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"I wish those men would stop talking," murmured Laura, searching the darkness distressfully, for between the strains of the music she had heard the words: " Clearing House balance of three thousand dollars."
She sat looking at Peter seriously, almost distressfully, as he came toward her. With the closing of the curtains and the establishment of a real privacy Peter became aware once again of the sweetness and charm Cissie always held for him. He still wondered what had brought her, but he was no longer uneasy.
"One more round and then we will," answered the Prince, who had now baited his trap anew. Just as the question came to Rose, Jamie's voice was heard in the hall, crying distressfully, "Oh, come quick, quick!" Rose started up, missed the question, and was greeted with a general cry of "Forfeit! forfeit!" in which the little traitor came to join.
The prospect thence seemed to recall him to a consciousness of the actual present, and he looked round appealingly, distressfully. "I tell you what it is," said Gammon. "You ought to get into bed and have a doctor. Shall I help you?" "No, no; I regret that I came here, Greenacre. I am not welcome; how could I expect to be? If I am going to be ill it mustn't be here."
It may do for you, for you're worth taking care of; but I want to take care of something I needn't be ashamed to love!" He softly stole her hand as they went. She let it stay, yet looked away from him, up through the darkling branches, and distressfully shook her head. "Don't, Josephine! don't do that. I want you to take care of me.
"There are several. If you venture out you will be followed wherever you go." The girl sank into a chair in a limp, rumpled sort of way; somehow the idea of surveillance affected her more than anything else. Her face became ashen; her hands shook distressfully as she clasped them tightly together. "When you allowed the fears and desires of Allan Morris to cloud your reason, you made a mistake.
"Oh!" she cried, distressfully, "whatever does this mean; what are you doing here? Oh, you naughty boy!" "Lisbeth," I said, as I rose in my turn and confronted her, "Do not blame the child the fault is mine let me explain; by means of a ladder " "Not here," she whispered, glancing nervously towards the ball-room. "Then come where I can." "Impossible!"
Silas had never been self-conscious before, but now he became distressfully aware of himself of his awkwardness, of his clumsy feet and dangling hands, of the difference between his clothes and the clothes of the men about him. After a survey, which seemed to the boy of endless duration, the head waiter spoke, and his tone was the undisputed child of his looks. "I pussoom," said Mr.
I'd Banting you, and fit you to run without puffing, and get on without four or five meals a day. What an absurd hand that is for a man! You ought to be ashamed of it! And Mrs Jo caught up the plump fist, with deep dimples at each knuckle, which was fumbling distressfully at the buckle of the belt girt about a waist far too large for a youth of his age.
How very honourable of you! He did treat my mother badly once, it seems, in a moment of intoxication. And it is true that he is stern sometimes. But you will rule him entirely, I am sure, with your beauty and wealth and accomplishments. You are the woman he will adore, and we shall all three be happy together now!" "O, my Elizabeth-Jane!" cried Lucetta distressfully.
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