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"He isn't at all the sort of brother-in-law I'd like you to have, my dear," she said to Tip, "but if you'd seen some of the men Joanna's taken up with you'd realize it might have been much worse. I'm told she once had a most hectic romance with her own shepherd ... she's frightfully impressionable, you know." "Is she really?" said Tip in his slow, well-bred voice. "I shouldn't have thought that."
"And a be-yutiful place they're makin' of it," cried Isaac Bolum; "be-yutiful!" "They've added a fancy porch," Henry explained, "and are gittin' blue glass panes for the front door." "We've three spring-beds in town now," put in Isaac in his slow, dreamy way. "If I mind right the Spikers bought theirs before war was declared, so you've seen that one.
His Majesty the Sultan has already sent in large orders for his new harem, which will be finished within a fortnight, and this has naturally strengthened the market and given Circassian stock a strong upward tendency. Taking advantage of the inflated market, many of our shrewdest operators are selling short. There are hints of a 'corner' on Wallachians. "There is nothing new in Nubians. Slow sale.
'You must believe of me what you like, Adela replied in a slow, subdued voice. 'My word would be vain against that of my accuser, whoever it is. 'Your accuser, as you say, happened not only to see you, but to hear you talking. He waited for her surrender before this evidence. Instead of that Adela smiled. 'If my words were reported to you, what fault have you to find with me?
I suppose all parts of your globe are by this time well populated, and how can you be entirely free from trouble when you are living in constant danger of the downfall of these great masses of rock?" "But we don't have meteorites now," replied Thorwald. "Oh, you don't?" "No, they ceased falling long ago. Mars is going slow enough for the present."
Some of those who helped to make the pack seemed a bit slow about relieving the one underneath of their weight, for a half-muffled voice oozed out of the disintegrating mass: "Get off my back, some of you fellows, won't you? What d'ye take me for a land tortoise?"
After a short, decisive engagement the rebels were dispersed into small bands and driven eastward along the boundary line toward Nogales. It was the destiny of Forlorn River, however, never to return to the slow, sleepy tenor of its former existence. Belding's predictions came true. That straggling line of home-seekers was but a forerunner of the real invasion of Altar Valley.
These the priest read in a slow manner, so as that the dying man could easily accompany him, which he did with his hands clasped, upon his breast, and his eyes closed, unless when he raised them occasionally to heaven.
Where the horizon opened widely, it pleased me to watch the curious effect of the rapid movement of near objects contrasted with the slow motion of distant ones.
Sobbing, the boy got to his feet, and taking his hat, crossed slow-footed to the door; there he paused to look back at her, but her staring eyes gazed through him and, turning hopelessly away, he brushed his sleeve across his cheek and, treading slow and heavily along the passage, was gone.
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