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What with poling, and shoving, and pulling at the rope, the nuggar was floated once more at last, and on they went again, and by-and-by the river widened, and the current was not so strong, and so long as they kept the rope pretty taut the boat came along without any very great exertion. "Have a pipe out of my baccy-box, just to show there's no malice?" said Grady to Tarrant.
By-and-by but this is not a frequent sight a Moslem swell ambles past on a barb, gorgeous in caparisons, the enormous peaked saddle held in its place by girths round the beast's breast and quarters, and covered with scarlet hammer-cloth.
After lunch grandfather said: "It will never do to go home without any fish at all." So by-and-by he went back to the pier and caught one while the twins played in the sand. He put it in the lunch-basket to carry home. Kat brought shells and pebbles to Kit, because he had to stay covered up in the sand, and Kit built a play dyke all around himself with them, and Kat dug a canal outside the dyke.
He was ashamed to return to the house, yet he must return; and by-and-by, reluctantly and doggedly, he set his face that way. The wind and rain had cooled his brow, but not his brain, and he was still in a fever of resentment and shame when his lagging feet brought him to the house. He passed it irresolutely once, unable to make up his mind to enter and face them.
If Ferdinand had been ever so much dead, and that marriage at St. Louis had been ever so good, still she'd been my sister-in-law." "Not a doubt about it," said Mr. Peacocke. "But still, under all the circumstances, she had better not see you." "Well, that's a queer beginning, anyway. But perhaps you'll come round by-and-by. She goes by Mrs. Peacocke?"
And yet and yet Babette saw that in his eye and look which made her more and more reluctant to confide in him. By-and-by he tried threats. She should leave the conciergerie, and find employment where she liked. Still silence.
The old woman gave them some bread and meat to eat, and then hid them away in the great empty meal-chest in the corner, and there they lay as still as mice. By-and-by in came the gang of thieves with a great noise and uproar, and down they sat to their supper.
Still he was not cowed, although the blows were the first which he had ever received, but bravely answered, "You may punish me if I don't obey you; but you ought not to beat me you are stronger than I." "I am here to command you, animal! my duty is just what I please to do; and 'vive la Liberté, l'Egalité." By-and-by personal suffering and violence had become only too common occurrences of his daily life.
It took me aback just now to see you standing there by the gate; and," said I more boldly, "it puzzles me yet how you came there and not to the front door, for you couldn't have expected to find me here in the garden at this time in the morning." "True, Harry; I did not." He paused for a moment, and went on "It is truth, lad, that I meant to knock at your front door, by-and-by, and ask for you.
Browning could not forbear a smile at her enthusiasm, but without answering her question, he said, "What do you intend to do until you are old enough?" Rosamond's countenance fell, and after tapping her foot upon the carpet awhile, she said, "Mrs. Peters will get me a place by-and-by, and I s'pose I'll have to be a milliner." "Do you wish to be one?"
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