech "humanity has no nationality. It is of all men, for all men." "That's men. Not women!" He got up and stood on the hearthrug.
He began to munch scone with a contemplative air. Anne gave him some tea, and he set it on the hearthrug between his feet. The silence became lengthy. She was conscious of something in the atmosphere that made her vaguely uneasy. Was it a cat he resembled, crouching there in front of her? No, there was nothing domestic about him though she had a feeling that he could purr when he was pleased.
So he cocked the pistol you can cock it, but it doesn't go off and he said, 'Come on, Dick! and he rushed at the study door and burst into the room, crying, 'Surrender! you are discovered! Surrender, or I fire! Throw up your hands! And, as he finished saying it, he saw before him, standing on the study hearthrug, a Real Robber. There was no mistake about it.
The marble clock on the mantel-piece softly chimed the half-hour, the dog rose uneasily from the hearthrug and looked at the party at the breakfast table. But still they sat on in ineffectual conclave. 'Oh, all right, said Joe suddenly, a propos of nothing. 'I'll get a move on.
So Tom fairly lost his way in them; not that he cared much for that, though he was in pitchy darkness, for he was as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground; but at last, coming down as he thought the right chimney, he came down the wrong one, and found himself standing on the hearthrug in a room the like of which he had never seen before. Tom had never seen the like.
He seized the tongs from the fender, took a live coal from between the bars, dropped down sitting upon his heels halfway between the pair, but outside the hearthrug, and completed the Eastern picture in Wimpole Street by resting upon his left hand and making believe to be holding the live coal to the bowl of the Hakim's pipe. "Bravo! Splendid!" cried the professor.
"At this point," she observed, "the House adjourned for tea. Nan, it's your week for domesticity. Go and make tea." Nan scrambled up from the hearthrug obediently and disappeared into the kitchen regions, while Penelope, curling herself up on a cushion in front of the fire, sat musing. For nearly six years now she and Nan had shared the flat they were living in.
The black coat and worsted waistcoat which he could take off together were on the seat, and the light trousers hung over the side, the legs on the hearthrug, with the red socks still sticking in them: a man without a body. But the boy had one vivid recollection of how his mother received the news of his father's death.
So James, between mouthfuls, gave a brief résumé of the night's adventure, while Sir William Thorogood, Professor of Chemistry and Adviser to the Admiralty on Submarine Explosives, stood and shivered on the hearthrug. "And it just shows," concluded his nephew, "what a three-hours' swim in the North Sea does for a chap's morals." He eyed his Uncle Bill solemnly.
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