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The old pastor's red face glowed redder, yet with pleasurable anticipation; he was a born matchmaker. But Ulrich the wheelwright shuffled in his chair uneasily. "A little longer," he pleaded. "Let me think it over. A man should not marry without first being sure he loves. Things might happen. It would not be fair to the maiden."
The light of happiness was still upon his face and made him look much younger than usual. His whole bearing, in its elasticity and buoyant courage, was full of anticipation. As he came up to them he said to Domini: "Do you remember chiding me?" "I!" she said. "For what?" Androvsky sat up and the expression of serenity passed away from his face. "For never galloping away into the sun."
His course and spirit, however, set her at rest in regard to his visits to Marian Vosburgh, and she felt that there was scarcely the slightest danger that he would compromise himself by serious attentions to the daughter of an obscure American official. Willard returned from his brief absence, and was surprised at his eager anticipation of another interview with Marian.
If I did, it was a paper on some subordinate affair. It was some years ago, and the details of the visit did not impress themselves upon my memory." "How did you obtain the letters of Nicholas Johnson and James Ramsey? I ask this, because they are not addressed to you." "I procured them of Sam Yates, in anticipation of the trial now in progress here.
But monsieur might feel very sure Madame de Sévénié would never forgive herself if the hospitality of the Château de Montalais failed at such a time. She would send servants to the car at once with lights, wraps, umbrellas.... There was no necessity for that. The remainder of the party had, it seemed, presumed upon her courtesy in anticipation, and was not far from the heels of its ambassador.
We could hear, as we hastened on, the hum of the West End of London; but we were bowling along, having little time to look about us, though some extra sandbags were turned to good account by making a bed of them at the bottom ends of the car, which we occupied in anticipation of a rough landing."
He could see the whole scene: the tiny cove, with the violet shadow of the cliff sleeping on the green water; the swell of the waves lazily lapping against the diving-board from which he had plunged half an hour before; he remembered the long swim out to the buoy; the exhilarated anticipation with which he had dressed and climbed the steep path to the hotel terrace.
In the presence of these proofs of maternal solicitude the morose, wrinkled countenance of the old sorceress wore a kind, almost tender expression, and the light of joyous anticipation beamed upon her young guest from her red-rimmed eyes. "I am to see them once more!" cried Tabus in an agitated tone. "The last and all three, all! If they But no; they will not set to work so near Pelusium. No, no!
"Ay, ay, sir," shouted the ready mate, who, in anticipation of the order, had manned the halyards, and stationed hands at the sheets and clewlines. "Let go the sheets! clew up lively! Settle away the halyards! Ready at the bunt-lines sharp work, boys! Aloft, and furl the topsail!" "Set the main-staysail!" shouted the captain.
In my late combat with the bear, I had the anticipation of a meal off my foe, should.
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