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"Harder even than you know. He is engaged to one of the dearest little girls possible, but of course if this affair terminates in favor of—" he hesitates palpably, then says with an effort—"my cousin, the engagement comes to an end." Finally the dogs are called off, and reluctantly accompany the jubilant Mickey down the hill. "Now I hope you will feel less pain," she says, with modest triumph..
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“You figgered you was goin’ to git clean away an’ dust it for the dam, huh? Goin’ to tell ’em that we-uns up here was aimin’ to play thunder with that ol’ bunch o’ masonry that’s a-goin’ to take the bread out o’ our mouths, huh?”I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
Two or three Sundays after they had come to the dam, Bob and Jerry found themselves with a day on their hands.
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"Is that all?" says Violet, in a tone of surprise certainly, but as certainly in one of relief. As he makes this last extraordinary remark he looks over his left shoulder, as though fearful of being overheard. Geoffrey, although in reality deeply impressed by the grandeur of all the surroundings, yet cannot keep his eyes from Mona's face, her pretty attitude, her two mighty defenders. She reminds him in some wise of Una and the lion, though the idea is rather far-fetched; and he hardly dares speak to her, lest he shall break the spell that seems to lie upon her. "Such presumption, walking in our wood without permission," she says, haughtily..
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