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He had learned the funny marks that meant his name and hers in shorthand and had watched with inner satisfaction her efforts to learn how to fry canned corn in bacon grease, and to mix sour-dough biscuits that were neither yellow with too much soda nor distressfully "soggy" with too little, and had sat a whole, blissful afternoon in his shirtsleeves, while Mary bent her blond pompadour domestically over his coat, sewing in the sleeve-linings that are prone to come loose and torment a man.
"Well," resumed the Contessina, "we will fix an appointment at once; you shall come with us to the Quartiere dei Prati Dario will take us there." At this the Prince, who had listened to the priest with an air of stupefaction, unable to understand the simile of the tree and its roots, began to protest distressfully, "No, no, cousin, take Monsieur l'Abbe for a stroll there if it amuses you.
Slim, she says you've got to be Santy and come down the stovepipe and give the kids fits and popcorn strung on a string. She says you've got the figure." Weary splashed into the wash basin like a startled muskrat. The Happy Family looked at one another distressfully. "He's fifteen pounds fatter'n I be." "Go tell her yourself," said Weary, appeased.
You know you were speeding like a two-year-old on the home stretch." But Ri-Ri refused to shoulder all that blame. "It might have been before the storm while we were lingering so," she urged distressfully. "You know that for so long we had heard nothing we ought to go back quickly very quickly and find that crossing." Johnny did not look back.
The Syrian shook his head doubtfully and gave vent to a long-drawn whistle, and Perpetua clasped her hands exclaiming distressfully: "Did I not say so? She takes the fire lighted by shepherds at night to warm their hands for the rising sun the rattle of chariots for the thunders of the Almighty! Why, how many thousands have called themselves Paulus!
This idea pleased him very well; it satisfied his notions of integrity and fair dealing and also his thrifty soul, which found trying the otherwise unavoidable duty of paying a long price for what had been freely given. From this Joost could not move him, so there was nothing for him to do but write distressfully to Julia and explain and apologise.
"I had mal de mer when I was on the steamer," the child said, in her pretty, painstaking English she spoke French habitually. "I do not like to have it on the land. The gentleman in there," she pointed to the room beyond where Gaspard was again distressfully sleeping the sleep of the spent after a period of the most profound physical agitation, "he does not like to have it, too, I mean either."
Motionless and hesitating in presence of the opening expanse, Pierre distressfully pondered as to whither he should go now that all which he had so passionately sought to achieve since the morning had suddenly crumbled away. Was he still bound for the Duvillard mansion in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy? He no longer knew. Then the exasperating remembrance, with its cruel irony, returned to him.
He awoke at daylight, found himself fully clothed and with a craving for whisky which he knew of old, and tried to remember just what had occurred the night before; when he could not recall anything very distinctly, he felt the first twinge of fear that he had known for years. "Lordy me! I wonder what kinda fool I made of myself, anyway!" he thought distressfully.
Louise did not hear me as I drove up, the wind was moaning so distressfully among the dead plum bushes she did not know that I was on the place until I entered the room where she sat at the bedside of her husband. She jumped up with a cry and " "Margaret, please don't." "I must tell you, John. I will tell you.
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