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... DAVID , and putting a hand on his shoulder walks the astonished boy backward ... I. Ahiab , son of Alihab - he will be great in Judah what of him ? Or ... am David , the son of Jesse . ( saul is now the bewildered one . He looks around ...

... fallen in love with , and wanted to marry , this humble little girl . " Fallen in love with Janey ! " Mrs Midhurst cried . " Fallen in love with you , Janey ! " said Agnes Midhurst , with a little emphasis on the pronoun . He was not ...

... play refreshingly through his hair. Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle. Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground ...

... Tommy's distress of mind was so genuine and so keen that it had several hours ' start of his admiration of it ; and ... tale with disdain , and said she hated Miss Ailie for giving him the silly book , but he re- proved these unchristian ...

... story is a decidedly modern conception. It was in the first half of the last century that Edgar Allan Poe worked out the idea that the short story should create a single effect. In his story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," for example ...

... mere man , however , could ever have told which was the better side of Miss Abinger's face . It was a face to stir the conscience of a good man , and make unworthy men keep their distance , for it spoke first of purity , which can never ...

... anxiety about Gavin came back to me until I was like a man im- prisoned ... playing tricks with me , so that I heard Adam Dishart enter our home by the sea every time the school - house door shook ... one who has asked a question of life or ...