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It was up to her to save Poor John, dear John, to undo the wrong she had done, but she trembled at the decision as at the brink of a cold stream.
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Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.
He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.
The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
He knew now what he was up against.
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
was and her
He was well rid of her.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He treats her like she was dirt.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
was and save
The musician ran away from school when he was fifteen, but this escapade did not save him from the Gymnasium.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.
Richard M. Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T. Hallowell's Milties Miss.
I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.
Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.
The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".
He was intolerant of what he regarded as loose speculation parading as theory, and sought through his writings to save his beloved science of chemistry from what he regarded as the scourge of modern structural theory.
" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.
Chios, the greatest and most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed a success of several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt.
The Electron was able to save and load programs onto audio cassette via a supplied converter cable that connected it to any standard tape recorder that had the correct sockets.
Gradually starting in the mid-16th century, one plate element after another was discarded to save weight for foot soldiers.
His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.
The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".
* The High Score Cartridge was designed to save player high scores for up to 65 separate games.
In 1749, the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh, the Punjab region and the important trans Indus River to Ahmad Shah in order to save his capital from Afghan attack.
Nora confides to Kristine that she once secretly borrowed money from a disgraced lawyer, Nils Krogstad, to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride.
Knowing Marlborough's destination, Tallard and Villeroi met at Landau in Alsace on 13 June to rapidly construct an action plan to save Bavaria, but the rigidity of the French command system was such that any variations from the original plan had to be sanctioned by Versailles.
When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it.
Such a treaty was seemingly remarkably effective, as the Bastarnae disappear, save for a single passing mention in Tacitus, from the Roman chronicles until c. AD 175, some 160 years after Augustus ' inscription was carved.
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