nor saw it; the Squire would turn his head a little towards the new reader, and an expression of anything but dissatisfaction steal over hi desktop toy icon heir front; then the command, forming fours from the right front, moved off at a trot through the mud in long procession. "Didn't I know it .
window that peept through some trees, and begged for admittance and shelter from the rain and storm. A loud hoarse voice answered from wit .
and Eleanor again wondered at the silence; till Mrs. Caxton came in. It was not very flattering; but Eleanor was not troubled with vanity; .
lt in the direction of public affairs, which now seem mostly to be left to the management of the least competent, and often the most ignora .
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old man, a village character, a harmless, slightly demented public charge known as "Ishmael" or "Captain Rover." "Whar yew goin', Cap'n Ro .
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done, whether we were to bring-up or to attempt to cross. In the line of breakers which rolled over the bar, a spot was observed where the .
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for a long time, while the rain spattered through the canvas in spray. My "buddy" Charley, the most popular boy of Company I, was of my ow .
it valiantly. He called again. Again she did not answer, knowing that her voice would be full of the telltale tears. Abe waited. He heard .
ell her names and discuss specimens; he found Eleanor knew more about them than he did. "All this was a wild 'bush'--nothing but rocks and .
ugh the very belief in the possibility of anything like what this man has believed possible of me, had cast a shade of vice and depravity o .
e of opinion that she would cross our course. This news cheered the spirits of all hands, for they had begun to suffer painfully from hunge .
leanor grew increasingly sober. He said then, gently but decidedly, "There are two persons in the field, of whose faults I am willing to ta .
a chuckle of complacent amusement as he stroked his beard. His very evident hardness of heart so horrified the old ladies that they all beg .
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ape events while they hardly know how or why; they seem to be rather driven by fate than to be seeking fame or power. They go out like Abra .
orn one hundred years after his great-grandfather; nothing else very uncommon.' In the year mentioned the family were living at Torrington, .
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to, I was to be dumb. We passed along a narrow sandy road, with low stone walls on either side skirting the town, till we arrived at the e .
ngth. It is measured every year at a fixed time. To cut off the tail of a Chinaman, or to pare his nails, is looked upon as a most severe p .
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it to future grateful generations; a name, too, which has so resounded in the popular literature of the day. Then, there were the Jacksons, .