United States or Falkland Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Our fussy old 'granny' sits out on deck, rolling and pitching with the boat's motion, wondering what ails that chap who never talks to anybody. "From now on I believe in human transfiguration.
Then the Lady Threlkeld came to him, and making him a sign not to rise, said aloud, 'Good Gaffer, let me see what ails thy leg. Then kneeling down and busying herself with the bandages, she looked up piteously in his face, with the partly breathed inquiry, 'My son?
Joceline looked with an eye of agony at the divine, as if entreating him to interfere in his behalf; but just as he was about to speak, a most melancholy howling arose at the hall-door, and a dog was heard scratching for admittance. "What ails Bevis next?" said the old knight. "I think this must be All-Fools-day, and that every thing around me is going mad!"
Why do ye fancy any thing ails me?" Alas! it was no fancy. Ellen saw too plainly, that something was going wrong: but as her husband persisted in silence, she could not tell how to assist or comfort him. Mrs. Dolly in the mean time was going on spending her money in junketing.
I know I was losing colour, and sinking in strength, day by day; yet very gradually; so that my governess never noticed it. My aunt sometimes on her return from an absence that had been longer than common, looked at me uneasily. "Miss Pinshon, what ails that child?" she would ask. My governess said, "nothing." Miss Pinshon was the most immovable person, I think, I have ever known.
"He could buy hay," Thurston persisted. "Buy hay for fifty thousand cattle? Where would he get it? Say, Bud, I guess yuh don't realize that's some cattle. All ails you is, yuh don't savvy the size uh the thing. I'll bet yuh there won't be less than three hundred thousand head cross this river before spring." "Some of them belong in Canada you said so yourself."
Her state of mind had formerly been the female complement of his, but the sense of possession swerved her more easily. "What on earth ails you, Henry Whitman?" she said. "You look awful down-in-the-mouth. Only to think of our having enough to be comfortable for life. I should think you'd be real thankful and pleased."
Sit up and raise thy head and let me know what has happened to thee to-day, for thy face tells me a tale. 'Spare me this talk, replied I. But she wept and said, 'Meseems thou art tired of me, for I see that thou art contrary to thy wont. But I was silent, and she continued to talk to me, though I made her no answer, till nightfall, when she brought me food: but I refused it, fearing to let her see me eat with my left hand, and said to her, 'I do not care to eat at present. Quoth she 'Tell me what has befallen thee to-day and what ails thee, that thou art troubled and broken in heart and spirit. 'Presently, replied I; 'I will tell thee at my leisure. Then she brought me wine, saying, 'Take it for it will dispel thy care: thou must indeed drink and tell me what is thy matter with thee. 'Must I tell thee? said I; and she answered, 'Yes. Then said I, 'If it must be so, give me to drink with thine own hand. So she filled and drank then filled again and gave me the cup.
Whatever ails you!" she exclaimed when she could speak for astonishment, and to her own surprise her arm enclosed the sobbing girl in a warm embrace while with the other hand she reached to close the door. "Come right in to my kitchen and set in the big chair by the cat and let me give you a cup o' tea. Then you can tell Mis' Brownleigh what's troublin' you. She'll know how to talk to you.
What benefit is steam or telegraph to the moldering mummies of the catacombs? I want to know what good the millennium will do you and me when our dust is mingled with mother earth, in some silent necropolis?" "Oh, Beulah, what ails you to-day? You look so gloomy and wretched. It seems to me you have changed sadly of late.
Word Of The Day