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"Very well, then: we will make the attempt," says he, gayly. "'Nothing venture, nothing have.'",Jeremias was plainly enlivened. “There! Isn’t that what I have always said!” he exclaimed. “Wood should be split just so. Kindlings ought to be light and pleasant and coquettish to make the fire dance.”,"What is the initiation itself?" asked Elinor, as the girl turned away.,"Do you mean they want to shoot me?" says Maxwell, in a hurried tone.,The gardener gazed and gazed, and his intent regard crumpled his brow, for he seemed ambitious to be able to say he could see the ship. After a considerable pause, during a portion of which the man sheltered his eyes with his hand, he exclaimed: "If the Minorca's a three-masted vessel, square rigged forward, and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen-mast,[Pg 168] then all that I can say is, your honour, she ain't among that shipping down there.",This cuts him to the heart.,Lastly, Lady Rodney comes to the front with,—,"It couldn't be Griffin," said Patricia earnestly. "She was too disgusted with it.",Billy was skeptical, yet soon convinced, as the little girl slowly and carefully read the problems, followed his directions, and obtained correct results. A few problems were too complicated; these the boy had her mark for attack with recovered sight.,"Does it, Billy, does it?" cried the man, eagerly.,“Yes,” Billy answered breathlessly as he leaped from the buggy; “but we’ll have to go in the way I did if you want to catch ’em sure. We can come out by the trail.”,However, one morning in the first week of vacation, Father said: “You may begin to ride now, John. I had a talk with Carlstrom yesterday.”.