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Kate Sanders, singing softly, blithely, came tripping along the major's deserted veranda, her fresh young voice, glad, yet subdued, caroling the words of a dear old song that Parepa had made loved and famous full ten years before: "And as he lingered by her side, In spite of his comrade's warning The old, old story was told again At five o'clock in the morning."
For the second time that day Kay saw Don Mike's face light up with that insouciant boyish smile. Then he skipped blithely across the garden thrumming the guitar and singing: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord! At seven o'clock next morning, while Miguel Farrel was shaving, John Parker came to his door, knocked, and without further ado came into the room.
Out on the sea he saw the kayaks of his departing companions. "Good luck, Maisanguaq, have courage in the chase! Remember Annadoah awaits you all!" Annadoah called blithely and coquettishly after him.
And Nan laughed so blithely, it was a pleasure to hear her. "Where's Di?" asked John, seized with a most unmasculine curiosity all at once.
Most men of Jo's age were standing before their mirror of a Saturday night, whistling blithely and abstractedly while they discarded a blue polka-dot for a maroon tie, whipped off the maroon for a shot-silk, and at the last moment decided against the shot-silk in favor of a plain black-and-white, because she had once said she preferred quiet ties.
Jack, too, was telling himself what a peculiar state of affairs had come upon the stage here, with an ambush lying in wait before him, this man could step blithely along, swinging his aluminum bucket and softly warbling one of the most recent hits from a comic opera Jack had himself heard the song on the boards of a great metropolitan theatre in New York had even caught himself whistling the catchy air more than a few times since.
Most men of Jo's age were standing before their mirror of a Saturday night, whistling blithely and abstractedly while they discarded a blue polka-dot for a maroon tie, whipped off the maroon for a shot-silk and at the last moment decided against the shot-silk in favor of a plain black-and-white because she had once said she preferred quiet ties.
It had come, he now believed, solely from the attitude of the Captain and Jeff Morrill the engineer, and Sam Tonkin the deck-hand soon to become a mate and Bill Lawson, another deck-hand; all of whom had little children at home. Well, he had no little children at home. That settled the matter so far as he was concerned. Blithely he began to plan his dinner and select the theatre he should attend.
she blithely sang, then, hurrying to the gate, shaded her eyes with the shapely hand and gazed intently. 'Twas nearing eight, nearing breakfast-time. But some one was coming. Horrid! Captain Chester, of all men! Coming, of course, to see papa, and papa not yet down, and mamma had a headache and had decided not to come down at all, she would breakfast in her room.
Every great religious leader and every savage medicine man beating a tom-tom has had to, prove his pretensions to greatness by healing the sick so intensely practical is man and he has proved his divinity by curing the hysterics, so that they threw away their crutches, or jumped blithely out of bed, or used their arms, perhaps for the first time in years.
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