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Bustling, motherly Mrs. Sterling greeted Bob and Joe with a smile, as they made known their errand. "So here are the young heroes that the paper has been making so much fuss about," she said mischievously, and Bob and Joe blushed to their ears. "Just wait a minute until I run up and see if Nellie is ready to receive you." "If it's too late, we can wait until another day," said Bob.
So we found a welcome in that quiet place, and soon the good franklin's wife came out, bustling and pitiful in her care for Alswythe and sorrow for her need to fly from her lost home, for it took but few words to explain what had befallen.
It was only fair to warn the important, bustling matron a trifle in advance of the rest of the world. Rachael had had a long night's sleep; she already began to feel deliciously young and free. She was to spend a few nights at the Havilands', and the next week supposedly go to the Princes' at Bar Harbor; really she planned to disappear for a time from her world.
To find herself in the midst of a bustling, vulgar crowd, by whom she was unknown, but not unnoticed, was new to Miss Warwick.
I'm little and bustling and Martha-like." Here Jean sighed, and put her fingers through a large hole in the toe of a stocking. "I'm only fit to keep house and darn and worry the boys about washing their ears.... Anyway, I'm glad I had on my Chinese coat." "Her gown should be of goodliness Well ribboned with renown, Purfilled with pleasure in ilk place, Furred with fine fashion.
The heat in this mere canyon path between cliffs of houses was terrible. Ned himself began to feel queerly. "Let's get out of this, Nellie," he said. "How would you like never to be able to get out of it?" she answered, as they turned towards the bustling street, opposite to the way they had previously come. "Who's that Mrs. Somerville?" he asked, not answering.
A Greek friend had come to see him upon business, he said, and as he could speak nothing but his own tongue, the services of an interpreter were indispensable. He gave me to understand that his house was some little distance off, in Kensington, and he seemed to be in a great hurry, bustling me rapidly into the cab when we had descended to the street.
The trimmer began to nod, to tilt, and then turned suddenly upsidedown, and remained motionless. "He's running the line off it," said Doll. As he spoke the trimmer gave one jerk and went under. Then it reappeared, awkwardly bustling out into the open. "Oh, hang it all! it's Sunday," said Doll, with a groan. "We can't be catching pike on a Sunday."
Gray was bustling about slamming windows, and the girls were bringing in the red-cushioned hammocks and piazza, chairs, but the first great drops began to fall before they had finished, and the wind, seldom roused in the quiet valley, was blowing violently; Edith, stopping too long for a last pillow and a precious book, was drenched to the skin in an instant; the house was pitch dark before there was time to grope for lights, but was almost immediately illumined by a brilliant flash of lightning, followed by a loud report.
Philip sat still, almost as if he had no part in the cries of welcome, the bustling care, the loud directions that cut the air around him, and pierced his nerves through and through. But one in authority gave the order; and Philip, disciplined to obedience, rose to find his knapsack and leave the ship.
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