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The dew had fallen very thickly and the long grass and corn were wringing wet; consequently we all got our feet and legs soaked. Then dummy ammunition was distributed. At about 2 a.m. we had permission to lie down where we were and get some sleep if we could! I lay down in the dirt at the roadside and had an hour or two's sleep.
'I had maist forgotten't, said the hardy Borderer; 'but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins' Latch, wi' ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o' yon scaff-raff. 'But are you prudent, my good sir, said Brown, 'not to take an hour or two's repose after receiving such severe contusions?
The girl regarded him approvingly. "You can loosen the stud-bolts on the motor first. Come on," she said. "I'll show you." Bandrist followed after them. "May I help?" he asked. She shook her head with decision. "Two's as many as can conveniently work around the engine," she answered. The work of tearing down the motor began at once.
And then we say our paternosters, too; and all the while we are talking she is shewing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things He did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again." "I see," said Isabel; and after a moment or two's silence Mistress Margaret got up and went into the house. The girl sat still with her hands clasped round her knee.
They were terribly heavy, but despair lent me strength, and after an hour or two's work, I had managed to roll several of them to the foot of the ladder, and with an effort of which I would not have believed myself capable had been able to build them one on top of another against the wall. So, I found myself able to grasp the lowest rung with my hands.
The long journey, occupying some fourteen or fifteen hours, is exceedingly tedious, and should be broken at Lyons, especially in the summer-time. Lyons is one of the largest and most important cities in France, very interesting in its manufactures, and well worth a day or two's visit.
And, their baggage arriving, Jack proceeded to get ready for a bath and a general furbishing. He seemed very particular. "Going out?" asked Tom. "Why er yes. Thought I'd go to call on Bessie Gleason. This is her night off duty hers and her mother's." "How do you know?" "Well er she said so. Want to come?" "Nixy. Two's company and you know what three is." "Oh, come on! Mrs.
There were her heartstrings at their odd little twitching again! "You won't have to go home at all, Evangeline. I've got all the materials " but at sight of the child's face, a little fallen and troubled, she hastily appended "except the eggs. I guess you'd better go home and get those." "Two!" sang Evangeline joyously, already on her way; "I've got two. Two's a lot of eggs, isn't it?"
The orgy lasted far into the night: the pleasures of the next day were discussed with enthusiasm, and Bertrand of Artois protested in a loud voice that if they were so late now some would not rise early on the morrow. Andre declared that, for his part, an hour or two's rest would be enough to get over his fatigue, and he eagerly protested that it would be well for others to follow his example.
"Twice two's five!" he said quietly, at which there was a laugh at Peter's expense, and work went on again. For some time they worked diligently, and then Nilen rose. Fris saw it, but went on reading. "Which is the lightest, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead? I can't find it in the answers." Fris's hands trembled as he held the paper up close to his face to see something or other better.
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