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Thompson's up-pricked ear detected another voice, one that immediately set up in him an involuntary eagerness of listening, a clear, liquid voice that called: "Oh, Tommy, there's another wounded one, swimming away. Quick!" Pow! Tommy's twelve-gauge cracked again.
It was a merry jest that, of cramming the bread into the dead man's mouth, but somewhat too wild and salvage for civilized acceptation, besides wasting the good victuals. I have seen when at a siege or a leaguer, Ranald, a living soldier would have been the better, Ranald, for that crust of bread, whilk you threw away on a dead pow."
Evidently the place did not impress her, except as something strange. "Let's go!" she whispered to Eloise. "We've nothing to do here; let's go back to the oranges and palmettos." "But, mother, Jakey is here!" Eloise replied, her eyes fixed upon the old man to whom Mr. Mason had been explaining, and whose "Bress de Lawd. I feels like havin' de pow', ef I b'lieved in it," she heard distinctly.
Early next morning, we rode over to see the quaint town of Upholland, and its fine old church, with the little ivied monastic ruin close by. We returned thence, by way of "Orrell Pow," to Wigan, to meet my engagement at ten in the forenoon.
John, haggard and undone, was awaiting him in the drawing-room. 'Pow, said he, 'I've had a fearful row with Bob, and I can't possibly sleep in our house tonight. Don't talk to me. But let me have one of the beds in your spare room, will you? There's a good chap. 'Why, of course, Johnnie, said Liversage. 'Of course. 'And I'll go right to bed now, said John.
"Yass," he nodded gravely only "nod" is a word too swift for the grave inclining of that mighty pow "yass, ye know, the great thing in matters like this is to get at the Pow-ers, doan't you see? Oh yass, yass; we must get at the Pow-ers!" and he looked as if none but he were equal to the job.
"Somebody's hair on the top of her head in the place where it ought not to be;" and Tom went whistling away with an air of sublime indifference as to the state of his own "curly pow." "Why must you be so fine to go to school?" asked Polly, watching Fan arrange the little frizzles on her forehead, and settle the various streamers and festoons belonging to her dress.
Quoth the Ifrit, "Open for me and I may bring thee weal." The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban. He drank potions and he swallowed pow ders and he used unguents, but naught did him good and none among the host of physicians availed to procure him a cure. At last there came to his city a mighty healer of men and one well stricken in years, the sage Duban highs.
He was of low birth, but having evinced, even from his cradle, an uncommon seriousness of disposition, the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn, as they expressed it, 'might wag his pow in a pulpit yet. With an ambitious view to such a consummation, they pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learning.
Upon no one did the finding of this certificate produce so miraculous an effect as upon Jake. "Fo' de Lawd!" he exclaimed, "I feels as if I mus' have de pow', what I hain't had since I jined de 'Piscopals. To think dat ar was lyin' in thar all dis time, an' I not know it.
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