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And with the end the commissioner, in each case, fetched a deep breath, resumed his natural voice, and proceeded to business. "Now, my man," he would say, "you ship A. B. at so many dollars, American gold coin. Sign your name here, if you have one, and can write."
"You're stringing me," protested Tom. "No; I'm after information," Dan asserted. "If you really don't know," Tom resumed, "I'll tell you that black bass are generally caught only by trolling for them. That is, if I fish for bass I've got to keep playing my line over the stern while someone else rows the boat."
"No, gentlemen," he resumed, "my opinion is quite the reverse of yours. I believe this almost unlimited wealth has been given to our friend, because he is eminently fitted to be the steward of his Lord's goods." This declaration was followed by an awkward pause, which Mr. Caske was the first to break.
As the hour of death approached, he resumed somewhat of courage, and at the place of execution died with all outward marks of a repenting sinner. His wife came up into the cart and took her last adieu of him, in the most tender manner that can be imagined.
He expressed particular pleasure in seeing the usual occupations of his family resumed; and reading, drawing, music, and conversation excited the same interest and the same cheerful and judicious observations as ever. One evening he was requested to explain some phenomena respecting the moon, which was seen from the room shining brightly.
"Why, he's mad!" exclaimed the terrified boatswain, who was not far off the point himself. "Mad!" resumed Price. "Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation. As the maniac finished the last words, before they could be aware of his intention, he made a spring from the deck over the bulwark, and disappeared under the wave.
The Judge, terrible now of aspect his face white, his twisted lips red as the blood for which they thirsted glared upon him in evil mockery. Then he controlled himself as if by an effort. He sighed. He resumed his earlier gentle plaintiveness. "Lord! How you waste our time. But I'll have patience with you. Who summoned you?" "Master Pitt there, as he will testify." "Oh!
For while Roderick had managed to get his education, he had managed too, to do wonderful things with the little farm, so that his father had long ago given up the work he had resumed after his year's illness. And Aunt Kirsty had a servant-girl in the kitchen now, and devoted all her time to her garden and her Bible. "You've jist made your father a useless old body.
Thank heaven, I have no reason to complain of Prince Charming that is the pet name I gave him on the contrary, he has made me very happy. If I left him, it was against his will, and because I chose." So saying, Rose-Pompon, whose heart was swelling in spite of her fine airs, could not repress a sigh. "Yes, madame," she resumed, "I left him because I chose for he quite doted on me.
Won't you tell us about it?" Jimmy was once more conscious of a hesitancy in Professor Brierly's manner. Jimmy was quite certain that if the old man were not such a forthright individual he should have used evasive tactics at this time. After a brief pause, scrutinizing briefly the faces in front of him, he resumed his seat. "Schurman was murdered by being struck at the base of his skull.
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