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It had been a hard struggle, and some had gone down, and some were dead; but some, thank God, were doing well. The old dame wished us good day; but as she turned to go an impulse seized her. She crossed to where Babette, ashamed, yet half defiant, sat a wet, woeful little image on the hearthrug, stooped and lifted the little creature in her thin, worn arms.
They both came this morning to the Albany to see what they could do for me. I don't see what they can do, save help Rogers put studs in my shirts. They expressed such affectionate concern that at last I cried out: "My dear girls, if you don't smile, I'll sit upon the hearthrug and howl like a dog."
I must ask Uncle Max to have that chimney made wider " At this point Marianne's eyes closed and she fell asleep. She was awakened by a loud thump! that seemed to shake the very bed in which she was lying; and as she sprang up in a state of great excitement, she saw Santa Klaus picking himself up from the hearthrug on which he had apparently fallen with great violence.
Seven hundred and fifty for Dick, and a thousand for the broker seventeen hundred and fifty dollars more to be raised at once; and the two thousand just received from Herresford all gone. Netty entered the room at the moment. "Ah, here you are, father!" she cried, going over to the hearthrug and dropping down before the fire. "Why didn't you come in to breakfast? Didn't you hear the gong?
He read the letter slowly, pondering every sentence and every word, and when he had finished it his hand dropped upon his knee; and when the letter fell upon the hearthrug he did not stoop to pick it up, but sat looking into the fire, convinced that everything was over and done.
"It does not seem to me that it is worth our time to haggle about the usage of Greek words or to count texts: I ground my position on the general meaning of the Gospels and the sense of things," and Carmichael stood on the hearthrug in a very superior attitude.
Looking down at him there, her eyes were softer and her lips took a gentler curve. "You mustn't be down there," she said. "I don't like to see you there and can't talk to you till you get up. Let's sit down and talk if you will." He rose obediently and stood with heaving chest, while she drew a chair to the fire and seated herself. Then he took to the hearthrug, and possessed himself of her hand.
Briscoe dropped the lid of the piano and strode to the door, followed by Bayne, the ladies standing irresolute on the hearthrug and gazing apprehensively after them. The sudden changes incident to the mountain atmosphere were evidenced in the opaque density of the fog that had ensued on the crystalline clearness of the sunset.
A meeting between him and Mr. Gilman on her hearthrug might involve the most horrible complications. The young man and the young woman shook hands. But it was the handshaking of bruisers when they enter the ring, and before the blood starts to flow. "Won't you please sit down?" said Audrey.
"It was rather a bad cut, you know, but I didn't notice it until I found my hand covered with blood. Then I turned suddenly faint, and had to lie down on the hearthrug it was in Mr. Hornby's study, which I was tidying up at the time.
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