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I got down and fought off the excited beasts, knocked one of them down for his cruelty, and lifted the fence to liberate the prisoner; and when he was free his companions, the ones that had been ripping his hide, ran up to congratulate him upon his good fortune; and in the whole performance I saw a heartless phase of human life, musing as I rearranged the rails that had been lifted away, and when I straightened up there stood Etheredge looking at me.
The man, without asking permission, rearranged his master's cushions with a practised hand. "The young gentleman had better have some supper upstairs, sir, as it's so late," he suggested. "I'll see to it myself." "Send him in to me directly they come, Vespasian." "Yes, sir."
She then gave him a large slice of the cake. Veronica, contrary to her wont, huddled herself on the sofa. Arthur played round the chair of mother, who looked happy and forgetful. After Temperance had rearranged the table for father's supper we were quiet.
Women still learn to dance; but no longer the young men, sir, no longer. Baccarat, races, and the minor theatres that's what they enjoy. It's a little the fault of the Government." "How can that be?" "M. Jules Ferry has recently rearranged the curriculum of the University. He has made certain studies obligatory modern languages, for instance.
"Dat baby-faced mornin'-glory done got Mandy all wobbly 'bout de heart," she declared to herself, as she crossed to the window for a sight of the pastor. It was nearly dark when she saw him coming slowly down the path from the hill. She lighted the study-lamp, rearranged the cushions, and tried to make the room look cheery for his entrance. He stopped in the hall and hung up his hat.
He sighed and rearranged the articles in their envelopes. "Yes," agreed the detective; "it's hard luck. You've got every reason to be interested in running down the truth in this mix-up. I wish you could tell me where you think you saw this man the time he had neither the gold tooth nor the brown beard." "Be patient, my friend Mr. Braceway. By tomorrow I may remember.
Then she has the impudence to allow someone to ring her up here at the house; and finally I discover her upsetting the table after Benson had laid it and after I had rearranged it." She glanced indignantly in the direction of the lobby. "Perhaps one day," she concluded, pathetically, as she walked slowly from the room, "we shall find a parlourmaid who is a parlourmaid. Good evening, sir."
Less and less remained of the figure all the facts of which had long ago so hardened for him. She was a handsome, grave, authoritative, but refined and, as it were, physically rearranged person she, the outrageous vulgarity of whose prime assault had kept him shuddering so long as a shudder was in him.
"We are such old friends, remember," Mrs. Pendomer pleaded, and rearranged the pillows, soothingly, about her hostess; "and I want to talk to you quietly and sensibly." Patricia sank back among the pillows, and inhaled the fresh air, which, in spite of herself, she found agreeable. "I somehow, I don't feel very sensible," she murmured, half sulky and half shame-faced. Mrs.
"Savina," he said, using for the first time that name, "you must get yourself together; I can't have you exposed like this to accident." She smiled wanly, in response, and then sat upright moving her body, her arms, with an air of insuperable weariness. Her expression was dazed; but, instinctively, she rearranged her slightly disordered hair.
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