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Prescott lay upon a bed in a small bedroom adjoining the kitchen. Paul, a thoughtful-looking boy sat beside it, ready to answer his call. There had been silence for some time, when Mr. Prescott called feebly "Paul!" "I am here, father," said Paul. "I am almost gone, Paul, I don't think I shall last through the day." "O, father," said Paul, sorrowfully, "Don't leave me."
Some, busy and thoughtful-looking, glide with beautiful motion along the middle of the cañon in flocks, turning aside here and there, lingering as if studying the needs of particular spots, exploring side-cañons, peering into hollows like birds seeking nest-places, or hovering aloft on outspread wings.
She had grown somewhat thinner and more thoughtful-looking since Molly and she had last met, on that fatal 15th of March, but otherwise was unchanged in her serene beauty. Molly clutched her wrist with a burning hand, and, paying not the slightest attention to the other two, nor condescending to any preamble, began at once, in hurried words to explain her mission.
Ambrosch, the thoughtful-looking one who had directed me down by the plum bushes, called my attention to the stout brick walls and the cement floor. “Yes, it is a good way from the house,” he admitted. “But, you see, in winter there are nearly always some of us around to come out and get things.”
'If thaa'rt noan flayed, that doesn't say thaa hasn't a devil, replied Amos, again raising the can to his lips. 'Well, I'm noan to blame if a' cornd help miself, am I? But Amos remained silent. 'Aw say, Amos, said a thoughtful-looking man, 'aw often wonder if thaa'll be content when thaa geets up aboon to see us lot in t'other shop. 'Happen it will, replied Amos.
At last he arrived, a staid, thoughtful-looking man; and before he had time to do more than exchange a few words with her, Mr. Newton appeared and carried him off to see the patient. They seemed a long time gone; and when they returned the doctor wrote a prescription a very simple tonic, he said. "What your uncle needs, Miss Liddell," he said, "is constant nourishment.
"Come on!" said the second man, a frowning, thoughtful-looking fellow of about fifty, the lower part of whose face was hidden by a thick beard a great rarity a hundred years ago and the other dog leaped into the water with a tremendous splash, swam ashore, rushed at Chip, and there was a general worry, half angry, half playful, for a few moments before the pair settled down close to the fire, as if enjoying its warmth.
One man, who looked their superior, was dressed in blue from head to foot. "What's the matter?" I asked the officer of the coast-guard, a sedate, thoughtful-looking man. "Vessel foundered, sir," he answered. "Sprung a leak on Sunday morning. She was laden with iron, and in a heavy ground swell it shifted and knocked a hole in her.
Ambrosch, the thoughtful-looking one who had directed me down by the plum bushes, called my attention to the stout brick walls and the cement floor. 'Yes, it is a good way from the house, he admitted. 'But, you see, in winter there are nearly always some of us around to come out and get things.
When I visited the island, Betty was again living with her husband a grave, sad, thoughtful-looking man, whose admirable moral and mental qualities were extolled to me by no worse a judge of such matters than Mr. K himself, during the few days he spent with Mr. , while we were on the plantation.
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