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Let me but see her restored to her father, and all I have to do in Europe perhaps in the world is over and ended." "A wiser resolution were to drink a cup of sack, and forget her," said the landlord. "But five-and-twenty and fifty look on those matters with different eyes, especially when one cast of peepers is set in the skull of a young gallant, and the other in that of an old publican.
If Bothwell were on board the ship as a stowaway the aspect of affairs was more serious even than we had thought. "You're sure it was Captain Bothwell, Jimmie?" "Say, would I know me own mother? Would I know Jim Jeffries or Battling Nelson if I got an eyeful of them walking down Market Street? Would I be sure of the Chronicle Building if I set my peepers on it? Betcherlife." "How was he dressed?"
Sometimes on clear, soft nights, when the moon came out all splendid and the "peepers" sang so plaintively in the Hollow, the boy's heart would fill and grow enormous in his chest with the intolerable sadness he felt. Then Maw's mood lifted pierced by a ray of heavenly sunlight for Nat came home! Luke saw him first heard him, rather; for Nat came up the lane oh, miraculous! driving a motor car.
You watched by the marshy pool, and caught the 'peeper' in the act, took him 'in flagrante, delicto, as the lawyers say, and thus ended the theoretical discussion about the 'peepers. You placed another fixed fact upon the page of natural history.
Oh! Time! Time! the wrecks that lie scattered in thy pathway! That little brooklet, and the peepers, the fountain, the maples, and the meadow, are all gone. The brave old oak was riven by the lightning.
"And you are not afraid of her telling?" "Why, get along! She knows nothing about my little game!" replied la Pouraille. "I make her drunk, though she is of the sort that would never blab even with her head under the knife. But such a lot of gold !" "Yes, that turns the milk of the purest conscience," replied Jacques Collin. "So I could do the job with no peepers to spy me.
"Well, it isn't difficult to see what she's been about!" said Stolpe teasingly. "One has only to look at the lass's peepers such a pair of glowing coals!" Otto Stolpe, the slater, was spokesman, and opened the banquet by offering brandy. "A drop of spirits," he said to each: "we must make sure there's a vent to the gutter, or the whole thing will soon get stopped up."
The growling tigerish 'Ghm-m-m' constrained me to take it for a lullaby. 'Kiomi, why the deuce did your people attack me? She repeated the sound resembling that which sometimes issues from the vent of a mine; but I insisted upon her answering. 'I 'll put you down and be off, she threatened. 'Brute of a girl! I hate you! 'Hate away. 'Tell me who found me. 'I shan't. You shut your peepers.
The song of the peepers is a pleasant memory, and comes welling up with a thousand cherished recollections of our vanished youth; but the song of the cricket that made its home in the jams of the great stone fire-place is pleasanter, and the memories that come floating back with his remembered lay are pleasanter still. He was always there.
These, with the shrill notes of the little peepers along the shore, were old sounds to us, familiar voices, and they fell pleasantly on the ear. We had finished our meal, and taken to our pipes in the evening, as the sun went down among the old forests, away off in the west.
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