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The establishment of Stoney Creek was comprised within two acres of ground. It consisted of eight or nine houses three of which, however, alone met the eye on approaching by the lake.
The housekeeper gave us an old sheet. And the next day we played a game. Of course he beat me. But he said I would make a good player if I tried hard and kept at it. After that we used to play almost every day, if it wasn't too hot. Only if I didn't have my lessons good he wouldn't play. One day I got behind the stone wall we called it Stoney Bunker and couldn't get out, and said "darn."
On the west side there was an open, marshy lot which separated the cottage in the trees from Stoney Island Avenue, the artery that connects Pullman and the surrounding villages with Chicago. An old German had lived in it, Mrs. Preston explained, until his death a year or two ago. He had a little chicken farm.
Take it away! As with a set purpose of implying a misgiving that if nourished upon similar meats, she might come to be like that charmer, which would be a fatal consummation. Aware of her enemy, Lady Tippins tries a youthful sally or two, and tries the eye-glass; but, from the impenetrable cap and snorting armour of the stoney aunt all weapons rebound powerless.
Assuming that each planet originally drew from a common stock, and that the amount and density of its atmosphere is measured by its force of gravity, it can be shown that Mars should have an atmosphere less than one fifth as dense as the earth's. Dr. Johnstone Stoney has attacked the problem of planetary atmospheres in another way.
Claude answered, 'To Stoney Bridge, to call upon Mr. Stevens; they mean to ask him to dine one day next week, to be introduced to his pupils. 'Is he an Oxford or Cambridge man? asked Lily. 'Oxford, exclaimed Jane, quite forgetting whence she had derived her information, 'he is a fellow of 'Indeed? said Lily; 'how do you know that? 'Why, we have all been talking of him lately, said Jane.
And this snort being regular in its reproduction, at length comes to be expected by the company, who make embarrassing pauses when it is falling due, and by waiting for it, render it more emphatic when it comes. The stoney aunt has likewise an injurious way of rejecting all dishes whereof Lady Tippins partakes: saying aloud when they are proffered to her, 'No, no, no, not for me.
"Gih, massa! here 'em is; 'e's jus' as Massa Stoney give 'em," said the negro, drawing forth a piece of rusty and tainted bacon, weighing about fifteen pounds, and, in spots, perfectly alive with motion; about a half-bushel of corn-grits; and a small keg of molasses, with a piece of leather attached to the bung. "Is that all?" inquired the captain peremptorily.
In the mean time, I climbed one of the highest hills among those that overlooked the harbour, which afforded by no means a comfortable prospect: The low land near the river is wholly over-run with mangroves, among which the salt water flows every tide; and the high land appeared to be everywhere stoney and barren.
And so, Lady Tippins, quite undetermined whether today is the day before yesterday, or the day after to-morrow, or the week after next, fades away; and Mortimer Lightwood and Eugene fade away, and Twemlow fades away, and the stoney aunt goes away she declines to fade, proving rock to the last and even the unknowns are slowly strained off, and it is all over.
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