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The skies were gorgeously dyed over the snug cottages and modest spires; some far woods were folded in a pleasant haze; and the blue mountains lifted their huge backs, voluming in the distance, like some boundary for humanity, with a happier land beyond. Here I might have stood, a few months before, and heard the church bells; and the trees around me might have been musical with birds.
Lightning flared at infrequent intervals and now and then real thunder mingled with that of the artillery. He felt that he might have been back at home. It was like some snug little place in the high hills of Pennsylvania or New York. Like many other Americans, he often felt surprise that Europe should be so much like America. The trees and the grass and the rivers were just the same.
He was credited with sketching a little, writing a little; and he was credited with having received a very snug amount from the combine to which he sold out his safe-manufacturing interests.
"Did you engage a carriage, Major?" he asked. "Yes; there's one now waiting," was the reply. "All right. Now, then, my dear, let's wrap this blanket around you tight and snug." "What are you going to do?" asked Myrtle with a startled look. "Carry you outside. It's pretty cold and snowy, so we must wrap you up. Now, Major, take hold on the other side. Here we go!"
Snug and safe in her crib upstairs the Little Crippled Girl slumbered peacefully on through the general disturbance.
The night, as they had expected, was cold, and he was thankful that he had hung on to the buffalo robe, in which he wrapped himself once more, while Tayoga was snug between two big blankets. Robert dozed, but he was awakened by something stirring near them, and he sat up with his finger on the trigger of his rifle. The Onondaga was already listening and watching, ready with his weapon.
Presently, after one of his frequent halts, Mendouca turned and gave orders to shorten sail. "Clew up and haul down fore and aft; stow everything except the main-staysail; and see that you make a snug furl of it, men!" he cried; adding, as he turned to me
Boldheart now pointed to the horizon, and called the attention of his crew to the taper spars of a ship lying snug in harbour under the guns of a fort. 'She shall be ours at sunrise, said he. 'Serve out a double allowance of grog, and prepare for action. All was now preparation.
I could fancy the poor snug little thing shrinking within, like a guilty conscience. Ah, well says Juvenal, "'Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula." "He has a superb head, though," I replied. I like to allow that other people are handsome now and then it looks generous." "Yes," said Vincent, "for a barber's block: but here comes Mrs.
Fate itself had flung her out of the simple working-class surroundings in which, if she could trust her memory, she had felt so snug and at home, into these immense rooms, where she could never think what to do with herself, and could not understand why so many people kept passing before her eyes.
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