United States or Palestine ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Why, Babe, I just can't figure out what's got into you. I never heard you break out like this. Are you scared, honey, because we happen to be lower than " "No, no, darlin'; I ain't scared because we're low. I'm scared to get high again. It's the first run of real luck you've had in three years, Blutch. There was no hope of gettin' you out while things was breakin' good for you; but now "
"I hope so, dear," she replied; "for God is good." "And will he get us blankets, mammy?". "Yes, darlin', I hope so." "Me id rady he'd get us sometin' to ait fust, mammy; I'm starvin' wid hungry;" and the poor child began to cry for food. The disconsolate mother was now assailed by the clamorous outcries of nature's first want, that of food.
And she says: 'How old is the young lady, and what's her size, and what's her color? Darlin', ain't that dress the answer to what I told her?" "Yes," said Linda. "If an artist had been selecting a dress for me he would probably have chosen that one. But, old dear, it's not suitable for me. It's not the kind of dress that I intended to wear for years and years yet.
Connor seized the glossy ringlet from his mother's hand, and placed it at the moment next to the seat of his undying affection for the fair girl from whose ebon locks it had been taken. His mother then kissed Una again, and, rising, said "Now, my daughther, remimber I am your mother, an' obey me." "I will," said Una, attempting to repress her grief "I will; but " "Yes, darlin', you will.
The doctor stood for some moments after he had finished his examination, looking down upon the little white face, so wasted, so beautiful. Then he shook has head sorrowfully. "Ah, doctor, darlin'!" burst out Mrs. Carroll. "Don't say the wurrd! Don't say the wurrd!" At this Carroll lifted his head and enquired briefly, "Will he get better, doctor?" "He has a chance. He has a slight chance."
Miss Theodosia suddenly bubbled into low laughter. "She is going to be a plumber." "Evangeline a plumber?" "Yes, because she's got to be rich, she says. She's 'sick 'n' tired' of being poor, and you can make such darlin', roary, snappy fires in a tin pail! Plumberin' will be fun." He laughed a little, too, enjoyingly, but returned to his arguings. Said he: "Be a plumber, not marry one, you see.
Me husband was a licensed victualler in Harrow, and we kept our own wagonette. Many's the time I've driven it meself into London, to a stable in the Edgeware Road, where I left it to do me shopping. It was an elegant carriage, and a white horse not so unlike your own, only smaller." Janet handed her the tea. "Thank you, me darlin'," said the old woman. "I'm feeling better already.
I was near for-gettin'; sure, bad luck to the penny o' the ten guineas but I paid away." "Paid away! Is it my ten guineas?" "Your ten guineas, darlin'; an' right well I managed it. Didn't I secure Pat Hanratty's farm by it? Sam Appleton's uncle had it as good as taken; so, begad, I came down wid the ten guineas, by way of airles, an' now we have it.
This last stroke, darlin', has laid us at the door of both poverty and sickness, but blessed be the mother of heaven for it, they are all left wid us; and sure that's a blessin' we've to be thankful for glory be to God!"
"Belch, me darlin', if ye have th' belly-ache!" cried this tall man, and, without more warning, there was a tremendous flash and detonation, a mighty flying of the clear waters just under the bows of the foremost canoes of the Indians. There was hiss and sputter of the torches, an upward leap of canoe and savage, capsize and panic and fear, and the night screamed with many voices.
Word Of The Day