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Even the stout man clapped, and Rose could only laugh delightedly as she turned to look at Archie, who seemed to have let himself loose at last and was stamping with a dogged energy funny to see.
"Oh, dadda, isn't it beautiful?" exclaimed Janice, delightedly, as they rode down the hill to the bridge over Stony Creek. "What? Where?" demanded that worthy, looking about in all directions. "The fields, and the trees, and " "Can't ye keep your thoughts from gadding off on such nonsense, Jan?" cavilled her father, fretfully, his gouty foot putting him in anything but a sweet mood.
Practically she lathered his face and rubbed the lather into the stubble with brisk hands. He grunted ecstatically, lying back in the chair in solid comfort. He eyed her manipulation of the razor on the strop with approval. For the first time in many a morning he was shaved neatly and with dispatch. When Prudence came feebly into the room, he hailed her delightedly.
Oleander, delightedly, quite unconscious that his fair enslaver was playing into his hand. "We are sure to find solitude and coolness there." The conservatory was delightfully cool, after the African temperature of the ball-room. Alabaster lamps shed a pale sort of moonlight over the sleeping flowers, and splashing fountains, and marble goddesses.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you could, some." "You bet he will," called Phil Springer delightedly. "I'll have him delivering the goods before the season is half over." "Bah!" again muttered Hooker. "You're a fool, Springer."
He laughed delightedly. In puzzled wonder Morey and the two older men looked at him, and at Arcot who was grinning broadly now. "Well, I suppose it must be funny," Morey began, then hesitated. "Oh I see say, that is good!" He turned to his father. "I see now what he's been driving at. It's been right here under our noses all the time.
Henry, who had been out of sight ever since the arrival of the two men, had ambled into camp observed only by Emma Dean who hugged herself delightedly when she saw the bear's intention. A yell from Chet Ainsworth when he felt the hot breath of the beast on his neck, as Henry sniffed at it, brought every one, including Chet, to their feet.
Master Freake was now wringing my shackled hands delightedly, and a little, deft man, whom I knew on sight to be Dot Gibson, was searching his unresisting lordship's pockets for the key of the irons. A minute later he banged them on the floor and said, "And how do you find yourself, sir?" There's no more to be said about Brocton.
Betty paused in the act of putting on a shoe and held it poised in the air while she gazed at her friend incredulously. "Grace Ford, of all the " she almost stuttered. Then, as a thought flashed before her mind she laughed delightedly. "Can't you see them, Grace," she chuckled, putting on one shoe and picking up the other.
She had just come home from her work, and was on the point of preparing her supper. "No, Pelle, is that you?" she cried delightedly, "and so grand, too you look like a prince!" Pelle had to remain to supper. "I have really only come to thank you for all your friendliness and to say good-bye. To-morrow I go to Copenhagen." She looked at him earnestly. "And you are glad!"
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