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Again and again the two boys exerted themselves to the utmost, but the sole result of their efforts was to break the chairs. Finally, well-nigh exhausted, they stopped. "It's no use, Bob," panted Hugh. "The door is stronger than the chairs." "We've got to get out of here though." "The only way I can see is the window." "But we can't jump that far; we'd only break a leg or something.
That word was, "Victoria!" The six hussars who crowded around him now stopped in their murderous work. They saw that Bonnier was dead really dead and that their task was accomplished. Now commenced the appropriation of the spoils, the reward that had been promised to them.
On the way back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney Street to get her banjo, which she had left to have its head tightened; and thus burdened they regained the "town," Condy grieving audibly at having to carry "brown-paper bundles through the street."
Over the clouds and drifts of snow, and through the white flakes they rushed, the sleigh-bells playing a merry tune. "Oh, this is a wonderful voyage!" thought the Nodding Donkey. "I wonder when I shall reach the Earth?" Suddenly there was a hard shock. The sleigh stopped as Santa Claus shouted, and then, all at once, the Nodding Donkey felt himself shooting out of the hole in the bag.
Say: 'God strike me dead and condemn me eternally to the everlasting flames of hell if I ever tell!" This entailed quick sobriety, though only benevolence was in the face above him. The jig-step stopped, and the boy pondered, frightened. "Have I got to say that?" Mr. Carewe produced a bank-bill about which the boy beheld a halo.
He caused you to draw it from a box where there was no blank, and the key had been in the snuff-box long before it came into your possession." "I understand you. And the monk who stopped me in my way and addressed me in a manner so solemn." "Was the same who, as I hear, has been wounded in the chimney. He is one of my accomplices, and under that disguise has rendered me many important services."
Adder drove me down, and stopped his coach at the inn, and rowed me the half-mile up. We will lunch, if you propose; but presently. My dear, I have to tell you things. You have heard? 'The accident? Aminta tried to read in Mrs. Lawrence's eyes whether it closely concerned her.
All is hazy yet, but skies clear, and so do most of our problems. If the two ends of my string should chance to come together " But here a look from his Chief stopped him. "Let us pray that they won't. But if they do, we shall not shirk our duty, Gryce." "Assurance does it, sir a great deal of assurance. Not that I have much " Here Mr. Gryce laughed, with the result that Sweetwater laughed also.
Make haste, Marie; I'm dying to see it," said Belle, dancing about the great trunk, as the maid carefully unfolded tissue papers and muslin wrappers. A young girl's first ball-dress is a grand affair, in her eyes, at least; and Belle soon stopped dancing, to stand with clasped hands, eager eyes and parted lips before the snowy pile of illusion that was at last daintily lifted out upon the bed.
Four miles from town we stopped at Mrs. Brown's to see mother, and after a few moments' talk, went on our road. I saw the first Yankee camp that Will Pinckney and Colonel Bird had set fire to the day of the battle. Such a shocking sight of charred wood, burnt clothes, tents, and all imaginable articles strewn around, I had never before seen.
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