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I am not so easily frightened; much obliged to you all the same. Go home now; 't is horridly late. Good- night, or rather good-morning." "Jasper, mark me, if you see that woman again; if you attempt to save or screen her, I shall know, and you lose in me your last friend, last hope, last plank in a devouring sea!"

Not wishing to drive up to the door of his private house, we alighted at the log-hut which represented the inn. The room was horridly dirty, the floor was sanded, and there was a peculiar smell of bad drink, and an expression of depravity about the establishment. The host was a tall man, attired as usual in a flannel shirt and trousers, with a belt and revolver.

Now, however, his good-natured, honest, stupid soul, full of indignation against me, and concern for your sister, could not resist the temptation of telling me what he knew ought to, though probably he did not think it would, vex me horridly.

We are frightfully curious to know whether the Nutling has heard anything about it and if so what she will do. October 13th. I don't think the Nutling can have heard anything for she seemed just as usual; but Hella thinks and so do I that she would not show anything even if Frl. Scholl had told her; anyhow it was horridly vulgar; one is not likely to pass it on to the person concerned.

"Yes, sir; his loss at cards was tremendously heavy last week; would have broken a less solid man. He had been drinking when he played last, and made horridly flat moves." "Disgraceful!" murmured Mr. Harrison; and then he took another sip of his home-made wine. There were homes representing this same church that were not so stylish, or fashionable, or wealthy. Mrs.

'True kindness means something horridly cross! Now don't, Wilmet. I get ever so much kindness as it is! I know what you are going to say. It is very naughty of people to like each other when neither of them has got a sixpence; but if they can't help it, what then? Must they leave off liking, eh? 'They ought to try to prevent their liking from leading to disobedience and concealment.

"I say, since my aunts are so horridly timid of robbers and such like, you'd better not tell them any thing about the latch-key." Elizabeth stood a minute perplexed, and then replied briefly: "Miss Hilary isn't a bit timid; and I always tells Miss Hilary every thing." Nevertheless, though she was so ignorant as never to have heard of a latch-key, she had the wit to see that all was not right.

Not so the mother, she threw herself on the earth, and receiving the cold and ghastly head into her lap, she sat contemplating those muscular features, on which the death-agony was still horridly impressed, in a silence far more expressive than any language of lamentation could have proved. The voice of the woman was frozen in grief.

I shall walk. 'So shall I, said Alda, 'at least till we are out of the town; but that won't do any good if those children will make themselves so horridly conspicuous. Could not we have the thing to meet us somewhere out of town, Felix? 'And how would you get Cherry there, or Mamma! Or Baby! No, no, if you are too genteel for the van, you may walk.

"But it's a bird!" insisted Hamil, "a big gray, long-legged, five-foot bird with a scarlet head!" "Of course," said the girl serenely; "it's a crane. His name is Alonzo; he's four feet high; and he's horridly savage.

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