THREE:"Yes, I know," Fred replied; "there's the Gulf Stream, in the Atlantic Ocean, everybody has heard of; it is a great river in the sea, and flows north at the rate of three or four miles an hour."
THREE:"Yes, I know," Fred replied; "there's the Gulf Stream, in the Atlantic Ocean, everybody has heard of; it is a great river in the sea, and flows north at the rate of three or four miles an hour."
THREE:He walked out with him into the square Gothic hall with its hideous tiles, its castellated chimney-piece, its painted wheelbarrow, its card-bearing crocodile, and observed Propert going towards the green-baize door that led to the kitchen passage.��Why, Miss Propert,�� she said. ��Fancy working on Sunday morning when all good people are at church!{180}��
THREE:"Oh! you wouldn't ask a rebel to sing that," she sighed, "would you?""A young lady called to see you this evening," she announced, smilingly.
THREE:She smiled: there was no doubt about that.
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THREE:"Smith," said the Colonel, and then smoked and smiled again till my brow beaded,--"tired?"I looked him squarely in the eyes and began to burn. At every new unfolding of his confidence I had let my own vanity, pride, self-love be more and more flattered, and here at length was getting ready to esteem him less for showing such lack of reserve as to use me as an escape-valve for his pent-up thoughts, when all at once I fancied I saw what he was trying to do. I believed he had guessed my temptations of the night and was making use of himself to warn me how to fight them. "I understand," said I, humbly.
THREE:"It's a praying-machine; I read about it the other day in a book on Japan."
THREE:"Like! Why, I'm just that dead-gone with curiosity that if I don't hear it it'll e'en a'most kill me--aw, haw! haw! haw!"Mr Keeling ceased to address the larch-trees that were the sponsors of his house��s name, and turned round.