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About ten o'clock his grandfather called to him from the foot of the stairs and asked him to come down. "Mr. Kendall's on the phone," said Captain Zelotes. "He's worried about Helen. She's up to West Harniss sittin' up along of Lurany Howes, who's been sick so long. She ain't come home, and the old gentleman's frettin' about her walkin' down from there alone so late.
It was before the days o' the Moderates weary fa' them; but ill things are like guid they baith come bit by bit, a pickle at a time; and there were folk even then that said the Lord had left the college professors to their ain devices, an' the lads that went to study wi' them wad hae done mair and better sittin' in a peat-bog, like their forebears of the persecution, wi' a Bible under their oxter and a speerit o' prayer in their heart.
'Cause I got a bit of a cough! disturbs fellers a bit ... last feller said as 'ow 'e couldn't get a bit o' sleep because of it damned rot I call it. 'Owever it isn't out of doors you ought to be sittin', chucky. Feelin' bad?" Peter looked at her out of his half-closed eyes. "I can't bother any more," he said to her sleepily. "They're so cruel they won't let me go to sleep.
"Gawd!" said Glad, her chin almost on her knees, her eyes staring fearsomely. "S'pose it was an' us sittin' 'ere an' not knowin' it an' no one knowin' it nor gettin' the good of it.
"Sure, but no matter how able a New York policeman is, Mr. Seaton, he can't be a mother! And it's too late! The judge is out o' patience." "Look here, Foley, hasn't he any friends at all?" "There's several that want to be friends, but he won't have 'em. He's sittin' in his cell for all the world like a bull pup the first time he's tied." Mr. Seaton cleared his throat.
The herder that was with Jim had taken the one that was shot into Watson’s, so when my son found Jim he was alone, sittin’ on the edge of the cliff with his dead dawg, an’ the sky about was black with buzzards; an’ Jim he just sat an’ stared up at ’em, and when my son spoke to him he never answered any more than a dead man.
Perhaps you have at one time or another conducted a humorous column for a Metropolitan newspaper?" "Well, I've done my share towards fillin' up the 'lost' column," said Mr. Smilk modestly. "Say, if we're going to keep up this talkfest much longer, I got to let my hands down. The blood's runnin' out of 'em. What are you goin' to do with me? Keep me sittin' here till morning?"
I did all the jorin'. He'd always say, 'Come now, Martha, there's reason in everythink, just w'en I'd be mad because I couldn't see no reason in nothink. He was sittin' in the back of the coach, an' it was one wet night, an' only a few passengers for a wonder, who was glad to take refuge inside.
'An' says he, "Tim Rooney, you're there, my boy, Kep' down in the bog-hole wid the force iv suction, An' tisn't myself you'll throuble or annoy, To the best o' my opinion, to the resurrection." 'With that, on he walks to the town o' Drumgoole, And sot by the fire in an inn was there; And sittin' beside him, says the ghost "You fool! 'Tis myself's beside ye, Shamus, everywhere."
Me when I was five, comin' out of the buttery with a cooky in each fist; and me when I was ten sittin' studyin' my lesson book in the corner; and me when I was fifteen, just afore Father died, sittin' all alone thinkin' what I'd do when I went to Boston Tech same as he said he was cal'latin' to send me. Then " He paused and lapsed into one of his fits of musing. His friend drew a breath of relief.
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