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For my part, I'd call on him every time my family needed his services, which would probably be pretty often, for Rose is kind of delicate like. He'd be sure to have one patron, for it would do me good to spite the Little's."
He felt uneasy, and drove down to the works. There he made some inquiries among the women, and elicited that Jael Dence had turned faint at sight of the place, and they had shown her, at her request, where she had been picked up, and had told her about the discovery of Little's remains, and she had persuaded a little girl to go to the town hall with her.
This resolution formed, she lived on thorns, awaiting Henry Little's next visit. He came next day, but she was out. She asked the servant if he had said anything. The servant said, "He seemed a good deal put out at first, miss, but afterward he said, 'No, it was all for the best." This was another blow.
Mountain said it was caused by the embankment settling. "Everything settles down a little houses and embankments and all. There's no danger, Mr. Ransome, believe me." "Well, sir," said Ransome, "I am not a man of science, but I have got eyes, and I see the water is very high, and driving against your weak part. Ah!" Then he remembered Little's advice. "Would you mind opening the sluice-pipes?"
He acknowledged Barry with a grunt to Little's introduction, and motioned his visitors to two chairs silently produced by the Javanese boy. He sat in ponderous silence for a space, his piggy eyes dwelling on Barry with steel-point steadiness, his great hands resting idly on the desk before him. Then he spoke, in thick, heavy English. "Good man. You will command my Barang, Captain Barry?"
"Hallo, Bobby!" he observed cheerfully. "That you? I didn't notice you before." Bobby Little's hot eyes turned slowly on Wagstaffe, and he exclaimed feverishly: "Hallo, Major! Cheeroh! Did we stick to Longueval all right? I've been dreaming about it a bit, and " "We did," replied Wagstaffe "thanks to 'A' Company." Bobby Little's head fell back on the pillow, and he remarked contentedly:
"She's as modest and pretty in her ways as ever a girl could be," replied the deacon, who had learned during the past year to love his son's wife; "you won't have any call to be ashamed of her. I can tell you that much beforehand." When Mrs. Little's eyes first fell upon her daughter-in-law, she gave an involuntary start. In the two years during which Mrs.
A very little darker. This is growing quite beautiful. Almost like an agate. Which of those six is the prettiest, after all? He thinks a seventh, which he remembers lying on Little's mantel-piece, outdoes the whole. That of Little's was not carved, nor silver-mounted even, and yet connoisseurs pronounced it worth a hundred and fifty dollars. Not one of these is worth ten.
"Have you heard the new oath Cæsar Gunn swears with since he got religion?" and "Damn bress the Lord" soon became a very by-word in the town. Early in the autumn, Deacon Little's wife came one morning to the house and asked to see Hetty alone. Hetty met her with great coolness and remained standing, with evident purpose to regard the interview as simply one of business.
Ten years ago, Pelby, then a trim bachelor, as nice and particular as any of the tribe, said, in allusion to Tommy Little 'If that were my child, I would half kill him but what I'd make a better boy of him!" "He did?" "Yes, those were his very words. We were spending an evening at Mr. and Mrs. Little's, and when Tommy was about two years old or so; and Pelby was terribly annoyed by him.
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