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Before the fire stood Annis, her blue eyes shining like stars, a round, red spot burning feverishly in each cheek, her lace ruff rising and falling distressfully with the heaving bosom within. The mandolin had fallen from her hands; the ruddy firelight lit up her slight figure and fair, disordered curls.
Mabyn distressfully; "and I am so afraid for Natalie! Natalie is so very dear to me. The situation is so unusual!" she wailed. Poor Garth was sadly perplexed and exasperated by all this. The discovery he anticipated was now apparently in retreat. "We are glad, anyway, to have had the pleasure of making your acquaintance," said Mrs. Mabyn with an air of finality.
And, slowly moving his lips with an effort, Yegor began to relate the life history of his neighbor. His eyes smiled. The mother saw that he was bantering her purposely. As she regarded his face, covered with a moist blueness, she thought distressfully that he was near to death.
"How much will you charge me to grind me five hundred bushels of grain for them?" "I'm sorry," said Strange. "The old man won't hear of it." "Will you let them starve?" cried Ambrose. "What can I do?" said Strange distressfully. "I'm not the head." "Grind it in spite of him," said Ambrose. "Humanity and prudence would both be on your side. You'll get their fur by it." "I think Mr.
And as she hung her head and grew more distressfully redder and redder, "You know what that means." "Indeed- indeed- I couldn't help- I never meant! Oh- " It was an exclamation indeed, for Uncle Clement's head appeared above the hammock, where he too had been dozing over his book, with the words "Halloo, young people, I'm here!"
"If he cares like he says he cares he'll tell me," she murmured. "I don't believe it's wolves. And of course it isn't what those fellows seemed to think. But where did he get the money for all that?" She sighed distressfully. "I hate to ask him; he'd think I didn't trust him, and I do. I do trust him!" There was the little head-devil of doubt, and she fought him fiercely. "I do! I do!"
Here, where the citizens once thronged about their business and their pleasure, only a few idlers were in view, a few peasants with carts, and a drove of bullocks just come in from the country. 'You would have me forget her? he said at length, in a voice distressfully subdued. 'I spoke only as I thought. 'And your thought condemned me despised me, Marcian? 'Not so.
Her heart throbbed distressfully; at the stir of wind-breath or any distant note of clamour she stopped, and held her breathing. No sounds came near. She toiled on, trying only to think that she was at the very spot where last night his arms had been round her. How long ago it seemed! She was full of vague terror, overmastered by the darkness, dreadfully alone.
She ... she ..." distressfully discovering van Hert's eyes still fixed upon her "said something about hoping the wedding would be postponed, and I said it was unlucky." For a moment the constraint was painful. Meryl had grown as white as the tablecloth, and Mr. Pym looked thoroughly worried. Diana, however, had quickly recovered herself, and was now the most composed of any.
Bicycles were not so common a woman's possession in Canada, or elsewhere, then. In fact, there were few roads in British Columbia fit to propel one on. An American friend had sent Miss Savine a wheel which, after a few journeys over a corduroy road, groaned most distressfully whenever she mounted it.
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