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But just then Philip Burton, telegraph operator and genial good friend of all three of the lads, bustled into the room, a sheaf of yellow telegrams in his hand. "What's all the excitement?" he asked, striding toward the typewriter just left by Jerry. "Why," explained Slim, "Joe's just done something that means something." "Impossible," said Mr.
Here three women were sitting at the table regaling themselves. Seeing the visitors, they exchanged glances and left off eating. "Well, did you get it?" one of them, apparently the "virago" herself, asked abruptly. "Yes, yes," muttered the old man. "Well, Boris, pray sit down. Everything is plain here, young man . . . we live in a simple way." He bustled about in an aimless way.
"Weel, I will gie ye the guid wish that the affair may go off exactly as ye are hoping." "Thanks, Major! You could hardly word the sentence more happily." They exchanged a laugh as the Mayor bustled up, rubicund, important, and with a Member of the Committee to introduce.
He bustled about the room a few moments, kissed his wife, shook hands with David and hastened away. After he had vanished, David and Pepeeta passed down the long corridor and out upon the balcony of the old Spencer House, to the place appointed for the interview of the judge.
I hoped to have got another maid; but well, Anna has lived so long alone now it is a little difficult to find any one she would live with happily. I want a girl, too, who would not require high wages. Now run along, dear. I hear Poppy calling to you," and with the same Miss Charlotte bustled away, and Esther was left alone.
The servants let him sleep on, and bustled about without noticing him; only an overseer pointed to him, and said laughing: "His companions went home no more sober than that one. He is a pretty boy, and pretty Chloes lover besides she will look for him in vain this morning." "And to-morrow too perhaps," answered another; "for if the fat king sees her, poor Damon will have seen the last of her."
This was carrying the matter too far, and I thought it had certainly undone us; for stopping short, with a start, in crossing the room, he turns and looks first at Dawson, then at me, with anything but a pleasant look in his eyes as finding his dignity hurt, to be thus bustled by a mere child.
Half a dozen officers were standing about the front door, and in another moment I was bustled into the conveyance provided and was being driven away from the death-haunted spot. I had heard the last whisper of those pines for many, many days. But not in my dreams; it ever came back at night, sinister, awesome, haunted with dead hopes and breathing of an ever doubtful future.
Brownleigh's foolishness in making so much of them; and then she bustled in to the old pine desk in the dining-room and produced the letter that had started Margaret off as soon as commencement was over. Gardley took the letter eagerly, as though it were something to connect him with Margaret, and read it through carefully to make sure just how matters stood. He had looked troubled when Mrs.
"An original character, apparently," he said. "He doesn't aim to let grass grow under his feet." Between two and three Britt bustled into Mendenhall's, making for the office. "Oh, I say!" he puffed, as Mendenhall rose. "Banked that check yet?" "Not yet," replied the other sedately. "It is our custom to send the day's checks for deposit just before three. Nothing wrong, I trust?"
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