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tion-lord's archistaft Flossie was longing to know more. Now, as she observed Juliet's “What is it called?”,They were at the dripping roadside tank and back in a trice. Gently where a moment before he had been ferocious with anger, Billy wiped his play-mate’s face, or rather, changed the mud from one spot to another, got him to his feet again, and finally into the buggy with the little girls by his side.,"Oh, certainly, and his reception was all that I could have expected at his hands.","Or an umbrella, you should add. I once knew a woman like that, but she was not like you," says Doatie. "Well, if you are going to be as literal as you now are, until you call for your shroud, I must say I don't envy you.","Nor I," said Isabella. "The major is a kind man, and he wants to see me happy. He is--"，"What does all this mean?" asked Meg, quite surprised at Jen's excitement.，"Talking of Nelson," said Sir William, "have you heard the yarn that is told of Tom Cooke, the actor? He came on in the part of old Barnwell, and when stabbed forgot the words, and would have died speechless. His murderer whispered with agitation, 'For heaven's sake, say something—anything,' on which Tom, throwing up his little three-cornered [Pg 8]hat, shouted in his thick lisp, 'Nelson for ever!' and died amidst louder applause than was ever provoked by the finest strokes of Garrick or Siddons."，One day one of the women said to the other, "It is very lonely here; we have no one to talk with or to visit.""What did she do?" asked Patricia eagerly.

“So they took up Joner an’ tossed him inter the sea.”,The effect which the latter part of this sentence had upon the prisoners in the vault, may be more easily imagined than described. They were now in total darkness in this mansion of the murdered, without means of escape, and in momentary expectation of sharing a fate similar to that of the wretched objects around them. Julia, overcome with distress and terror, sunk on the ground; and Hippolitus, descending from the grate, became insensible of his own danger in his apprehension for her.,Little we fear,"Comin', Ma," responded Anse, sleepily.,Moses heaved a sigh, as he entered the kitchen and took his stand at the washing-machine. One hundred and thirty-seven times that diabolical barrel had to be turned before the dirt accumulated by the Wopp family during the week could be obliterated.,Bob kept quiet. They tied his arms to his[196] sides with the lasso and then one of the men went over to the pony Bob had ridden and, putting a revolver to its head, fired. Bob realized that no matter how mean a citizen a cowboy might be, he would not let an animal suffer. The shot which had dismounted him had hit the pony in one of the hind legs and had broken it.,Suddenly, all heads were raised and a sigh of satisfaction escaped Mrs. Wopp’s lips.,He coloured brightly at this, and his frown was as though a shadow had come between him and the light that revealed his face.,"That will be mutiny. To refuse an order aboard ship is mutiny. In the Navy we hang men for that sort of conduct.",At this moment Captain Acton came on deck. He saw the cloud of sail in an instant, and the Admiral having taken the ship's glass from Captain Weaver's hands, Acton rushed into the deck-house to get his own fine telescope.,“Would you dare sit up on the big red pear?” asked Olaf.,“Wartch yer team Moses,” commanded Mrs. Wopp from the back seat of the democrat..