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'We will pay the fine, said they, and the judge nodded. So the poor man rode the mule home, and brought back to his family enough money to keep them in comfort to the end of their days. Adapted from the Portuguese. The One-Handed Girl An old couple once lived in a hut under a grove of palm trees, and they had one son and one daughter.
"Put your hand, palm up, under hers. I am going to withdraw my hand and retire, as I do not wish to excite her; she will probably open her eyes in a few moments. Take her home as quietly as you can." "You will call to-morrow?" whispered Levice. He quietly assented. "Now be deft." The transfer was quickly made, and nodding cheerfully, Dr. Kemp left the room. Ruth came forward.
She had reached her room now, and as she sat upon the edge of her bed of ferns and grasses, with one hand resting upon her rising and falling bosom, she felt the hard outlines of the man's locket. She drew it out, holding it in the palm of her hand for a moment with tear-blurred eyes bent upon it. Then she raised it to her lips, and crushing it there buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing.
He had a deep-rooted objection against permitting the palm of his hand to be seen; a reluctance which common fame attributed to the fact of his having received on that part the impress of a hot iron, in the shape of the letter T, not forgetting to add, that T was the hieroglyphic for Thief.
Your eyes have touched me, and I am falling asleep! His voice grew weaker as he said it. Her answer sounded faint, and far above him: 'Give me... your... hand. Touch me. Come away with me... to... my ... garden ... in the mountains.... We may wake together ... You are waking now...! He made an effort to find her little palm. But the wind swept coldly between his opened fingers.
The man was sound asleep, seated on the ground with his back propped against the wall of the capstan-house, his legs stretched out straight in front of him, his arms hanging limply at his sides with the backs of his hands resting on the ground and turned palm upward, his head sunk on his breast, and his pipe, fallen from his mouth, lying in his lap.
The passer-by should pause to see the Guides' cemetery, perhaps the only regimental cemetery in the world. To this last resting-place under the palm trees, close to the fields where they have played, and the barracks in which they lived, have been borne the bodies of successive generations of these wardens of the marches, killed in action across the frontier line. It is a green and pleasant spot.
"I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child," Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. "I s'posed of course Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else." "You remember we said that Rebecca, or even Jenny might come, in case Hannah could n't," interposed Jane.
"All step back save this young man," ordered the duke, extending his open palm toward the courtiers. We all fell away, but the duke said: "Farther back, farther back, I say! Don't crowd in like a pack of yokels at a street fight!" Charles was acting under great excitement. I was not sure that it was not anger since his mien looked much like it.
"Lend me your knife," she said, kneeling beside the smoky oil lamp; and without a word he drew his claspknife from his pocket, opened the blade, and held the handle toward her. She took it from him, and then knelt motionless for an instant looking at the diamond, which shone like a star in her hollowed palm.
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