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"Oh, charades are stupid!" Billy hated guessing. Peggy's pencil was going around in tiny circles. She was thinking very hard. Suddenly she sprang to her feet. "I know! Ken, let's write a play!" "A play!" cried the others. "Yes. I've got it all in my head, now. Barb will help us when she comes home.
"Free-range cattlemen!" said Higgins. "The same all over the world! A fence makes them see red. Barb wire is to 'em like a new steel trap to a wolf. Wonder if it was one of Garman's men?" "I don't know whether Garman's activities include cattle. What difference does it make? Our job is to put this fence up. The next move is up to them." "Here comes their first move!" said Higgins presently.
She carried a bow strong as the one of Ulysses, which no man could draw, and an arrow sharp as the sunbeam and armed with a barb; for a helmet, beside her treasure of golden hair, she wore one rose, set there with the art that conceals art, so that it was no longer a red rose, but one more bright perfection that had come to ripeness about the glowing maiden.
The Princess Hildegarde is as fine a woman as ever your Gretchen. Mr. Carmichael will agree to that," maliciously. Carmichael gave no sign that he understood; but there was no mistaking the prince regent's inference, however. The recipient of this compliment stubbornly refused to give the prince the satisfaction of seeing how neatly the barb had gone home. "But, Mr.
Dick loosed the last of them, and of this fearful shaft it was said that it slew three men, piercing through the body of one, the throat of the second and burying its barb in the skull of the third on the lowest step. Now Dick unstrung his bow, and thrust it into its case on his shoulder, for he was minded that they should go together at the last.
But white or black, every fish takes one fly or the other, and then comes the question is the fish that has swallowed the big gaudy lure so much worse or more foolish than that which has fallen to the delicate white moth with the same sharp barb in its tail? Do we not all need those outstretched Hands of Mercy which I saw in my dream? But there, there!
The lovely Countess was mounted on a fiery Spanish barb, given to her by De Gondomar. Forced into a union with a gouty and decrepit old husband, the Countess of Exeter might have pleaded this circumstance in extenuation of some of her follies.
She thought if I'd leave her she might drop asleep." He smiled contemptuously. "How long ago was that?" "About fifteen minutes." "It was an hour ago! Barb, you've got hold of another novel. Haven't you learned yet that you can't tell time by that sort of watch?" "Is mom-a awake?" asked the girl, starting from the mantel-piece. "Yes stop!"
Feeling as if it were all a dream from which he must awake the next moment, Frank threw himself lightly from his horse, handed the rein to the Sheikh, and then stood while the chief's barb was led up to him, striving successfully not even to glance at the leader; but taking up the reins he thrust a foot into one stirrup, and sprang up, fully expecting a repetition of the battle through which he had already passed.
She did not appear to have. "I hesitate," she faltered, "but not from any doubt of Frederick, to tell you just what I think lies at the bottom of the sudden change observable in him. I do not know of any other explanation. Do you?" At this direct question, breathed though it was by tender lips, and launched in ignorance of the barb which carried it to his heart, Mr.
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