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How much fuse are you proposing to waste? Don't you know how to time a fuse?" "No, sir." "You don't! Well, if you don't beat anything I ever saw!" He climbed out of the shaft and spoke down, "Well, idiot, are you going to be all day? Cut the fuse and light it!" The trembling creature began, "If you please, sir, I " "You talk back to me? Cut it and light it!" The boy cut and lit.
The old German himself lay there, his wavy black hair just touched with grey thrown back upon the pillow. The old face was lying there alone in the dark, smiling like a little child's oh, so peacefully. There is a stranger whose coming, they say, is worse than all the ills of life, from whose presence we flee away trembling; but he comes very tenderly sometimes.
It will not even grant his last wish; for here, in mid ocean, he grapples with death. All day long those fair young faces have bent over him, and his friend, the Captain, has been there with them, and little Flora has hovered near with trembling lips, whispering softly, "I am so wery, wery, sorry."
Turning to his son, he said, "Look here, youngster, why hain't you been out doing your chores? D'ye expect me to do your work and mine, too?" "Father," said the impulsive boy with a voice of trembling eagerness, "if you will let me go to college next fall, I'll do my work and yours too. I'll work night and day "
'No, not in all your guard! 'That is true, he said slowly. 'That is true. To my surprise, he spoke in a tone of consideration; and he looked down at the floor. 'Let me think, my friend, he continued. He walked two or three times up and down the room, while I stood trembling. I confess it, trembling.
I had her over the 'phone just now, and her voice was trembling with eagerness as she said, 'Do tell him to please come and see me." This note, so like his sister, so full of her audacities, touched Morton on the quick. It was plain that she was more than half-seas over towards faith in the girl, and quite ready to take her up and exhibit her among her friends.
Twenty were his years when he came to Thrums, and on the very first Sabbath he knocked a board out of the pulpit. Before beginning his trial sermon he handed down the big Bible to the precentor, to give his arms free swing. The congregation, trembling with exhilaration, probed his meaning. Not a square inch of paper, they saw, could be concealed there. Mr.
I sometimes saw my little man trembling with excitement, jumping up and shouting when one was about to reach or overtake another to him these were the Olympian games. However, the competitors did not always play fair, they got in each other's way, or knocked one another down, or put stones on the track.
When one is so near dying as I have been and yet gets better for I am going to get better? Yes! you know it as well as I." The little Pilgrim made no reply, but stood by looking at her charge, not feeling that anything was given her to say; and she was so new to this work that there was a little trembling in her lest she should not do everything as she ought.
And so, with his whole form distorted with horror, and his thin hand crossing himself, and his knees trembling, and his smock fluttering around his frail wisp of a body, and his features growing stonelike, he would, for an hour or more, continue to stand, until at length someone laid a hand in his, and led him home.
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