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Wouldn't it be easier to let down the falls, sir, and run up the boat all standing with the poor fellows in her as they are?" "By George, the very thing, Fosset!" exclaimed the skipper, accepting the suggestion with alacrity. "It will save the poor fellows a lot of jolting, and be all the easier for us, as you say.
"And now, as I don't want to lose the whole of the seventy-five cents I've got to pay, suppose you call in that niece of yours, and let me have a talk with her. Perhaps I can get something interesting out of her." The captain left the room, but he did not move with alacrity. He found Olive with a book in a hammock at the back of the house.
About this time the dinner-bell rang, and I went down without much alacrity, though with a good appetite enough. . . . It was in the angle of my right eye, not my left, that the blackest purple was collected. But they both look like the very Devil. Half past five o'clock.
Sam approached with reluctance, and fell back with alacrity when the glittering steel was brandished towards his own breast. "Where's your pass, sirrah?" demanded Jim, with asperity. "Here, massa," said the chattel, presenting the same one which had already been examined. "Won't do," said Jim. "Can't come that game over this child.
Yes, I think that, deep within, he pities me." Her companion wondered. "For the state you've let yourself get into?" "For not being happy when I've so much to make me so." "You've everything," said Mrs. Assingham with alacrity. Yet she remained for an instant embarrassed as to a further advance. "I don't understand, however, how, if you've done nothing " An impatience from Maggie had checked her.
I warded several of his blows, which were dealt with too much thoughtless fury to be dangerous; but again and again called on him to stop, for a moment, and hear me. I felt I had been the cause of much mischief to the man; and had no alacrity to increase the wrong. My behaviour was not that of fear; and his companions at length got between us, and for a moment prevented the battle.
IT had been arranged that Pellerin, after the meeting of the Uplift Club, should join Bernald at his rooms and spend the night there, instead of returning to Portchester. The plan had been eagerly elaborated by the young man, but he had been unprepared for the alacrity with which his wonderful friend accepted it.
His wrinkled hands were clasped on his stick. His white head, shaded by his limp black hat, was bent down close to them. There was a slow, pondering expression on his face, but an excited gleam in his eye. Presently, he pointed backward toward a little unhewn log shanty that served as a barn, and rising with unwonted alacrity, he said to the boy, "Fotch me the old beastis!"
"How silly of you, Sid!" exclaimed his wife; "of course she doesn't want to go." "Indeed I do," protested Honora, rising with alacrity and following her host up the stairs. At the end of a hallway a nurse, who had been reading beside a lamp, got up smilingly and led the way on tiptoe into the nursery, turning on a shaded electric light. Honora bent over the crib.
I will now return home and prepare some necessary documents. As this is a criminal matter, I will also take care to have the attendance of an upright and clear-seeing magistrate, who will proceed with us not certainly later than ten o'clock to morrow." He then took his leave, with an air of much importance, and more alacrity than I could have expected from a man of his years.
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