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She had been ill for two days after her unhappy experience. "What on earth do you mean, Mr. Hamlin?" inquired Grace Carter anxiously, turning to their host. The other girls smiled, thinking Mr. Hamlin was joking, he had been in such different spirits since Harriet's return home. "I mean what I say," Mr. Hamlin returned gravely.
The following is his statement of what followed, in his own language. "Protecting myself from the intense heat as well as I could by taking the mattress from the bed and erecting it as a bulwark before the window, with only enough space reserved on the top so as to look out, I anxiously observed the animals in the opposite room.
There are lots of good-looking people who are not beautiful at all, because they have no atmosphere: and you see other people, who are irregular, and quite plain even, and yet you come away feeling that they are perfectly beautiful." Mrs. Rangeley's own beauty was a little irregular. She looked anxiously round, and caught Wetmore in a smile.
Tell me how far you are prepared to go?" "You think I shall have to pay a great deal of money, then?" she asked, anxiously. "That depends entirely," he answered, "upon what you call a great deal of money." "I might manage two hundred pounds," she said, doubtfully. He smiled. "I am afraid," he said, "that Messrs. Jacobson & Co., or whatever their name is, will expect more than that."
"Give me some news of my wife," asked Monsieur de Lamotte anxiously. "She has never been better. Your son is also to perfect health." "But why are you alone? Why does not Marie accompany you? It is ten weeks since she went to Paris." "She has not yet quite finished the business with which you entrusted her.
'When the detective cove comes, an' I've told him 'bout somethin'. 'Somethin' good for us, Dick? asked Harry anxiously. Dick nodded his head slowly several times. 'Well, if this don't lick cock-fighting. Have you told your mother? 'No, said Dick. 'Nothing about this either? How's that? 'Oh, said Dick with a man's superiority, 'she wouldn't understand.
One generation after another has depended upon its young to equip it with gaiety and enthusiasm, to persuade it that living is a pleasure, until men everywhere have anxiously provided channels through which this wine of life might flow, and be preserved for their delight.
There came a moment when the water from the lake ceased to enter the boat, although the rain still drenched them. The darkness lightened somewhat and Henry looked anxiously about them. He was trying to reckon in what direction they had come, but there was nothing that would enable him to tell. He saw nothing but the waste of waters.
Indeed, from some casual and broken hints of Benington, especially in the latter part of his life, I had long since gathered this conjecture....... Something, thought I, may be derived from my acquaintance with her husband favourable to my views. I anxiously waited for an opportunity of acquainting Ludloe with my resolution.
Anxiously awaiting some word from Manila were the people of the United States, and it was as if everything else was relegated to the background until information could be had regarding that American fleet which sailed from Mirs Bay, in the China Sea, on the afternoon of April 27th. May 1. “Manila, May 1.—The squadron arrived at Manila at daybreak this morning.
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