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"I was the first white child born in the town," said Sampson. "I know every foot of it as well as I do my own barn, and I don't want no better place to live in than Merleville. It don't lack but a fraction of being ten miles square. Right in the centre, perhaps a leetle south, there's about the prettiest pond you ever saw.
As Sampson paused a moment he was a prudent, deliberate man in all his ways he must have read in the faces of all the monks who gathered round him, in the murmured growl that monastic obedience just kept within bounds, very emphatic counsel of refusal.
She was dressed in mourning, and I looked at her with great interest. She had the appearance of being extremely delicate, and her face was remarkably pale and melancholy; but she was very pretty. He introduced her as his niece, Miss Niner. 'Are you strolling, Mr. Sampson? Is it possible you can be idle? It WAS possible, and I WAS strolling. 'Shall we stroll together? 'With pleasure.
"Certainly I'll listen," said Joe. "I've got a little time off." And then Felix Gussing told his tale of woe, as will be found in the next chapter. "Her name is Clara, and she is the daughter of Major Thomas Botts Sampson, of the regular army," began Felix Gussing. "Then her father is a military man." "Exactly, and that is the trouble," and the dude gave a groan.
"Russ you think you told me once he you think he still " She was not facing me at all now. She had her head bent. Both hands were at her breast, and I saw it heave. Her cheek was white as a flower, her neck darkly, richly red with mounting blood. I understood. And I pitied her and hated myself and marveled at this thing, love. It made another woman out of Diane Sampson.
When Sampson had entered the forecastle after his rescue by Denman, he found a few of his mates in their bunks, the rest sitting around in disconsolate postures, some holding their aching heads, others looking indifferently at him with bleary eyes.
The Bohr began the day's proceedings by opening fire with her 9-inch gun upon the artillery of our 3rd Division, which had taken up a position upon the lower slopes of Mount Sampson, from which it could reach the Russian batteries established upon the crest of the Nanshan Heights.
Rangely, just behind her, was chatting with Miss Frances in that half amorous badinage which some girls always provoke, perhaps because they expect and keenly relish it. "Oh, no," he observed, just as Mrs. Sampson was able to give an ear to what was being said by the young people. "I am not fickle.
These were, the Royal Exchange, which went as admiral, commanded by Captain George Cave; the May-flower, vice-admiral, commanded by Captain William Anthony; and the Sampson, which my lord was pleased to commit to me, Nicholas Downton. In all the three ships there were embarked 420 men of all sorts, or 140 in each. Besides these, there, was a pinnace: called the Violet, or Why-not-I.
Clearly the announcement was a surprise. "What do you think of that?" was asked on all sides. "And now," went on Jim Tracy, "following the invariable policy of the Sampson Brothers' Circus, we are going to keep our word again, and give you just what we advertised we would a wonderful under-water act, full of thrills, and interesting in the extreme.
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