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"Perhaps Phoebe had noticed me glance at her, or perhaps she knew, more than we realized, that we sometimes made fun of her untidiness, for she suddenly said, good-naturedly: "'Do tell what it is, if it's anything about me, I sha'n't care. I'd much rather go home and get my dinner. "'Was it about Phoebe? asked Miss Abbie, instantly. "To this point-blank question, I had to say 'Yes.
I had taken her as a matter of course, played with her and quarrelled with her by turns, without stopping to think what life might be without her. But now I thought of it, and as I lay awake through the morning I realized how much she had been to me, and wondered what the men would do with her. Most of all I wondered why they should have wanted to catch her at all.
Wade shouted repeatedly, and discharged the revolver into the sand. He realized that, although a friend must have fired the rifle, there was nothing to show where he was. "Hello!" "Hello!" The hail was answered by the newcomer, who, thus guided, approached the spot until his voice was near at hand. "Hello!" "Hello! Come on!" The prisoner threw his hat up out of the hole. "Here I am!"
Burton had left off lamenting the chances of damage to her sister's complexion from exposure, for she realized that Katherine must be breadwinner now, and the stern necessities of life had to be first consideration for them all. One day Katherine found to her surprise that some tin buckets of lard were missing from the store.
This is one example of the occasional visibility of the religious thread which ran through a good deal of his personal work at the Conference. For it is a fact not yet realized even by the delegates themselves that distinctly religious motives inspired much that was done by the Conference on what seemed political or social grounds.
He felt that for two centuries he would not tire of being a rabbit. He was in the Palace of Life, of which the very tapestries and curtains were alive. Then he recovered himself, and remembered his affairs. Both men saluted, and iron rang upon iron. It was exactly at the same moment that he realized that his enemy's left ankle was encircled with a ring of salt water that had crept up to his feet.
"Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred. Straker was excited at hearing the account, although he does not seem to have quite realized its true significance. It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing.
This precaution is also connected with the first one, the latter being its condition; for only where it is acknowledged that causes, so long as they are still latent, do not fall under the same category of value as their effects, when these are once realized, it can also be acknowledged that the realm of mind and morality, although it has grown out of the ground of the mechanism of nature, can still have brought something new and higher into the world.
The Colonel related his experiences of the morning. The private detective perspired freely. He realized how near his employer had been to death, and all through him. All efforts to explain his unhappy mistake met with curt interruptions from the Colonel. "Now," said that worthy, in conclusion, "I want you to find out if Braddock has returned to Cronk's place.
Even the conductor on the rear platform did not know what had happened. Only Nan and Rhoda realized fully the trouble. "My dear!" gasped Nan, "we cannot get to him. And nobody can stop the car!" She felt almost a sensation of nausea at the pit of her stomach. She did not weep or lose control of herself. But she felt frightfully helpless.
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