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We unbent the mainsail, and formed an awning with it over the after part of the boat, made a bed of wet logs of wood, and, with our jackets on, lay down, about six o'clock, to sleep.
"If ye had a big fortune left ye, s'pose ye'd give it all away, would ye?" "Yes, sir, I would." Jerome blushed a little with a brave modesty before the concentrated fire of eyes, but he never unbent his proud young neck as he faced Simon Basset. "S'pose ye'd give away every dollar?" "Yes, sir, I would every dollar." "Lord!" ejaculated Simon Basset, and his bristling, grimy jaws worked again.
He unbent enough to tell me that he had been an athlete, when he was a young man, a professional foot-racer in Eastern Canada. And then his disease had come upon him, and for a quarter of a century he had been a common tramp and vagabond, and he bragged of a personal acquaintance with more city prisons and county jails than any man that ever existed. It was at this stage in our talk that Mr.
As the dwarf spoke, Dick's face relaxed into a compliant smile, and his brows slowly unbent. By the time he had finished, Dick was looking down at Quilp in the same sly manner as Quilp was looking up at him, and there remained nothing more to be done but to set out for the house in question. This they did, straightway.
'Meaning, said Mrs Clennam, with her unbent finger again pointing to the door, 'that man? 'Oh no, ma'am! 'Some friend of his, perhaps? 'No ma'am. Little Dorrit earnestly shook her head. 'Oh no! No one at all like him, or belonging to him. 'Well! said Mrs Clennam, almost smiling. 'It is no affair of mine.
Trent unbent his long legs and stepped to the edge of the drive. A man was walking quickly away from the house in the direction of the great gate. At the noise of a footstep on the gravel, the man wheeled with nervous swiftness and looked earnestly at Trent. The sudden sight of his face was almost terrible, so white and worn it was. Yet it was a young man's face.
Then, after much peering and squinting, they made out that the biggest tent stretched directly at the base of the flagstaff, and contained the despised scarlet rugs, which the boys were still jeering at when they noticed a little canoe, singly manned, put out from the rocky ledge and make swiftly towards them. The Saucy Seven unbent sufficiently to all go in a body to the landing.
I was rather startled, for the man possessed a fierce and threatening aspect, and I was perfectly defenceless. Nevertheless there was are air of manly dignity about him which assured me that he was not likely to be unnecessarily savage. "Qui vive?" demanded he, sternly. I explained my views in coming to this secluded spot. He unbent his dark brow on hearing that I was an Englishman.
It was her business, her duty the thing she came into the world to do and she did it: she unbent her mind, afterwards, over a book! And so the lover of poetry and Browning, after winding-up his faculties over 'Comus' or 'Paracelsus, over 'Julius Caesar' or 'Strafford, may afterwards, if he is so minded, unbend himself over the 'Origin of Species, or that still more fascinating record which tells us how little curly worms, only give them time enough, will cover with earth even the larger kind of stones.
Mr. Donovan grinned in appreciation of this thrust, helped himself liberally from the bottle on the mantel, and took a seat on the bed. We had a "friendly chat." Thus I made the acquaintance also of the Hon. Joseph Mecklin, Speaker of the House, who unbent in the most flattering way on learning my identity. "Mr.
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