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Silas heard, but he did not move; he had performed his duty as host; it was the women-folk's turn now to be pleasant. What he wanted was to be let alone. All this was in his face, as he sat hunched up between the arms of the splint rocker. Despite the old lady's protest, Oliver made a step toward the seated man.
I rode the highest horse of all: "Her inquiries about their souls are an impertinence. Why should they be bothered?" These are the sort of things they say in debating societies. But Life talks differently.... Pinker said, "Makes the po'r ole lady 'appy!" As one bends one's head low over the splint one sits unnoticed, a part of the furniture of the ward.
A soldier came out of the house with the narrow shutters, wounded, limping, his foot bound to a splint. Then Sutton came, hurrying to help him. He shouted to her, "Come on, Charlotte, hurry up!" and she called back, "I've got to wait here for John." She watched them go on slowly up the road to Sutton's car; she saw them get in; she saw the car draw out and rush away.
Hector Munro was working over a man with a broken leg she prepared a splint and held the leg while he set it and bound it. She drove a motor into Nieuport when the troops were marching out of it. Her guest for the afternoon was a war correspondent. "This is a retreat," he said. "It is never safe to enter a place when the troops are leaving it. I have had experience."
There was a rattling sound, a clicking noise of flint upon steel, and soon after a glowing spark appeared, then a blue flame, a splint burst into a blaze, and directly after Samson's red and shining features could be seen by the light of the candle he had lit inside a lanthorn.
"I like the old girl, though," said Quin disrespectfully, "she's got so much pep. And talk about your nerve! You should have seen her set her jaw when I put the splint on!" "Is the house very grand?" asked Myrna, hungering for luxurious details. "No," Cass broke in scornfully. "I been in the hall twice. It looks like a museum big pictures and statuary, and everything dark and gloomy."
Randolph's er er secretary." For the life of him he could not get through it without a grin, and to his relief the old lady's lips also twitched. "Much need he had for a secretary!" she said, then added shrewdly: "Aren't you the soldier that put the splint on my leg?" Quin modestly acknowledged that he was. "It was a mighty poor job," said Madam, "but I guess it was better than nothing."
Then the dim figure in long clothes came slowly out and returned up the road toward the old Squire's. "Who was it?" Addison said to me. "Miss Emmons," I replied. "Yes," Addison assented reluctantly. We went into the schoolhouse, struck matches, and at last lighted a pine splint.
The Cimarron doctor's fears for the wound on Hollis's head had proved unfounded and on the tenth day after his experience on the night of the storm, Hollis was sitting on the Hazelton porch, his head still swathed in bandages, his left wrist in a splint, but his spirit still untouched.
They were at first smaller than our horses, some of them not as large as an ordinary Newfoundland dog; others as small as foxes. As if to remind us of his old shape, our horses now and then, but rarely, have, in place of the little splint bones above the hoof, two smaller hoofs, just like the foot of Miohippus.
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