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Updated: July 22, 2025
They were too tired to do anything more than lay their blankets down on a pile of cedar boughs and go to sleep. The next morning they unrolled their booty and gloated over it. It would make a perfect roof, and they felt it repaid all their toils. Upon measurement they found it much larger each way than their log pen. "Just right," said Shorty gleefully. "It'll stick out two feet all around.
"I went back to America before I was nine, and I've been there ever since, till a few weeks ago. Oh see, there are the lights of France! I can't help being excited." "Yes, we'll be in very soon in about ten minutes." "I am glad! I'd better go below and make my hair tidy. Thank you ever so much for helping me to be comfortable." She jumped up, unrolled herself, and began to fold the rug neatly.
The bundle was now unrolled, and when the contents proved to be a plump little dressed pig, the judge looked troubled, whilst Hendon turned pale, and his body was thrilled with an electric shiver of dismay; but the King remained unmoved, protected by his ignorance. The judge meditated, during an ominous pause, then turned to the woman, with the question
Intoxicated, as it were, with the flow of her own words, the countess was really magnificent; her eyes sparkled, her nostrils dilated; the prospect her vivid eloquence thus unrolled she seemed to see, and touch with her quivering fingers. For a moment, la Peyrade was dazzled by this sunrise which suddenly burst upon his life.
"If it hadn't been for you they wouldn't have discovered him last night," she charged. "You betrayed him to his enemies. Can you tell me, then will you tell me is Alan Macdonald dead?" Major King stood, his stern eyes on the glove, unrolled again, now dangling in her hand. "If he was a gentleman, as you said of him once, then he is dead," said he. He turned and left her.
With proud, flashing eyes and queenly air, she coolly surveyed the mass of heads before her, caught an admiring glance from George Clayton, and then, with a steady hand unrolled her manuscript and read. Her subject was "The Outward and the Inward Life," and no gray-haired sage ever handled it more skilfully than she.
He told the secret then, while wonder filled the room and hovered exquisitely above the crowded chair.... Awakened by the silence, presently, the ball of black unrolled itself beside the wire fender, it stretched its four black legs.
There was a good-humoured smile on the man's face a smile that betokened a heart of the largest dimensions. Bob soon roused his chum, who was buried in a blanket. "What's the matter?" questioned the latter, as he unrolled from the coverings. "Can you not smell it?" demanded Mackintosh.
John Van der Does, his captor; presented the banner; of the Saint Matthew to the great church of Leyden, where such was its prodigious length it hung; from floor to ceiling without being entirely unrolled; and there hung, from generation to generation; a worthy companion to the Spanish flags which had been left behind when Valdez abandoned the siege of that heroic city fifteen years before.
And, as for that, I wonder what he'd have to say to such as she is." There was complexity of element enough in the thing she was on her way to do, Bettina was thinking, as she was driven over the white ribbon of country road that unrolled over rise and hollow, between the sheep-dotted greenness of fields and the scented hedges.
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