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About noon, just as we were thinking rather dispiritedly of knocking off work for a lunch which in our early morning eagerness we had forgotten to bring Johnny turned up a shovelful whose lower third consisted of the pulverized bluish clay. We promptly forgot both lunch and our own weariness. "Hey!" shouted our friend, scrambling from his own claim. "Easy with the rocks!
Every nerve in the girl's body twitched with resentment and her spirit flared forth. She shielded herself behind the one flimsy subterfuge that Glenn could never understand or tolerate. "A kiss you mean. What's a kiss? You call that a scuffle?" Theodora, who was washing the tea dishes while Priscilla wiped them, took her usual course and began to cry dispiritedly and forlornly.
She was just a little afraid of his self confidence, and of this tall nobleman's habit of getting what he wanted, in the end: but she dispiritedly felt that Pevensey had failed her.
It's so hard to think up what to give, and after I 've thought it up and bought it, I 'm just sure I ought to have got the other thing." "But you should have some system about it." "Oh, I had a list," she replied dispiritedly. "But I'm so tired." Jasper Hawkins suddenly squared his shoulders. "How many names have you left now to buy presents for?" he demanded briskly.
When she went into the dining-room she was very sober. Mr. Oliver was there; he had taken one of his men to a hospital, with a burned arm, too late in the afternoon to make a return to the foundry worth while. "Harkee, Susan wench!" said he, "do 'ee smell asparagus?" "Aye. It'll be asparagus, Gaffer," said Susan dispiritedly, dropping into her chair. "And I nearly got my dinner out to-night!"
'Telefoam 'em at the bank to stop payment. It will take him ten minutes to run up from the wharf. Let him think you're right behind him. He's got to go to the bank, says Butts. 'He can't telefoam 'em to pay the check." The Cap'n's hand dropped dispiritedly from his clutch at his pocket. "I knowed something would stop me," he mourned. "The whole plot is a hoodoo.
George, after ten years' service, was brutally dismissed, and refusing to accept dismissal from his hands, appealed to his master. The innkeeper confirmed it, and with lack-lustre eyes fenced feebly when his daughter, regardless of Gunn's presence, indignantly appealed to him. "The man was rude to my friend, my dear," he said dispiritedly "If he was rude, it was because Mr.
The two mares fed dispiritedly at the lowest corner of the field, their hair rough with exposure to the winter winds and the storms, their ribs showing. With all the hay he had put up, Ward might at least keep his horses in better shape, Billy Louise censured, as she passed them by.
"I can understand that," Olga spoke with a curious kind of patience. "But, believe it or not as you will, I was working for quite other ends. And I've failed," she added dispiritedly. With the opening of the autumn season and the ensuing rebirth of musical and theatrical life, London received an unexpected shock.
He'd keep on coming between us, whether we meant him to or not," she said dispiritedly. "That's a cinch," Rowdy muttered, thinking of Harry's trouble-breeding talents. "Then there's no more to be said. Until you and Harry settle your difficulties amicably, or I am convinced that he's in the wrong, we'll just be friends, Mr. Vaughan. Good afternoon."
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