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People said she would not live an hour after the lake was gone. But she never cried. A Proclamation was made to all the kingdom, that whosoever should discover the cause of the lake's decrease, would be rewarded after a princely fashion. Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck applied themselves to their physics and metaphysics; but in vain. Not even they could suggest a cause.
And so remarkable were its effects upon her, especially in restoring her for the time to the ordinary human gravity, that Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck agreed in recommending the king to bury her alive for three years; in the hope that, as the water did her so much good, the earth would do her yet more. But the king had some vulgar prejudices against the experiment, and would not give his consent.
If one could dream, one could picture the corsairs' red flag and the picturesque Arab figure standing high in the stern beside the tiller, and fancy would portray the freight of spices and cloves that they should bring from the plantations of Pemba and Zanzibar. But there are no dusky beauties now aboard these ships; and their freight is rations and other hum-drum prosaic things for our troops.
It required two more shots to finish him, and thus died Polina, or Penina, the leader of the Snakes and scourge of the white man. The shot from Howard Maupin's repeating rifle closed the Snake, or Shoshone war, and peace reigned until their great uprising under Chief Egan in 1877. For a year or more, or until the spring of 1868, I followed the hum-drum life of a printer.
The queen laughed; but Hum-Drum and Kopy-Keck heard with humility and retired in silence. Their consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for the thousandth time, each his favourite theories. For the condition of the princess afforded delightful scope for the discussion of every question arising from the division of thought in fact of all the Metaphysics of the Chinese Empire.
After all, it may amount to nothing. As for Jess, she has as much, and more, nerve than I have." "When it comes to eating ice cream," put in Jimsy irrelevantly. Peggy, glancing about her, could not but reflect at the moment what a strange contrast the scene about them offered to the peaceful landscape and commonplace adventures of hum-drum Long Island.
She that looks so spruce, and makes such a noise and bustle, is Flattery. That other, which sits hum-drum, as if she were half asleep, is called Forgetfulness. She that leans on her elbow, and sometimes yawningly stretches out her arms, is Laziness. This, that wears a plighted garland of flowers, and smells so perfumed, is Pleasure.
"Ah indeed? ... Separated, have they!" "You see, the eldest boy was mine " "Oh yours!" "Yes, poor little fellow born in lawful wedlock, thank God. And perhaps she feels, over and above other things, that I ought to have been in her place. I can't say. However, as for me, I am soon off from here. I've got Father to look after now, and we can't live in such a hum-drum place as this.
"Do you know any Herbert in Redleaf?" I ventured to ask, with as careless a tone as I knew. "No, Anna; let me think; I thought I knew, but no, it is not here. Why?" "It doesn't matter. I thought there might be a person with that name. Don't you get very tired of this hum-drum life?" "But it isn't hum-drum in the least, except in bee-time, and on General-Training days."
You see it is hard, after such a life of change and variety, to settle down into a country parsonage." "What are you saying there?" said Rosamond, tripping in out of breath. "That I don't know how you are to put up with a pink-eyed parson, and a hum-drum life," said Julius, holding out a caressing hand. "Now that's hard," pleaded she; "only because I took a frolic with Baby Charles!
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