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Jimmie turned to glare at me, and the treacherous barrel-head gave way, letting him down most ungently into its middle, and rasping his shins in the descent in a manner which must have been particularly trying to one of delicate sensibilities.
He helped her to her feet, not ungently, and was very considerate in accommodating his pace to hers, and in reassuring her when she apologized for having spoilt his morning. And then it was that she thought of Keith Rickman, of his gentleness and his innumerable acts of kindness and of care; and she said to herself, "He would not be impatient with me if I were ill."
Taking the little girl by the shoulder not ungently, but very coldly, and as if he were in a great hurry to be rid of her, he pushed rather than led her to the door. Opening it, he called the nurse, in a sharp, displeased voice. "I don't want the child," he said. "I can't have her here. Don't bring her to me again without being asked."
Not ungently he drew the twigs from the earth, and stood holding them in his hand as a voice behind him said, "Ay, brother, we must say good-by even to the graves we have loved. Stern necessity is our master." Standish, ill pleased at the interruption, turned a dark face upon the new-comer. "And yet I have heard, Master Winslow, that thou art already speaking of marriage with Mistress White.
He took her hand, not ungently, and presently they found themselves on the other side of the fence surrounding the field. Anne had not meant to go, but she knew her father was quite capable of making a scene and she felt she couldn't endure it just then. Once outside, she thought she might escape.
Then Marvin settled ungently on his back, to make assurances doubly sure, Andy Miller threw him off very promptly and Steve rolled over on his back and fought for breath.
Ermine's laugh had come, even amid her tears, his tone was so great a relief to her. She did not know that he had spent some minutes in cooling down his vexation, lest he should speak ungently of her brother's indifference. "Poor Edward," she said, "you don't mean that this is all the reply you have?" "See for yourself," and he pointed to the divisions of the letter he had described.
Finding none, he stooped, picked up the flashlight, tested it, and found it broken from its fall. "Too bad you bust this, we'll have to go out in the dark after I switch off the light," he said with unpleasant facetiousness. "I didn't have one with me, or time to get one, when I got tipped off there was something doing here to-night." He caught her ungently by the arm.
He slammed the stable-door behind him and went off down the street, singing exultantly: " I have been to see my-wife, She's the joy of my life " He jerked open the door of the shack, gave a whoop to raise the dead, and took Dill ungently by the shoulder. "Come alive, yuh seven-foot Dill-pickle! What yuh want to lay here snoring for at this time uh day? Don't yuh know it's morning?"
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