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"Come in, and welcome, in God's name!" said Valentine, and thereupon he opened the gate of his courtyard, and the heavy car lumbered rattling in. Dame Sarah had overheard the conversation in the next room, and, through the closed window, said to pretty Michal: "I know not how it is, but I am so delighted that my teeth chatter, and an ague shakes me."
"Well, I never Uncle Bob!" she cried excitedly and imperiously, and as the colonel lumbered toward her on his sorrel mount, she called with sparkling eyes, "don't you know him?" The puzzled face of the colonel broke into a hearty smile. "Well, bless my soul, it's Jason. You've come up to see your folks?" And then he explained what Marjorie meant to explain.
The Hemmingway lot and the Dornwood lot oughtn't to be lumbered except in winter, with snow for the sleds. But you could haul straight downhill from the Warner lot, even on wheels, using the back lane in the Eagle Rocks woods. There was a period of close attention to his papers, when he heard nothing at all of what went on in the rooms next his study.
I'll sure see you in the mornin' before you quit." He stood uncertainly for a moment with his arm upon Nan's shoulders. He seemed to want to say more, and was at a loss how to say it. Finally he stuck his pipe back into his mouth with a savage thrust and lumbered heavily from the room. Nan understood.
He explained that the ship was not very clean or inviting-looking, which was the truth, but as the lower deck was lumbered up with the horses of Commandant Sillye and was swarming with natives, it was only to be expected. Then to bed, but not to sleep, for the boys to save themselves trouble, had not fixed the mosquito net properly.
He saw, a moment later, something spit from the end of the gun, and then he heard that deafening crash that had come with his own hurt, when the Willow's bullet had burned through his flesh. He turned his eyes swiftly to Wakayoo. The big bear had stumbled; he was on his knees. And then he struggled to his feet and lumbered on. The roar of the rifle came again, and a second time Wakayoo went down.
"I was dying for want of air. I was suffocating." Her intensity caught him. He lumbered to his feet. "What are you talking about?" She rose, too, almost with a synchronous movement. An interested spectator, I continued sitting, my hands clasped round my knees. "The little prison you put me into. I felt this in my throat" and forgetful of the admirable Mrs.
Presently the night-watchman lumbered out of his sentry-box by the gates, his dim lantern sounding pools of mysterious darkness, which were untouched by the solitary gas-lamp in the street outside, and which the faint moonlight only seemed to intensify. Oswyn drew in a long breath of the cool, caressing air, momentarily straightening his bent figure.
Our holds were so full of provisions, that our cables, and a great deal of our bread and some water casks were between decks, and having 183 men in the Duke, and 151 in the Duchess, we were obliged to send our sheet, cable, and other new store cordage on shore at Cork, to make room for our men and provisions, yet were so much crowded and lumbered that we could not have engaged an enemy, without throwing much provisions and stores overboard.
He saw her looking at him, and he flashed one enigmatical glance into her eyes, and rose to go out. "How you getting on, Williams?" Ridgeley asked. Williams resented his question. "Oh, I'm all right," he said sullenly. The meal was all over in an incredibly short time. One by one, two by two, they rose heavily and lumbered out with one last wistful look at Mrs. Field.
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