She sometimes breaks the bowl from which we drink it,only to smile at seeing us so disconsolate over the triflingloss.
Now, slowly and painfully, it forces up a few tones of thescale, then drops sullenly to its key-note.
”Nathan said afterward it would be impossible to repeat the infinitepathos and tenderness in the hard-boiled old business man’s voice as heintoned the lines, his dangling slipper swinging time with the rhythm.
Until we started this business of floating old Chiswick as amoney-making proposition I had never realized what a perfectly foultime those Stock Exchange chappies must have when the public isn’tbiting freely.
”“Bravo! That’s frank, at any rate!” shouted Ferdishenko, and there wasgeneral laughter.
When Ientered the room, the man, who had entered but a moment before me, andwas still unpacking his parcels, was saying something to his wife in anexcited manner.
But ifsome writer had invented it, all the critics would have jumped down histhroat and said the thing was too improbable for anything.
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than theirill report while you live.
No tonic, however popular and widely-advertised, could have had soinstantly revivifying an effect.
Waddington, descending from the tub, had stampedheavily on his right foot, almost the only portion of his anatomy whichhad up till then come unscathed through the adventures of the night.
Yes, yes, a strangecoincidence—almost a psychological—”“Your soup’ll be cold; do come
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/* "Those who would draw us back, They know not the fearful joy of recklessness.
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Singularly enough, this Syrian Christian has not only beenthe patron saint of England since Richard Cœur de Lion came to the HolyLand on the Third Crusade, but is also a very popular hero of the Moslems.
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He had ordered a fresh bottle when theprince arrived; this took him an hour to drink, and then he hadanother, and another, during the consumption of which he told prettynearly the whole story of his life.
They slammed us into a freightcar and locked us in—pitch dark!—men and women, Lord it didn’t make anydifference who or what we were!—two hundred and twenty-one of us slammedin a _tepluska_, crammed so tightly we couldn’t raise our hands to ourshoulders—twenty-four hours of it—agony just standing up, and when wecouldn’t stand up any longer we just sagged on those about us—they tookout seventy-eight corpses when they finally unlocked the door and let usout—rode with a dead woman pushed so hard into my right side her coldbody hurt my ribs—she was a well-dressed woman too; her fur boa kepttickling my ear—and the typhus down there! What do you hear from the RedCross? Any trains come out this way?”“Doc Seaver and Cleeve are headed this way with a train.
Heinflicted severe punishments on many men, great as well as small, andleft no district until the people had consented to adopt the holy faith.
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The girl had drawn a chair to thewindow and as the mother finished, she remained for a long time with herelbows on the sill, her hands cupped about her face, staring down at theriver and the serried lights across the South End Bridge.
Have you ever heard of the Finer and Better Motion Picture Company ofHollywood, Cal.
Itold him that I should have liked some of the Nassick boys to remainand teach this and other things, but they might be afraid to venturelest they should be sold again.
“May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our republic throughout the world!”At one end of the memorial is inscribed:“The Bones of the Pilgrims found at various times in or near thisenclosure and preserved for many years in the canopy over the Rock werereturned at the time of the Tercentenary celebration and are depositedwithin this monument.
She looked as if she might be deucedly dangerous ifput upon; and something seemed to tell me that she would certainlyregard herself as put upon if she ever found out the game which poorold Rocky had been pulling on her.
“How dared they so much as _think_ of such a thing?I should _die_ with shame if I thought there was a particle of truth init, or if I were to show the letter to Aglaya herself! Who dares playthese jokes upon _us_, the Epanchins? _Why_ didn’t we go to the Yelagininstead of coming down here? I _told_ you we had better go to theYelagin this summer, Ivan Fedorovitch.
»Tiedättehän varsin hyvin, että olen kuin perheenne jäsen — jos voinjotenkin teitä auttaa, niin tietenkin sen teen.
“My dear prince,” he continued, “I have had a terrible misfortune,either last night or early this morning.
It never struck him that all this refined simplicity and nobility andwit and personal dignity might possibly be no more than an exquisiteartistic polish.
Poor Hippolyte sobbed hysterically; he wrunghis hands; he approached everyone in turn—even Ferdishenko—and tookthem by both hands, and swore solemnly that he had forgotten—absolutelyforgotten—“accidentally, and not on purpose,”—to put a cap in—that he“had ten of them, at least, in his pocket.
”“Won’t you be ashamed, afterwards, to reflect that your wife verynearly ran away with Rogojin?”“Oh, you were raving, you were in a fever; you are still halfdelirious.
Near the rock is a spring, at whichOlaf washed himself; and therefore at the present day, when the cattlein the valley are sick, their illness is made better by their drinkingat this well.
The last we heard of Liemba was that at a great way north-west, it isdammed up by rocks, and where it surmounts these there is a greatwaterfall.
"What sort of a girl was it that came in through the window?""My informant describes her as small, sir, and of a neat figure.