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Ten minutes later he came out again with a bundle in his hand, and John saw him go diagonally across the lower fields towards the high- road. 'And this is all the good I have done! said John, musingly readjusting his stock where it cut his neck, and descending towards the mill.
"You can see them now; I've been waiting for you to recognize them," said Houston, smiling; "look off there to the southwest," he added, as Rutherford was readjusting his eye-glasses, preparatory to a careful survey of the horizon. "Well, I'll be blessed!" ejaculated the latter, "I supposed those were clouds. My! but they must be mighty far away, twenty-five miles, I expect, at the least."
Stooping to gather them, he noticed for the first time the heavy letter with the foreign post-marks and large legible hand-writing which, had it not been for this timely accident, would have been thrust unconsciously into the fire, thus forcing our narrative to close here, but instead he raised it hurriedly, throwing the rest back on the floor, and scrutinized it with a searching, confused look, but the more he saw it the more it puzzled him, he was evidently in the dark: finally he tore it open and readjusting his gold spectacles, straightened out its creases and began to read.
"The order has come." I had a sudden sense of loneliness. "I'll take you down to New York," said I. "I prefer to land my guests where I shipped them." As we steamed slowly westward I read the papers. The country was rapidly readjusting itself, was returning to the conditions before the upheaval.
Adams hurried home with it to his wife and little Frankie. A few days more, and it laboriously transpired that old Jeremiah McNulty was readjusting himself to the plan as modified and elaborated by Dill and his associates. Old Jeremiah was particularly taken by the idea of the First Ferry suggesting only that the scene be slightly enlarged, so as to take in the site of his early "yard."
"Hubert Tracy, if you succeed not, remember it is through no fault of mine. Just listen to me." The young man listened, and in a few short words Mrs. Arnold made known her plans. "We will succeed or I am not what I think myself," said Mrs. Arnold, readjusting the spray of heliotrope that was displaced in her corsage.
I was six years old when, one day, readjusting his apron, with him always a sign of resolution, he said to me: "Miraut, our good dog, has turned my roasting-spit during these last fourteen years. I have nothing to reproach him with. He is a good servant, who has never stolen the smallest morsel of turkey or goose. He was always satisfied to lick the roaster as his wage. But he is getting old.
"Kind of him," the old man laughed, placing his thin hands together, after rubbing and readjusting his glasses. "You were away last night; out of town, they said." "Yes, I wanted a breath of fresh air," I answered, laughing. I did not care to tell him where I had been, knowing that he held my love for Ethelwynn as the possible ruin of my career.
"You're right," said the Antiquary, readjusting the sleeves and collar of his coat, "you're right, Caxon; this is a naughty night to swim in. Miss Wardour, let me convey you to the chariot." "Not for worlds till I see my father safe."
He carried the cloak flung over his shoulder and in readjusting it dropped it to the floor, and she saw in the light of the door lamps that his arm hung limp at his side and the gray cloth of his sleeve was heavy and dark with blood. With a quick gesture she stooped and picked up the cloak. "Come! Come! This is all very dreadful you must go to a physician at once."
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