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"We do harm to no one, and live on roots and leaves, perfectly happy if we are but let alone. We dread the fall it is then that the hunters most often come, though sometimes they visit us in the spring. Ah me!" "Are they after you, too?" cried Phil compassionately. "You are so small that I shouldn't have thought your skins would be much good to them!"
When the person on the beach came near Colman, he turned and stood watching the light till it went out, and then came on. Colman stepped out, and the comer said, "Halloa, Phil! is that you? You startled me. Going in?" Philip only nodded, and they walked back to the house together, Field whistling absently. They went up to their room, and Field sat by the window while Colman struck a light.
"We'll freeze to death, or have pneumonia, then," put in Lillian plaintively. Phil and Madge were talking together in low tones. Madge nodded her head wisely. "It's worth trying," declared Phil stoutly. Turning to the chaperon, she said: "Miss Jenny Ann, Madge and I are going back to the boat. We will get our steamer blankets and some matches.
But you know " the long, magnetic eyes regarded her fixedly "you know what is in my heart." Phil Abingdon bit her lip, merely nodding in reply. "Let us then try to forget, if only for a while," said Ormuz Khan. "I could show you so easily, if you would consent to allow me, that those we love never leave us." The spell of his haunting voice was beginning to have its effect.
"But Dad, they say you can't get real Americans to do this kind of work," said Little Jim. "Deal with facts, Jimmy; deal with facts," drawled his father. "I'm working here. Will Endicott, John Allen, Phil Chadwick are all day laborers. Our forefathers founded this government and this town. What's happened to it and to us? It's too late for us older men to do much.
This plan Paul approved, and it was to be carried into execution immediately. "I will go down to the Cortlandt Street Ferry with you, Phil," said Paul. "I should like to have you, if it will not take you from your business, Paolo." "My business can wait," said Paul. "I mean to see you safe out of the city. The padrone may be in search of you already."
Phyllis, heard from behind a cold, unsympathetic door, and Phyllis seen in all her virginal Burne-Jones attractiveness, might as well be two different girls. If you carried on a conversation with Miss Rivers on ethics and conventionalities and curates, and things of that kind from behind a door, without having first peeped round to see what she was like, you would do the real Phil an injustice.
Selincourt's. It looked like Oily Dave, but Phil said last night that he was away at the fishing," Miles answered, as he turned back into the store. "So he was," said Katherine. "There was the usual legend in his dirty windows that all drinks must wait until he came back, which is a fearful temptation to temperance people to wish that he would never come back at all."
We are still ignorant of the source of animal heat, though half a century ago the chemists thought they had proved it was owing to a sort of combustion of the carbon of the blood. Phil.
What has all that to do with me?" "A good deal, I'm afraid. You know how much, better than I do." "Perhaps I'm stupid. You'll have to be a great deal clearer before I can understand you." "I've noticed that it's a lot easier to understand what you want to than what you don't want to." Sharply a thought smote her. "Have you seen Phil Norris lately?" "No, I haven't.
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