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His hand on the door, Bowers asked, "Your contribution for the county campaign fund ready?" "Draw you a check any time," the candidate returned jauntily. Nevertheless, when the county leader had gone Shelby gave a diligent quarter-hour to his bankbook. By and by he took an opera glass from a drawer and focussed it on the pair below.
Unluckily, at just that moment the sloop dipped and met a big sea squarely. Her bowsprit dove under, burying Jim almost breast-deep, spoiling his aim. The dart struck the fish a glancing blow on the side of the shoulder. Off darted their frightened game. Jim gave a cry of disappointment. "Too bad! Ten feet, if he was an inch! Well, better luck next time!" A quarter-hour passed.
Of course you have seen, even in our day, hour, quarter-hour, and minute glasses." "I used to practice by an hour glass," Jean replied quickly. "At least it was a quarter-of-an-hour glass, and I had to turn it four times." "It would be strange not to have clocks and watches, wouldn't it?" reflected Giusippe as they walked back to the hotel. "I guess it would!" Hannah returned emphatically.
Something tender came into their tones as quarter-hour after quarter-hour went on, and they forgot the lapse of time. It was quite late when she started up, alarmed at her position. 'Rain or no rain, I can stay no longer, she said. 'Do come back, said he, taking her hand. 'I'll return with you. My train has gone. 'No; I shall go on, and get a lodging in Budmouth town, if ever I reach it.
The brush lands along the foot of the cliffs gave way to open fields, bare except for the grass rippled by the wind. It was not the type of country to attract the night runners, and Dalgard wondered a little. They should discover water, preferably a shallow stream, if they wanted to find what the monkey creatures liked best. Within a quarter-hour he knew that Sssuri was not going wrong.
It being now what the people called the "pinking in" of the day, that is, the quarter-hour just before dusk, he did not at first observe the result of his own words upon her. "If it were anything else," she began, and the dryness of her lips was represented in her voice. "But it is such a little thing!" he said, with a deep reproach.
Whether the flag of the port was saluted within the same quarter-hour, I will not undertake to say; it would be quite in keeping to have attempted it. System, preparation, and various tricks of the trade go far to facilitate such rapidity.
A further notion extended to whereof are many written: their principal peculiarities consist in being each of a quarter-hour length, as little as possible regarding Jews and their didactic histories, and, as much as might be, crowding ideas, and images, and out-of-the-way knowledge of all sorts, into the good service of illustrating Gospel truths.
Indeed, I have never known a man who could make you feel so interesting. After dinner he would light an immense brown meerschaum pipe, and smoke for a quarter-hour or so in silence; then he would play a game or two of chess with some one; and by and by he would open his piano, and sing to us till midnight.
But no, my uneasy spirit kept dragging me back at quarter-hour intervals; and always I saw Backus drinking his wine fairly and squarely, and the others throwing theirs away. It was the painfullest night I ever spent. The only hope I had was that we might reach our anchorage with speed that would break up the game. I helped the ship along all I could with my prayers.
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