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Mainwaring's desk for us and take out the will that was deposited there yesterday?" Ralph Mainwaring started. "The will? You surely do not think " "I think it might be safer in our own possession," said the attorney, with a peculiar smile. "And right you are!" added Mr. Thornton, approvingly. "I wonder you had not thought of that yourself, Mainwaring."
I came up to within eight miles of this house with a laughing, holiday-making rout of twelve natives, who rode madly along the narrow forest trail at full gallop, up and down the hills, through mire and over stones, leaping over the trunks of prostrate trees, and stooping under branches with loud laughter, challenging me to reckless races over difficult ground, and when they found that the wahine haole was not to be thrown from her horse they patted me approvingly, and crowned me with leis of maile.
"I am all right, doctor. I had a knock on the head which a day or two will put right; but I fear Bill is very seriously hurt." The doctor at once set to to examine the bandages. "You have done them up very well," he said approvingly; "but the blood is still oozing from them. I must dress them afresh; get me plenty of hot water, Polly, I have brought a sponge with me.
Before they had time to ring the bell a stout, middle-aged, motherly-looking woman opened the door and smiled down at them approvingly. "Well, well," she said, holding the door wide for them, "walk right in, young ladies, and make yourselves at home." "We expected you almost an hour sooner," she added, as the girls followed her into a big, cheerful front room.
He could bear the silence no longer, and cursing himself for his weakness spoke first, though he had promised himself not to do so on any account. "I haven't lost a moment's time," he began in a hoarse, provoking tone; and then the faculty of speech seemed to leave him and enter the body of Councillor Mikulin, who chimed in approvingly "Very proper. Very proper. Though as a matter of fact...."
As old Harmar concluded these remarks, the old men standing near the bell nodded approvingly, and some echoed, "Them was great times!" in a tone which indicated that memory was endeavoring to conjure back the time of which they spoke. They then slowly turned to descend. Lafayette had preceded them with his few friends.
"Colonel," exclaimed Captain Beaudoin, in his incisive voice, not waiting for his superior to give an opinion, "it will best to shoot half a dozen of those wretches." And the lieutenant nodded his head approvingly. But the colonel's despondent look expressed his powerlessness. "There are too many of them. Nearly seven hundred! how are we to go to work, whom are we to select?
He nodded approvingly as he noted that Joe had not been without taste; for the restaurant keeper had even thought of flowers and the best that the Settlement could provide, a flaming red snowplant, stood in the centre of the table in a glass bowl of clean white snow.
Pearson, as if you were going to lend us a hand with the trade; then if there is a shindy the four of us will be able to make a hard fight of it anyhow.’ “He did as I told him, and the second officer nodded to me approvingly.
Then he learned, with manifold puffing and much haggling, to saw wood quite decently, and to swing an axe almost as big as himself in wood splitting; and he ran of errands, and did business with an air of bustling importance that was edifying to see; he knew the prices of lard, butter, and dried apples, as well as any man about, and, as the store-keeper approvingly told him, was a smart chap at a bargain.
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