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I shouldn't think so " "Look here, you must explain," said Ralph. "Who are these young men? Where am I staying?" "You are staying with us, of course," she said boldly. "Of course, you're staying with us you don't mind coming, do you?" "If I had, I shouldn't have come," he said sturdily. They walked on in silence; Mary took care not to break it for a time.
He, too, was a little tired, but not in body. Gaspare wound the clock again, and again the tune was trilled forth, competing sturdily with the giant noises of the fair, a little voice that made itself audible by its clearness and precision. "Ecco!" repeated Gaspare. "Will not the signora be happy when she sees what I have brought her from the fair?"
What we expected to do after we got to the summit, I cannot say, for we knew nothing of conditions there and were too tired to imagine we just kept climbing, sturdily, doggedly, breathing heavily, more with excitement than with labor, for it seemed that we were approaching the moon, so bleak and high the roadway ran. I had miscalculated sadly.
'God! an it hadna been for the rigs o' land, I would hae gotten her a' to carry mysell, for as mony gentles as are here. A score of frowning and reproving brows were bent upon the unappalled yeoman, who, having given vent to his displeasure, stalked sturdily downstairs with the rest of the company, totally disregarding the censures of those whom his remarks had scandalised.
"Every moment I think I can hear the click of that awful carriage. He will come back; I am sure he will come back!" "He may," Hamel answered sturdily, "but never to make you people his slaves again. You have done enough. You have earned your freedom." "I agree," Mrs. Fentolin said firmly.
Sprouse put his lips close to Barnes's ear. "Telegraph," he whispered. "It's a system they have of reporting to each other. There are two men patrolling the grounds near the house. You see what we're up against, Barnes. Do you still want to go on with it? If you are going to funk it, say so, and I'll go alone." "I'll stay by you," replied Barnes sturdily.
Trussit, silent before the fire in her room, his aunt not seeing the cards that she laid upon the table, his father not reading his paper for what were they all listening? It was a fierce night and the wind rushed up the high road as though it would tear Peter off his feet and fling him into the sea, but he walked sturdily, no cap on his head and the wind streaming through his hair.
They insisted that he should come ashore, but he sturdily declined to oblige them. "Very well," said Owasso, "I will go and get it." And he ran into the water. "Hand it to me," he said, when he had approached near enough to receive it. "Ha!" answered the Manito, "reach over and get it yourself."
Now the roads became crowded, but never blocked, with troops on the march: infantry of the line, short, sturdily built fellows wearing short capes of greenish gray and trench-helmets of painted steel; Alpini, hardy and active as the goats of their own mountains, their tight-fitting breeches and their green felt hats with the slanting eagle's feather making them look like the chorus of Robin Hood; Bersaglieri, the flower of the Italian army, who have preserved the traditions of their famous corps by still clinging to the flat-brimmed, rakish hat with its huge bunch of drooping feathers; engineers, laden like donkeys with intrenching, bridging, and mining tools; motor-cycle despatch riders, leather-jacketed and mud-bespattered, the light-horsemen of modern war; and, very occasionally, for their hour for action has not yet come, detachments of cavalry, usually armed with lances, their helmets and busbies linen-covered to match the businesslike simplicity of their uniform.
Great boulders were scattered among the thorn bushes, and over their rough and glistening breasts were flung velvet coverings of green moss and grey lichen. On this October day, the heather yet sturdily bore a few last rosy blossoms, and the ripe blackberries shone like black diamonds on the straggling brambles. Here and there a belated furze-bush erected its golden crown.
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