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The natives looked from Stedman to the boat, and even Gordon stopped in his cheering and stood motionless, watching. They had not very long to wait. There was a puff of white smoke, and a flash, and then a loud report, and across the water came a great black ball skipping lightly through and over the waves, as easily as a flat stone thrown by a boy. It seemed to come very slowly.
Though her manner could not have been more indifferent, there was an undercurrent of feeling in her voice, as if she meant something more than she had put into words. He might take it as he chose, lightly or seriously, her look implied and it was, he admitted, a thrilling look from such eyes as hers. "You are nearer my age," she rejoined, "though you do seem so old sometimes."
I have touched lightly on the matter, only to give to my readers some idea of my conduct in my own country, where I began to tread a path which was to lead me to a state prison as inscrutable as it was unconstitutional.
Laine leaned back in his chair and shaded his eyes with his hand. "Yes." She laughed lightly and got up. "You can find anything, I guess, if you look for it right. And in such unexpected places you find things!" She stopped and listened. "I believe people are going home. Please take me to Hope. I can't imagine what made us stay in here so long!"
Any man that has been through my experiences and did not show himself ten times better than ever he was before, ought to stay in the desert." "That sounds like you," said Louis, gently pulling his beard. "Tell me, partner," said Arthur lightly, "would you recognize me with whiskers?" "Never. There is nothing about you that reminds me of that boy who ran away.
The Spanish annalist calls him a "terrible heretic;" but the French Jesuit, Charlevoix, anxious that the faithful should share the glory of his exploits, affirms that, like his ancestors before him, he was a good Catholic. If so, his faith sat lightly upon him; and, Catholic or heretic, he hated the Spaniards with a mortal hate.
Arctic explorers, for instance, never catch pneumonia in the Frozen North. What the Skin Is. The skin is the most wonderful and one of the most important structures in the body. We are prone to think lightly of it because it lies on the surface, and to speak of it as a mere coating, or covering a sort of body husk; but it is very much more than this.
"He is yours, Amalia. Don't beat him. He's a good horse he saved my life or tried to." "You know well it is my custom to beat animals. It is better you take him, or I beat him severely." "I know it. But you see, I can't take him. Ride him for me, and don't let him forget me. Good-by!" He waved his hand and walked lightly away, and all stood in the doorway watching him.
Such assistance as I have prevailed upon her to accept, I have been obliged, at her own earnest request, to dole out in the smallest portions, lest he, finding how easily money was procured, should squander it even more lightly than he is accustomed to do.
But that, if it is a social obligation, is a pleasure as well." "Yes, I see I see," said Bellegarde, lightly stroking his chin. "You have a very right feeling about it, but I'm glad you have begun with me." He paused, hesitated, and then turned away and walked slowly the length of the room.
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