In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles.

Of course, the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself.

They tried to hold him up against the wall but he sat down in a puddle of water.

“Oh, Daddy, can’t you give her something to make her stop screaming?” asked Nick.

It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.

Finally the officer told the soldiers it was no good trying to make him stand up.

You see, Nick, babies are supposed to be born head first but sometimes they’re not.

Too heavy to lift and you could shoot through it and they would have to climb over it.

We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone, and we had to fall back.

It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

“If you see Nick, dear, will you tell him his mother wants to see him?” his wife said.

I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.

Ag would not come home until he had a good job and could come to New York to meet her.

After the armistice they agreed he should go home to get a job so they might be married.

Later when he started to operate Uncle George and three Indian men held the woman still.

He was very shy and quite young and the train men passed him on from one crew to another.

He had to polish it from morning till night, until finally it began to affect his nose⁠—

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.

“We’ve got to beat them down,” whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

He thanked me very much, but his mind was already looking forward to walking over the pass.

“It belongs to White and McNally,” he said, standing up and brushing off his trousers knees.

“Don’t look at me,” Daisy retorted, “I’ve been trying to get you to New York all afternoon.”

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

The others went on ahead of him down to the lake shore where the logs were buried in the sand.

The revolutionary committee, he told me, would not allow him to go outside the palace grounds.

Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film.

His father picked the baby up and slapped it to make it breathe and handed it to the old woman.

He talked about the shop to A. J. Smith and about the Republican Party and about James G. Blaine.

Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.

On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once.

Then the hand that felt so big in her lap went away and was on her leg and started to move up it.

The men had moved off up the road to sit in the dark and smoke out of range of the noise she made.

Liz was sitting in the kitchen next to the stove pretending to read a book and thinking about Jim.

It was just beginning to be daylight when they walked along the logging road back toward the lake.

—And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization⁠—oh, science and art, and all that.

My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations.

Nick’s father ordered some water to be put on the stove, and while it was heating he spoke to Nick.

It was understood he would not drink, and he did not want to see his friends or anyone in the States.

Liz was terribly frightened, no one had ever touched her, but she thought, “He’s come to me finally.”

She couldn’t sleep well from thinking about him but she discovered it was fun to think about him too.

I went back to the hotel and Maera was on the balcony looking out to see if I’d be bringing him back.

After he got on crutches he used to take the temperatures so Ag would not have to get up from the bed.

From Smith’s back door you could look out across the woods that ran down to the lake and across the bay.

It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.

Fifteen came in a bunch to the front and he sorted them by the dates and read them all straight through.

She was very frightened and didn’t know how he was going to go about things but she snuggled close to him.

They sunk the ends of their cant-hooks into one of the logs and swung against it to loosen it in the sand.

“If you think the logs are stolen, leave them alone and take your tools back to the camp,” the doctor said.

“We ought to plan something,” yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.

He reported at Bologna, and I took him with me up into the Romagna where it was necessary I go to see a man.