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'Come awa in by, Steenie, my man! she said, in a tone that seemed to wrap its object in fold upon fold of tenderness, enough to make the peat-smoke that pervaded the kitchen seem the very atmosphere of the heavenly countries. Steenie stood smiling and undecided on the slab in front of the doorstep. 'Dreid naething, Steenie, his mother went on.
It was the "Fairchance" that the boys had planned so long, with its rose-bordered paths, the orchard and garden and outlying fields. Nothing had been forgotten, from the big Newfoundland dog on the doorstep, to the ducks on the pond, and the little speckled pigs in the pen. The day that Keith was able to walk down-stairs for the first time, Mr.
Why should her father's attacker make her think now, of all times, of that night in Hen's parlor, the morning on Mr. Beirne's doorstep, that rainy May-day in his Dabney House when he had overwhelmed her with the knowledge of his superiority?... I, for one, am glad to see women revolting from this condition, asking something truer, something commoner, than chivalry.
This boy whose face had moved her so strangely in Milan Cathedral, was he the same who had lain on the doorstep drunk? ugh, so drunk! The same who had sunk, sunk so low, that he oh, she would not think of it any more. Käte wanted to forget; she honestly tried to do so.
He was desirous, it is true, of avenging the wrongs of Erin in battle line; he wished also to share the grave of Sarsfield and Hugh O'Neill; but he was sure that Miss Perkins, as well as Miss Little, was desperately in love with him; and I left him on a doorstep in tears. "Is it best to be laughing-mad, or crying-mad, in the world?" says I moodily, coming into my street.
Teale his boy was here?" That night there was great excitement in Gold City. Groups of men were talking in undertones everywhere. With a promise to try and find his father, Yankee Sam left the boy sitting on the doorstep of the Palace; where, hungry and tired, he fell asleep, while all the street arabs stood at a respectful distance commenting on "the city kid what says he's Teale's boy."
She reappeared immediately afterwards with two doors ajar behind her and called long before she reached the threshold, that the gentleman would be there in a moment; then she sat down on the doorstep, leaned against the wall, and peered at the strangers from underneath one of her arms. The gentleman came, and proved to be a tall strongly-built man of some twenty years.
We decided on the telephone because we thought that we could not be traced that way, never imagining for a moment that you could get the number of your caller over the trunk line. Enid came up to town, and worked the telephone, Chris was in No. 218, and I brought the money." "You placed that cigar-case on my doorstep?" "Yes, I was wound up for anything.
Three young men, with their valet, are standing on the doorstep of the William Pitt, bowing politely, and inquiring in the most courteous terms in the world if they can be accommodated. It is the time of the French Revolution, and these are three sons of the Duke of Orleans Louis Philippe and his two brothers. Louis Philippe never forgot his visit to Rivermouth.
"I'll do everything I can to make it easy for you to get it soon, and that is why I will go to Alton." The mason rose from the doorstep and walked nervously to and fro in front of the shack. At last he muttered, "Guess I won't say nothin' to the folks about the money until it is all settled it might make 'em kind of anxious." "No, that would be better," Adelle agreed.
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