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The bell on the engine sent out its warning note, as they wheeled the machine from the barn. The reel clicked as the long rope was unwound. "Come on!" cried Bert, as he took his place at the head of the line. "That's the way to run her out!" exclaimed the stenographer admiringly, as the boys swept past him. "I'll see you again!"
Agnes was a fair, slim schoolgirl, as tall as her mother, with a sweet face and a promise of peach blossom prettiness in the years to come. The arrival of a summer boarder was a great event in her quiet life. "Ain't she pretty?" whispered Mrs. Bentley admiringly, as the girl came slowly up the green slope before the house. "I do hope she's nice.
All along the arcade people were smiling in greeting, the men lifting their hats. Two cowboys in high-heeled boots and "chaps" paused in passing. "That new hawss of yours is sure some hawss, Miss Barbara," said one admiringly, sombrero in hand. The girl smiled and Holmes saw the flash of her perfect teeth. "Oh, he'll do, Bob, when I've worked him down a little."
There he met Neuberg, and they went together to Rolandseck, to the village of Hunef among the Sieben-Gebirge, and then on to Coblenz. After a detour to Ems, which Carlyle, comminating the gaming-tables, compared to Matlock, and making a pilgrimage to Nassau as the birthplace of William the Silent, they rejoined the Rhine and sailed admiringly up the finest reach of the river.
All the other ladies were losers. With a raging movement Rose Mignon had snapped her sunshade, and Caroline Hequet and Clarisse and Simonne nay, Lucy Stewart herself, despite the presence of her son were swearing low in their exasperation at that great wench's luck, while the Tricon, who had made the sign of the cross at both start and finish, straightened up her tall form above them, went into an ecstasy over her intuition and damned Nana admiringly as became an experienced matron.
Their camp-fires blazed from every hill-top. "Your regiment seems to have turned out to a man!" exclaimed Ford admiringly. "MY regiment!" snorted the officer. "You've passed through five regiments already, and there are as many more in the dark places. They're everywhere!" he cried jubilantly. "And I thought they were only where you see the camp-fires," exclaimed Ford.
Wunpost was insistent upon this and as they prepared to start he accepted it as payment in full. "That's my idea of money!" he exclaimed admiringly as he smoothed the silken note across his knee. "A thousand dollar bill, and you could hide it inside your ear say, wait till I pull that in Los!
"It's a nice room, isn't it?" asked Kitty when there had passed from Mona Crozier's eyes the glaze or mist not of tears, but stupefaction which had followed her inspection of the walls, the bureau, the table, and the desk. "Most comfortable, and so very clean quite spotless," the wife answered admiringly, and yet drearily.
"Of course, you must!" he agreed, and bent quickly to the task of clearing her violet bed of entangled vines. In ten minutes his strong hand had done the work of an hour for her slender fingers. "How swiftly and beautifully you work, Ned!" she exclaimed as he rose with face flushed and gazed a moment admiringly on the witchery of her exquisite figure.
"I'll have to work like a beavah this next week to catch up. I stah'ted out to have perfect repoah'ts, and I feel that I must stick to it, as Ederyn did when he heard the king's call. It is an obligation that I must meet. I must keep tryst or die." Gay looked at her admiringly. "I knew you were like that," she exclaimed. "If there is anything I envy it is strength of character."
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