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The six were together again. Private Smith was conscious, but couldn't handle himself. He was fatally wounded. That didn't daunt his courage. "Prop me sitting, boys," he begged. "Put me up where I'll do some good. You can shoot from behind me and I'll stop a few bullets, anyway." "We'll not use you like a dead horse." But he insisted on sitting with a pistol in his lap.
"Yes, I see," replied Ridge, "and I should be pleased to know into whose hands I have fallen. Are you Cubano or a Spaniard?" "And I will ask if you are American or Spaniard?" "But my question came first," insisted Ridge. "While I am in a position to have mine answered," replied the other, again smiling. "But I will not press it at this moment.
It is a note of our general intellectual development that cheapness in literature is almost as much insisted on by the rich as by the poor.
"You may not feel so sure of this after you have investigated," Allen insisted. "I shall never alter my opinion." Gorham was annoyed by the boy's persistence.
Knight whipped Tom, and his Aunt Annie put him to bed for the rest of the day. In the settled opinion of Mrs. Knight, Tom was punished for attempting to murder her baby. But Mr. Knight insisted that the punishment was for lying.
The Captain, impatient to be gone, would not suffer them to enter the house, but insisted that we should immediately get into the coach. We obeyed; but were no sooner seated, than Madame Duval said, "Come, Monsieur Du Bois, these girls can make very good room for you; sit closer, children." Mrs.
Sometimes these imaginative chroniclers, not content with fabricating a genealogical chart for a parvenu Lord Chancellor, insisted that he should permit them to write their lives in such a fashion, that their earlier experiences should seem to be in harmony with their later fortunes. In like manner a manufacturer of genealogies traced Lord Eldon to Sir Michael Scott of Balwearie.
We toiled through all the museums, working harder than we had ever worked upon the farm, till Frank cried out for mercy. I was inexorable. "Our money is getting low. We must be very saving of carfare," I insisted. "We must see all we can. We'll never be here again." It was with a feeling of joy, of distinct relief that we set our faces toward the sunset. Every mile brought us nearer home.
"In fact, you will do very much as I wish, or your brother " "You coward!" spoke the girl, scornfully again. "If your brother suffers, your pride will be in the dust," insisted the annoyer, "and, remember, I, alone, can save your brother from disgrace." "I am not even going to ask you to do it," retorted the young woman. "And now our interview is over.
This very home was intended for Alice, and though he had not spoken to his mother for years, in her last hours he came with a prepared will and insisted on her signing it.
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