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Swift River was soon crossed that stream where Sam had once had such a stirring adventure and they bowled along past the Fox and other farms. "Here we are!" shouted Dick at last. "There is Uncle Randolph out on the porch to greet us!" "And there is Aunt Martha!" added Sam. "I do believe they look happy, don't you, Tom?"
There was a moral stirring in England, and several writers have commented upon the fact that England subverted her own conscious purposes by her unconscious and instinctive morality. There was a strong feeling against war, even a widespread moral sense that England had become too civilized to wage war. There was a shrinking from the economic hardships that war would entail.
If old flour is used a little more milk may be found necessary. Put into a stewpan a pint of water, a piece of butter as large as an egg and a tablespoonful of sugar. When it boils stir into it one pint of sifted flour, stirring briskly and thoroughly.
Accustomed from his earliest childhood to rule, he could not brook restraint, and when it was put upon him, he had rebelled against it, stirring up strife, and leading on his comrades, who, used as they were to vice, marveled that one so young should be so deeply depraved. The sun was set.
"Now, Lucy, let us leave the gentleman to what he will like better than soft words even from a queen. Good night, sir, we shall be stirring at daybreak;" and with this farewell King Cole took the lady's arm, and retired with her into an inner compartment of the caravan. Left to himself, our hero looked round with surprise at the exceeding neatness which reigned over the whole apartment.
I had barely settled comfortably into my place, wondering how long human patience could endure the sting of insects and the hot close air without moving or stirring a leaf, when the heavy silken rustle sounded close at hand, and I heard the grip of his talons on the log.
Contarini knelt down, and first he kissed the arching instep, and then her hand, that felt like a young dove just stirring under his touch, and his lips caressed the satin of her arm, and at last, with a fierce little choking cry, they found her own that waited for them, and there was no more room for words.
A murmur of admiration went around the room like the stirring of leaves before a vagrant breeze. "Mrs. Dillingham," said Mr. Balfour, "where do you reside?" "In this city, sir." "Have you always lived here?" "Always." "Do you know Paul Benedict?" "I do, sir." "How long have you known him?" "From the time I was born until he left New York, after his marriage." "What is his relation to you?"
That man isn't capable of stirring the emotions of a poster girl with orange skin and purple hair, let alone a flesh and blood woman. Something outside herself don't laugh; I'm a woman and I know somebody, not Graves himself, bred that folly. If she were another sort of nature, I'd say she married for spite; but she " "For respite, perhaps respite from herself. I've known cases.
The second day was not filled with stirring events, and they went along with considerable speed, and judging from their former estimates the distance traveled during the two days must have brought them fully forty or fifty miles from home, so they counted on being able to reach the location of the boat some time during the following day.
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