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"Alfaretta!" cried Madam Sturtevant, "what does this mean?" Something of the girl's panic had seized her, also, though she tried to hide her own agitation by sternness. "My suz, Alfy Brown! What ails ye? You nigh knocked me down, slammin' the door right in my face, that way!" exclaimed Susanna, who had, fortunately, stepped within before this strange thing had happened.
"How now, my friends, do you wait for the key? if anything ails the lock, trust to the strength of Yussuf." "Have you not heard that the caliph has ordered the baths to be shut for three days, on pain of impalement?" Yussuf started back with astonishment. "Now, may the graves of their fathers be eternally defiled those confounded Moussul Merchants! Their supposes always come to pass.
When the children were in bed and we were alone after tea, she climbed gravely up into my lap from the little cricket on which she had been sitting, and put her hands upon my shoulders. "You're sober, Fred, and pale. Something ails you, you know, and you are going to tell me all about it." Her pretty, mischievous face swam suddenly before my eyes.
"You'd think so, if you'd followed me," I replied. "Well, what in the d l ails your horse?" "Well, sir, he fell in the Chicago River," was my answer. Stepping to the animal, he rubbed his fingers over the rough, sticky hair, and then placing them to his nose, said: "Don't smell bad, looks's though he'd been dyed." "Well, I wish to he'd died before I ever saw him."
One night he was made king of the feast, at a drinking bout, and went forth, at the head of his companions, to pour forth their songs into the sweet Italian moonlight. A sudden hush fell upon him. "'What ails thee, Francis? cried the rest. 'Art thinking of a wife? "'Yes, he said. 'Of one more noble, more pure, than you can conceive, any of you." "What did he mean?"
What are you going to say to him, Jacqueline? I want you to say Yes, and I want you to say No." "Don't, Unity " "If you say Yes, you will have Greenwood and the most charming husband in the world, and be envied of every girl in the county; and if you say No, I'll have you still " "I shall say No." "What ails you, Jacqueline?
As he passed down the gallery Hazael, who was sitting on the balcony, cried to him; Joseph, he said, waited an hour and has gone; he had business to transact in Jericho. But, Jesus, what ails thee? It seems strange, Jesus answered, he should have gone away like this. But have I not told thee, Jesus, that he will return this evening to wish thee good-bye.
The Countess was still seated in her chair, and neither rose nor spoke when her daughter entered. "Mamma, Mr. Thwaite is hurt." "Well; what of it? Is it much that ails him?" "He is in pain. What has been done, mamma?" The Countess looked at her, striving to learn from the girl's face and manner what had been told and what concealed. "Did you strike him?" "Has he said that I struck him?"
I trust he is not running after the new doctrine of the hawkers and pedlars. His brother was inclined that way." "There be worse folk than they, your worship," protested Tib, but he did not pursue their defence, only adding, "but 'tis not that which ails young Stephen. I would it were!" he sighed to himself, inaudibly. "Well," said the good-natured alderman, "it may be he misseth his brother.
"Here's t'ye, gentlemen, no forgettin' the fair leddy in the stern-sheets." While he was drinking the gin the lieutenant turned to his men "Get out the keg, lads, from which that came, and refill the flask. Hold it well up in the moonlight, and see that ye don't spill a single drop, as you value your lives. Hey! my man, what ails you?
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