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A meal was made from the supplies with which each had been provided, and an hour or two later Haggis turned up with the pack-horse. It was not considered necessary to pitch the tent that night, as a very early start was proposed to be taken at the streak of dawn. So each lay down as he was, with a sand-heap for a pillow, and soon the little camp was fast asleep. They needed no rocking.
You will remember how the night we arrived on the Aisne Huggie and I stretched ourselves on a sand-heap at the side of the road just above Ciry and watched dim columns of Germans crawling like grey worms up the slopes the other side of the valley. We were certain that the old Division was still in hot cry on the heels of a rapidly retreating foe.
Then he looked calmly at his grave, and only prayed the executioner not to put his head between his feet; after which he returned to the sand-heap and exclaimed "Now to God!" Upon which, M. Vitus blessed him yet again, and spake "O God, Father, who hast brought back this lost son, and filled this foolish soul with wisdom; ah!
In greate haste and as fast as he could he got down again to the roadway, hurried across the smooth pavement, on both sides of which the long perspective of man-headed lions kept guard, and painfully clambered up a sand-heap on the opposite side.
Jens got nimbly on his feet; he always awoke with a cry of terror, guarding his head; but Emil and Peter, who were in the hobbledehoy stage, were terribly difficult to wake. Pelle would hasten downstairs, and begin to set everything in order, filling the soaking-tub and laying a sand-heap by the window-bench for the master to spit into.
'She did it inadvertently, without an idea of my profiting by it. Diana indicated the scene in a glance. 'Dreary country, do you think? 'Anywhere! said he. They walked up the sand-heap. The roaring Easter with its shrieks and whistles at her ribands was not favourable to speech. His 'Anywhere! had a penetrating significance, the fuller for the break that left it vague.
After having inspected the outposts, I went back, bedded myself in a soft sand-heap, covered myself up, and was soon fast and peacefully asleep. During the night the dew moistened the sand, and when I awoke in the morning I found myself encased in a plastering which could not be removed for days.
'There is a post come in from India, I observe, he said, after a short silence. 'By the by! and letters from Mr. Jack Maldon! said the Doctor. 'Indeed! 'Poor dear Jack! said Mrs. Markleham, shaking her head. 'That trying climate! like living, they tell me, on a sand-heap, underneath a burning-glass! He looked strong, but he wasn't.
At first he said to himself, "I may as well go home to my own house and set my affairs in order, for in two days I must die, for how can I find in this great kingdom the two men I am in search of? I might as well seek in a sand-heap two particular grains of sand."
If not, I'll save it up in my secret breast till you're ready to make a trade." "To think," said Mrs. Hawthorne, still engrossed by her dream of absent and bygone things, "that we're the same little girls and one of them barefoot! who used to play house together on a sand-heap of old Cape Cod and pin on any old rag that would tail along the ground and play ladies! 'My dear Mrs.
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