United States or United States Virgin Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was a novel predicament in which they found themselves, near midnight, in a thunderstorm, with a young girl on the ground unable to walk, and neither of them knowing what to do. Howard said it was a deuced shame, and Jack told her not to cry. Sam was sure to come with a lantern soon, and they'd see what was the matter.
"Well," I said, sneering, "and I suppose you thought Case 'very pretty' and 'liked too much'?" "Now you talk silly," said she. "White man, he come here, I marry him all-e-same Kanaka; very well, then he marry me all-e-same white woman. Suppose he no marry, he go 'way, woman he stop. All-e-same thief, empty hand, Tonga-heart no can love! Now you come marry me.
Since he has been unable to read or do anything at all a wonderful change has come over his health, spirits, and temper, all for the better.... I wish you could see him with his eye tied up and singing away like mad; truly like mad, as there is neither time nor method in it, only a large voice.
At these words she pulled a handsome purse from her pocket, in which many guineas chinked, saying, with an air of indignation, "That she was not come thither on account of poverty."
The horses know that they are near home, and prick up their ears, and go briskly onward. Scarcely a quarter of a mile is gone before the buildings of the "lower plantation" come into view, a row of cabins built irregularly upon the highest points straggle along the river banks.
The edicts of each succeeding set of magistrates have, like those of Goneril and Regan, diminished this venerable band with the similar question, "What need we five-and-twenty? ten? or five?" And it is now nearly come to, "What need one?"
There's a fresh commando of quite five hundred men coming up yonder under the sun, and before dark we shall be regularly ringed round." "Well, let them come, sir," said Denham bitterly; "they can't all hit at us at once. What you said was right." "What I said was right?" replied the Colonel, staring. "Why, what did I say?"
Sophie answered, "Mother, I was prayed for at the revival meeting Friday night and I do not need my glasses." Her mother said, "Nonsense, come and get your glasses." But Sophie ran away to school! That forenoon the teacher asked Sophie to read, and when she got up she said, "Sophie, haven't you your glasses with you?" A number of years later I met Sophie with her little girl.
The vitality of youth is a fountain springing up from the deeps out of sight, when, a moment before, we had measured the drops oozing out from the sands, and thought that the well was exhausted." "Come with me, come. I told you of another sufferer yonder. I want your opinion of his case. But can you be spared a few minutes from Lilian's side?" "Yes; I left her asleep.
'It is I, Virginia. I have come this evening instead of to-morrow. Please let me come in. 'Alice? You can't I'll come wait downstairs. She was still able to understand the situation, and able, she thought, to speak coherently, to disguise her condition. The things on the table must be put out of sight. In trying to do this, she upset her glass and knocked the empty bottle on to the floor.
Word Of The Day