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All this time, the air was filled with a clamour of complaints, generally referring to their tracks and burdens; and Christopher and Hubert remarked with amazement, that it was by no means those who had the roughest track, or the heaviest bale to carry, that travelled most laboriously, or seemed least content with the journey.
The others saw him stand a moment against the sky, gazing to the northwest, then he turned and slid down the steep side of the mound to the waiting wagon. "She's comin'!" he remarked, laconically, "an' she's a big one. I reckon we may as well get as far as we can." A few minutes later they saw the sky behind them filling as with a golden mist.
"I would rather go to-day," sobbed the child, trying to choke the tears back. Rolling up her napkin hurriedly, she excused herself almost inaudibly and left the table. "Aunt Prue! she'll cry," remonstrated Marjorie. "Little girls have to cry sometimes," returned Miss Prudence, her own eyes suffused. "She is not rebellious," remarked Morris.
When men like yourself, who represent the foolish curiosity of the public, came to disturb my privacy I was unable to meet them with dignified reserve. By nature I am, I admit, somewhat fiery, and under provocation I am inclined to be violent. I fear you may have remarked it." I nursed my eye and was silent.
"It was lucky I was with you," he remarked to his mother as they rested amid the tangle of Cedar Swamp. "It was lucky we weren't any further out in the lake," she exclaimed. "If you hadn't been with me no doubt I'd have gone where the water was much deeper. And that light would have caught me before I could have reached the shore." What his mother said made Nimble feel bigger than ever.
"By Jove, you must have been pretty certain of his guilt," remarked Chinston, dryly. "Of course I was," retorted Kilsip, in a satisfied tone of voice. "When I told the magistrate where I found the coat, and reminded him of Moreland's acknowledgment at the trial, that he had it in his possession before the murder, I soon got him to see the necessity of having Moreland arrested."
Cawood; I have held her in my arms when she was a baby, and have known her well up till now when she is having babies of her own." "And very good things to have, ma'am in moderation," he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye. "And since she makes you so good a wife, don't you think you ought to comply with her wishes in some things?" "Why, yes, ma'am, certainly I ought; and what's more, I do.
"I'd thought to go over to Coblenz this afternoon and have another look at that place where they so nearly bumped us off last night. But I suppose now that will have to wait." "The alley will be there when we come back unless there's an earthquake in the meantime," remarked Bart. "I wish there would be," declared Tom wrathfully. "I'd like to see the whole place wiped off the map.
Well, to-day it was happily my turn; I wasn't going to finish lunch without knowing all she, at any rate, could tell me about the left eye and the man in bed. "Forty years ago," I now, with ingenuity, remarked, "I suppose it would have been pistols." She assented. "And I like that better don't you for gentlemen?" "Well, you mean that fists are " "Yes," she finished for me.
"Indeed, your honor," said she, "and sure we had everything that was dacent about us, and were quite happy and comfortable, considering, until my poor dear husband God bless him, your worship! kilt his hand, and I don't know where is like to be the end of it." "But," I remarked, "surely, Mrs.