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Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.

The miners were, in a sense, his own men; but he saw them as objects rather than men, parts of the pit rather than parts of life, crude raw phenomena rather than human beings along with him.

That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.

But I remarked that the Old Soldier took him into custody directly, for her partner; and instructed him, as the first preliminary of initiation, to give her all the silver he had in his pocket.

If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.

Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.

Mary took him in hand, and when she was done with him he was a man and a brother, without distinction of color, and his saturated hair was neatly brushed, and its short curls wrought into a dainty and symmetrical general effect.

The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.

Nightly she debated with Melanie the advisability of sending Pork abroad on the horse with some greenbacks to try to buy food.

Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop.

The debate upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least six more honorable members told six more, during the discussion, that they believed they knew where they were to be found.

Brambles, though churlish when handled, are kindly shelter in early winter, being the latest of the deciduous bushes to lose their leaves.

An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.

Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery.

Well, I ought to turn that defect to advantage, and by being able to do without what other people require I can spend what such things cost upon anybody else.

A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him.

I was crying all the time, but, except that I was conscious of being cold and dejected, I am sure I never thought why I cried.

There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.

He is quieter now than he used to be, if no one provokes him: more sullen and depressed, and less furious.

In the meantime Eustacia, left alone in her cottage at Alderworth, had become considerably depressed by the posture of affairs.

It was with a depressed heart that I walked in the starlight for an hour and more, about the courtyard, and about the brewery, and about the ruined garden.

The girl is young, and we would not have her wed grey hairs, neither would we deprive her of all choice.

His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.

It was clear to me, from the strength of the glasses, that the wearer must have been very blind and helpless when deprived of them.

When at last he descended, it was with triumph in his eyes, but he said nothing to either of us as to the result of his researches.

I leave my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to you.

The turnkey laughed, and gave us good day, and stood laughing at us over the spikes of the wicket when we descended the steps into the street.

There were at least three others whose desire for vengeance upon me would only be increased by the death of their leader.

Huck started sorrowfully away, and Tom stood looking after him, with a strong desire tugging at his heart to yield his pride and go along too.

They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire to see what was going on behind my back.

Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.

Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.

Clair, then it is obvious that no crime has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally detained.

I am looking for Henry every day, and as soon as he comes there will be nothing to detain me at Mansfield.

But, I had already considered that such a course, by detaining us there, or binding us to come back, might be fatal to Provis.

Evidently he had overheard the whole conversation, for he grinned up at her as maliciously as a tomcat, and again his eyes went over her, in a gaze totally devoid of the deference she was accustomed to.

So next morning Mick was more uneasy than ever; restless, devoured, with his hands restless in his trousers pockets.

These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army.

He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.

But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again.

At this signal, the little elephant, with a dexterity that was next to marvellous in so small an animal, whisked the chair round with Mr.

For some time there was no noise but the grating sound of the spades discharging their freight of mould and gravel.

Nothing has, as yet, turned up; and it may not surprise you, my dear Master Copperfield, so much as it would a stranger, to know that we are at present waiting for a remittance from London, to discharge our pecuniary obligations at this hotel.

Still in the same moment, I saw that the face disclosed, was the face of the other convict of long ago.

I am not in an official position, and there is no reason, so long as the ends of justice are served, why I should disclose all that I know.

A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions.

Though Eustacia could not eat without uncovering her face she could drink easily enough beneath her disguise.

So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers.

And Connie pulled on the disguise, then the long motoring coat, and she sat down, a goggling inhuman, unrecognizable creature.

Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.

At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.

The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.

The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be.

The great Frederick making war on the beautiful Archduchess, Napoleon refusing terms to the beautiful Queen of Prussia, were not more dead to difference of sex than the reddleman was, in his peculiar way, in planning the displacement of Eustacia.

Again her large bonnet (very disproportionate to the figure) went backwards and forwards, in her swaying of her little body to and fro; while a most gigantic bonnet rocked, in unison with it, upon the wall.

The mails were still disrupted, no one knew where the Confederates were or what the Yankees were up to.

I could not find anything in the nature of a distinct impression, but the grass was trodden down, and someone had undoubtedly passed.

Though I quite understood that the purpose of this announcement was to get rid of me, I have no distinct remembrance whether it pleased or frightened me.

Grimwig lifted up his head, and converting one of the hind legs of his chair into a pivot, described three distinct circles with the assistance of his stick and the table; sitting in it all the time.

No one except the doting father could see anything beautiful about her, but the neighbors were charitable enough to say that all ugly babies turned out pretty, eventually.

He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.

He was in dreadful earnest and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever happened I would always be true to him.

Hines he hurt my wrist dreadful pulling and tugging so, and I reckon he clean forgot I was in the world, he was so excited and panting.

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

Handle them never so lightly, and they fell to pieces with such ease that you might suspect them of having been flawed before.

I never could have believed it without experience, but as Joe and Biddy became more at their cheerful ease again, I became quite gloomy.

He concealed his fears from his daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though she, with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was ill at ease.

Clym, the eclipsed moonlight shines upon your face with a strange foreign colour, and shows its shape as if it were cut out in gold.

Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.

He had made the hut tidy, put the little table and chair near the fireplace, left a little pile of kindling and small logs, and put the tools and traps away as far as possible, effacing himself.

But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact.

She sighed as she carefully tied the ribbon about the packet, wondering for the thousandth time just what it was in Ashley that eluded her understanding.

As the man made no answer when I asked him what he did there, but eluded my touch in silence, I ran to the Lodge and urged the watchman to come quickly; telling him of the incident on the way back.

There was no boat off the point, nor any boat drawn up anywhere near it, nor were there any signs of the men having embarked there.

As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking.

It was a warm June morning, and the Latter Day Saints were as busy as the bees whose hive they have chosen for their emblem.

Well, this dead man had some Catholic emblem round his neck, and that, along with his colour, made me think he was from the South.

They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems.

In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.

When he did emerge, it was in a ceremonial manner, with an escort of six dogs who closely surrounded him and growled if anyone came too near.

I did detect a figure creeping along the inner fence of the park; but it was not my young mistress: on its emerging into the light, I recognised one of the grooms.

For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.

My dear Dora, unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us.

And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.

The boys were enchanted, as she had intended them to be, and they hastened to apologize for boring her.

I repair to the enchanted house, where there are lights, chattering, music, flowers, officers (I am sorry to see), and the eldest Miss Larkins, a blaze of beauty.

That they should be man and wife in good time, if the happiness of neither were endangered thereby, was the fancy in question.

At present I am ready to promise that the instant that I can communicate with you without endangering my own combinations, I shall do so.

The wind being as fierce as ever, we did not care to endanger the light in the lantern by rekindling the extinguished lamps on the staircase, but we examined the staircase from the bottom to the top and found no one there.

Palmer, on the contrary, who was strongly endowed by nature with a turn for being uniformly civil and happy, was hardly seated before her admiration of the parlour and every thing in it burst forth.

Tom was engrossed by the concerns of his theatre, and saw nothing that did not immediately relate to it.

For the past year, she had been so engrossed in her own woes, so bored by any mention of war, she did not know that from the minute the fighting first began, Atlanta had been transformed.

As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.