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To William the idea of reform was new and startling and not wholly unattractive. It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer's shop. "'E's got conversion," she said to William. "'E got it quite sudden-like, an' 'e give up all 'is bad ways straight off. 'E's bin like a heavenly saint ever since." William was deeply interested.
And Mary, Ned's wife, remembered how Kate, though she had danced with Peter in the first reel, had not been able to keep her eyes from the corner where Pat sat sulking, and that, sudden-like, she had grown weary of Peter. Mary remembered she had seen a wild look pass in Kate's eyes, and that she had gone over to Pat and pulled him out.
Madeline swept her gaze along the gray, sloping horizon-line to where dark-blue spires rose far beyond the ridge. "Peloncillo Mountains," said Stillwell. "Thet's home, when we get there. We won't see no more of them till afternoon, when they rise up sudden-like." Peloncillo! Madeline murmured the melodious name. Where had she heard it? Then she remembered.
We'll stay in the village overnight an' come back home next day.... Lenore, it strikes me sudden-like, your leavin'.... What will become of me?" All at once he showed the ravages of pain and loss that the last year had added to his life of struggle. Lenore embraced him and felt her heart full. "Dad, I'm not leaving you," she protested.
"How come you to think you was dyin' anyway?" asked the Bishop. "Hillard, you kno', Hillard the old man's been thinkin' he'd go sudden-like a long time." He raised his eyes to heaven: "Yes, Lord, thy servant is even ready." "Last night I felt a kind o' flutterin' of my heart an' I cudn't breathe good. I thought it was death death, Hillard, on the back of his pale horse.
"She is off to foreign lands again at last hev made up her mind quite sudden-like and it is thoughted she'll leave in a day or two. She's been all as if her mind were low for some days past with a sort of sorrow in her face, as if she reproached her own soul. She's the wrong sort of woman for Hintock hardly knowing a beech from a woak that I own.
"Such a man as you," said the senator, looking at the remainder of the Scotch whiskey, "will have the railroad behind you, sure." "One more drink," said Mr. Crewe. "I must go," said Mr. Grady, pouring it out, but that reminds me. It comes over me sudden-like, as I sit here, that you certainly ought to be in the new encyclopeedie of the prominent men of the State.
"Wal, bein' on'y human, I got riled, but, not wishin' to raise a racket, I spat my chew out. I don't know how it come, but, I guess, bein' riled, I jest didn't take notice wher' I dumped it, till, kind o' sudden-like, I found I wus inspectin' the vitals o' that side-show-freak's gun.
Of course you may have a spell of imprisonment; but it is likely that one at least of the ships may be caught going out to-night, and if it happened to be ours you would get the prison without the prize-money." "That is so," Jacques agreed. "If you give me half an hour to think it over I will give you an answer. It's come upon me sudden-like. I will talk it over with the boy.
You all know where them is on the Trail west of Fort Dodge, and how them rocks rises up out of the prairie sudden-like. We was a travelling 'long mighty easy, for we was all afoot, and had hoofed it the whole distance, more than six hundred miles, driving five good mules ahead of us.
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