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He said this very quietly, and sat up on the edge of the bed, his feet hanging down, and his hand stretched out towards her.“Honey,” she explained, coaxingly, from where she stood, “can`t you...

With incredible activity she climbed into the cart and began to roll up the bedclothes. In reality she had made up her mind to put him into the cart, and the pallet had been...

A mysterious feeling of terror crept over and helped to sober him. How long had he lain asleep? By degrees he seemed to remember that two or three times he had awakened far enough...

He, too, had attended M. Xaupi`s ball, in his own way and in his proper character, being drawn to the place for the pleasure of seeing the fine ladies arrive and float in, like...

He turned and moved slowly away in the direction of Water Street, where she lived; and she, taking up her basket, shuffled .across the market-place towards Cheapside, muttering to herself the while:“I come mighty...

She was dressed with perfect neatness. A red and yellow Madras kerchief was bound about her head in a high coil, and another was crossed over the bosom of her stiffly starched and smoothly...

In one corner of his sensual mouth rested the stump of a cigan. Once during the proceedings he had produced another, lighted it, and continued quietly smoking. If he took to himself any shame...

“Thank you!” cried the sheriff, cheerily. “One precinc` heard from ne dollah! I am offahed one dollah foh ole King Sol`mon. One dollah the king! Make it a half. One dollah an` a half....

“Stop, gentlemen, stop!” cried the sheriff, who had watched the rising tide of good-humor, and now saw his chance to float in on it with spreading sails. “You`re running the price in the wrong...

He stood on the topmost of the courthouse steps, and for a moment looked down on the crowd with the usual air of official severity.“Gentlemen,” he then cried out sharply, “by an ordah of...