1 By this time the dental instruments were ready.
2 Tom was panting with his exertions by this time.
3 Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.
4 So he played with him every time he got a chance.
5 However, this time he was really interested for a little while.
6 There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it.
7 Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
8 This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope.
9 The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.
10 By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill.
11 There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
12 He then held a position at the gate for some time, daring the enemy to come outside, but the enemy only made faces at him through the window and declined.
13 She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with.
14 Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger.
15 He kept up this grotesque foolishness for some time; but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside and saw that the little girl was wending her way toward the house.
16 He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.
17 He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done.
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