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And when Leothric and Gaznak came together, each looked at each, and neither spoke a word; but they smote both at once, and their swords met, and each sword knew the other and from whence he came. And whenever the sword of Gaznak smote on the blade of Sacnoth it rebounded gleaming, as hail from off slated roofs; but whenever it fell upon the armour of Leothric, it stripped it off in sheets.
By degrees he led the subject to her changed condition in life the alteration from a cold, damp, smoky hovel, to a warm, clean, slated house the cheerful garden before the door that replaced the mud-heap and the duck-pool and all the other happy changes which a few weeks had effected.
The "Warren" was the United States Army transport vessel that was much used in carrying troops between the different islands. "We ought to be under way soon, then," Hal replied thoughtfully. "I suppose we're still slated to go down among the Moros." "That's the talk in the regiment, anyway," replied Corporal Hyman. "I hope it's true."
Judson could not have told, under the thumbscrews, why he was prompted to tell Gridley a plain lie. But he did it. "I can't remember," he denied. Then then needle-pointed brain got in its word, and he added, "Why?" "I saw you there when I was going up to dinner. You called me in to tell me what you were going to do to Lidgerwood if he slated you for getting drunk. Don't you remember it?"
You see a slated English or Welsh-looking farmhouse amongst some stunted trees, apparently in the sea; you turn down a long avenue of firs, only three feet high, but old-looking, six rows deep on each side.
Charles Smith, Miss Sarah's brother, was walking swiftly uptown from Mr. Easterly's Wall Street office and his face was pale. At last the Cotton Combine was to all appearances an assured fact and he was slated for the Senate.
Old Thomas Lowrie was also taken into council, and his wondering admiration of the bonny slated houses was something worth seeing. Peggy's suggestion of the addition of a little storeroom, in which milk and meal and potatoes could be kept, was put and carried unanimously.
Yet all the time well, well, I believe it was sheer funk now," he laughed; "for I felt uncommonly queer out there in the dusk, alone with with that kind of business; and I was angry with myself for feeling it. Anyhow, I went up I'd lost my donkey boy as well, remember and slated him like a dog. I can't remember what I said exactly only that he stood and stared at me in silence.
Much more in the same strain Stafford wrote to his mother; who, in reply to these letters, "besought him to consider well what he was about, before he suffered himself to begin falling desperately in love with this Rose or Rosamond Gray, or any Irishwoman whatsoever; who, having been bred in a mud-walled cabin, could never be expected to turn out at the long run equal to a true-born Englishwoman, bred in a slated house."
Between the slated roofs sloping toward one another, the high wall of the factory, the tops of the plane-trees in the garden, the many-windowed workshops appeared to her like a promised land, the country of her dreams. That Fromont establishment was to her mind the highest ideal of wealth.
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