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"I wish you would," the woman said, anxiously. "There he is now in the front-door. I'll slip out the side way; he mought suspicion I was talkin' about him." A moment after her departure Johnny Cartwright came back to the desk. "Jim said Ma was here," he said, glancing around the room. "She was, Johnny, boy," Henley said, patronizingly, "but she went home. Ah, ha!

As she entered she saw him standing in front of a tall mahogany bookcase, the bottom drawer of which was open and filled with papers. He held one in his hand, but as he glanced up and saw her he replaced it and closed the drawer without speaking. His face was very white, and she asked him anxiously if he was tired. "A little," he answered, "but not too tired for some reading."

But ah, Louisa, how different are the views of this worthy, this heavenly-gifted son! He is anxiously studious to discover how he may apply the wealth that may revert to him most to benefit that society from which it first sprang. The best application of riches is one of our frequent themes; because it will be one of our first duties.

And they both began to run anxiously to every part whence they could command a view to any distance. They could not see him anywhere, and met with blank faces at the bower. Then Helen made a discovery.

"Oh, yes, of course!" replied Anne, anxiously turning to Barbara. Eleanor took the initiative of going toward the door. "I never saw such a darling bungalow! I just love everything spread out on the ground floor. No stairs and no elevators Oh, how nice!" "It is a change from your brown-stone mansions, isn't it?" replied Mrs. Brewster, smiling at the concerned face.

'Could I but be certain, she had then said, 'that I should ever return, and that Valancourt would still live for me I should go in peace! Now, that futurity, so anxiously anticipated, was arrived, she was returned but what a dreary blank appeared! Valancourt no longer lived for her!

Will you be so kind as to take me to your father? And do you think he will see me?" asked the Happy Hunter anxiously. Princess Tayotama listened to this long story, and then said: "Not only is it easy for you to see my father, but he will be much pleased to meet you.

"Mine and Rose's," the faithful May made the amendment. "Of course Rose must agree to any name we think of, or it cannot stand. Perhaps she would like to choose the name as she is away. Don't you think it ought to be put in her power that she ought to have the compliment?" suggested May quite seriously and anxiously. "I shall write to her this very minute."

When she had left home, France and England were only too closely connected, but now they were at daggers drawn, and probably would be so for many years, and the Revolution had come so suddenly that Madame de Bellaise had not been able to make arrangements for her niece's return home, and Noemi was anxiously waiting for an opportunity of rejoining her parents. The present plan was this.

She liked him. Perhaps he'd find you a corner somewhere out o' the way." "If it was out of the way and no one wanted it, no one could mind my having it, could they?" Mary said anxiously. "There wouldn't be no reason," answered Martha. "You wouldn't do no harm."