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"Say, Corpril," inquired Harry, "what's to be done with them rebels over there at the end o' the bridge?" "Them that we shot?" said Shorty carelessly, feeling around for his tobacco to refill his pipe. "Nothin'. I guess we've done enough for 'em already." "Don't we do nothin' more?" repeated Harry.
John Somerville entered the room, and for the first time in eight years his glance fell upon the child whom, for so long a time, he had defrauded of a mother's care and tenderness. Ida returned to the window. "How beautiful she is!" thought Somerville, with surprise. "She inherits all her mother's rare beauty." On the table beside Ida was a drawing. "Whose is this?" he inquired.
"Pardon me, Madame, but I inquired for Monsieur des Rameures." "He is at the farm, but will soon return. Be kind enough to wait." She pointed to a chair, and seated herself, pushing away with her foot the branches that strewed the floor. "But, Madame, in the absence of Monsieur des Rameures may I have the honor of speaking with his niece?"
A moment later he stood back again, and Elvine's eyes fell upon the mail lying upon the table. "Some for me?" she inquired, moving toward it. Jeff nodded. Then his smile died out. His gaze had fallen upon his own open letter. It was lying upon the table near the pile set aside for his wife, just where he had flung it down at the moment of her entrance. "Quite a few," he said.
Any icy shiver ran over Virgie from head to foot, and a low moan escaped her lips. No one cared for <i>her</i> ruined life; it was nothing that <i>she</i> was parted forever from the man she adored. "I will not part them," she said, in a hollow tone; "<i>but</i> " "Well?" inquired Mrs. Farnum, with a painful thrill, as she paused on the word, with a threatening intonation.
In two hours I ought to have a very good set of leveling notes. Then I can bring them back and compare them with Black's sights." "Can you run a level well?" inquired Mr. Thurston. "Of course I can, sir. It's simple enough work, and I've done a good bit of it in the east." "Go along, then, and see if you can throw any light on this," sighed the disturbed chief.
It was only on his insisting upon their receiving it, that they consented to take it. A kind-hearted, generous set of fellows were in that boat, and Benjamin was not inferior to one of them in that respect. Bidding them good morning, he walked up Market Street, where he met a boy eating some bread. "Where did you get your bread, boy?" he inquired.
As for instance, during the illness of Monseigneur, the King, as I have said, asked Madame de Maintenon if she had seen Mademoiselle Choin, and upon receiving negative reply, was displeased. Instead of driving her away from the chateau he inquired particularly after her!
It was no other than her son Robin, for whom the gentleman had first inquired, and they were both engaged in such deep and earnest conversation, that neither noticed the addition to the party, until the old woman had thrown her arms around her son's neck, so as almost to stifle him with her caresses, seeming to lose all sense of the stranger's presence in the fulness of joy at the youth's return.
No doubt I shall meet with opposition, and perhaps shall fail in the attempt, but I have determined to fail trying." "What particular service can I render?" inquired Benjamin.
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