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She could not keep the tears from springing to her eyes, strive as she would. He was so different so different. He might have been a total stranger, sitting there beside her.
Ten men went galloping off far to the southward, to vanish among the foothills and reappear on the pass behind the enemy, while a dozen Boers, springing up from the bowels of the earth, followed hard on their heels. Ten more took the horses and fell back out of range of the firing; and the remainder of the squadron stayed in their places and helped to play out the game.
Sailor, stretched at full length on his back, allowed Jacko to pull his ears, and bite his claws; and mindless of the monkey's antics, seemed rather to encourage, than object to his vagaries. Wearied, at last, with his pulling, and jumping, and biting, Jacko sought a variation to his amusements, by springing on the weather runner-block, and thence depending by his tail.
The boy was on his feet as quick as thought itself, and springing to the spot, with both hands outspread above her head, he canted the heavy frame work away from her so that it came upon the ground, sinking deep into the earth from its sharp points and considerable weight.
He was immediately set upon as soon as he had touched the ground, and chased and worried by the rest, until he was glad to drop the morsel to save himself. His success, however, emboldened others to try; and they went on springing upward as before but to no purpose. A new idea, however, seemed now to have got into the heads of the older ones; they who up to this time had sat looking on.
"I've made up my mind," announced Gwendolyn, "to have the nurse-maid in the brick house. So, good-by good-by." She began to descend rapidly, with the little old gentleman in a shuffling run, and the Policeman springing from hand to hand as if he feared pursuit, and swaying his legs from side to side with a tick-tock, tick-tock. The going was easy. Soon the bottom of the slope was reached.
The road climbed the song-laden valley of a brook, redolent now with scents of which the rain had robbed the fern, but at length Victoria reached an upland where the young corn was springing from the, black furrows that followed the contours of the hillsides, where the big-eyed cattle lay under the heavy maples and oaks or gazed at her across the fences.
This the foreman helped to fit in place. "Mr. Pollard," reported Owen, soon, "this pipe is a small botch on the part of the contractor." "What's wrong" asked the inventor, quickly, springing forward and bending over to examine. "The pipe is about a half inch too long," replied Owen.
Harvey had never been beyond Swiss Cottage on this extension of the Metropolitan Railway; he looked with interest at the new districts springing up towards Harrow, and talked of them with Mrs. Leach. A day or two after, he travelled by himself to a greater distance on the same line, making a survey of the country from Harrow to Aylesbury.
In the midst of half a dozen kisses with which her little companion rewarded this speech, somebody close by said, pleasantly "What time of night do you suppose it is?" The girls started there was Mrs. Chauncey. "Oh, Mamma!" exclaimed her little daughter, springing to her feet, "I hope you haven't heard what we have been talking about?" "Not a word," said Mrs.
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