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She was entirely addressed, in a concrete way, to the abstract problems of social progress and hygiene; and, under thirty, the animating spirit, as well as financial support, of an incredible number of Settlements and allied undertakings. She spoke crisply before civic and other clubs; even, in the interest of suffrage, addressing nondescript audiences from a box on the street.
With eyes ever-watchful for sign of a trick or a trap in the apparently deserted laboratory, he quickly unbuckled the bands that held Leithgow to the operating table. Friday lifted the scientist to the floor, where he stretched weakly. The adventurer smiled faintly, then his eyes went cold and serious. Crisply he said: "We came, yes but now I think we're trapped.
They reached and passed the spot where she and Scott had turned back on their first walk together. The snow crunched crisply underfoot. The ascent was becoming more and more acute. Dinah was panting. Light as she was, with all the activity of youth in her veins, she found it hard to keep up, for Isabel was pressing, pressing hard.
"Yes," signaled back the "Farnum's" flags. "Dive at will, but keep to a due east or west course. Be careful to avoid collision with the sister craft," came the next order from the parent boat. "All below!" ordered Benson, crisply. Ensign Trahern waited until the last of the cadets had filed below, then followed them.
For the moment her air became distrait, but she quickly regained her poise, as the lawyer, who had dropped back into his chair behind the desk, went on speaking. His tone now was crisply business-like. "I sent your cousin, Miss Agnes Lynch, the release which she is to sign," he explained, "when she gets that money from General Hastings. I wish you'd look it over, when you have time to spare.
"I am," declared the skipper eagerly. "Then explain it to the court," Reade continued. "If you can prove to a judge and a jury that you're an honest man, and always have been one, you may get off on the charge that will be made against you." "Then you don't believe me?" asked the skipper anxiously. "It isn't for me to say," Tom replied crisply. "It's a job for a judge and a jury."
Penrod is getting to be a VERY nervous boy, and he makes noises because he can't help it. He works part of his face, too, sometimes, so much that I've been afraid it would interfere with his looks." "Interfere with his what?" For the moment, Mr. Schofield seemed to be dazed. "When he's himself," she returned crisply, "he's quite a handsome boy." "He is?" "Handsomer than the average, anyhow," Mrs.
A fine white Holland-linen shirt peeped through his jerkin at the throat, with a broad lace collar; and his short hair curled crisply all over his head. He had a little pointed beard, and the ends of his mustache were twisted so that they stood up fiercely on either side of his sharp nose.
"Now, Miss Ames," Stone began, "in Mrs, Embury's presence, I'll ask you " "You won't ask me anything, sir," she returned crisply. "I'm going out. I've a very important errand to do." "Oh, I don't know about that," Elliott said; "it's almost six o'clock, Aunt Abby. Where are you going?" "I've got an errand a very important errand an appointment, in fact. I must go don't you dare oppose me, Mason.
Patterson, so somberly that Miss Rosetta instantly felt that he was the bearer of bad news. Usually Mr. Patterson's face was as broad and beaming as a harvest moon. Now his expression was very melancholy and his voice positively sepulchral. "Good morning," returned Miss Rosetta, crisply and cheerfully. She, at any rate, would not go into eclipse until she knew the reason therefor.
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