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At the same time, it's very kind of you to come up and speak to me about it, though I'm really quite ashamed you should have thought there was anything particularly praiseworthy or commendable in my standing out against such an obviously cruel sport as pigeon-shooting. 'Ah, but I do think so, whatever you may say, Mr. Le Breton, Hilda went on eagerly.
Likewise we were glad to promise the old horse-keeper, who had served our father before us, that we would care for him all his days; he besought me eagerly that I would keep my own Hungarian palfrey, for, to his mind, a damsel of high degree with no saddle nor steed was as a bird that cannot rise on its wings.
A number of the girls were singing and dancing around this tree, and I felt so happy just then that I should have loved to join them, but I was consumed by a desire to come to close quarters with the object of my devotion, so I looked eagerly about me and asked Mildred if Alma was likely to be there.
'Well, then, said Hannibal, 'you will each of you draw lots which shall fight with the other, and the victor of every pair shall be given armour, a horse, and a sword, and be one of my soldiers. Pressing eagerly forward towards the urns which held the lots, the captives stopped to hold up their hands, as was their custom, praying to their gods for victory.
What can have made you think of such a thing?" "Stand here in my place; you cannot see over all those heads. Now look well at him. Am I right or wrong?" A strange gray look came over Mr. Forster's face. "I I believe you are right," he said. "My God! what can this mean?" "Look now! his face is turned this way! Look!" cried Mr. Macfarlane, eagerly.
"Listen! what was that?" exclaimed Max, breaking in on Bandy-legs' complaint. "What did you think you heard?" asked Steve, eagerly; "we're too far away from either shore right here to hope for anything, because you remember the banks of the Evergreen are low after passing our town, and the water's had a chance to spread itself. Whew! it must be half a mile across here, and then some."
She had taken care to have the intelligence conveyed to herself, as soon as it was known that the ceremony was over, as she was desirous that Marianne should not receive the first notice of it from the public papers, which she saw her eagerly examining every morning.
"I would trust Marion in anything," said Mrs. Roden, eagerly. "So would I; so would I. She hath ever been a good girl." "But do you not distrust her if you shut her up, and are afraid to allow her even to sit at table in a strange house?" "I have never forbidden her to sit at thy table," said the Quaker. "And you should let her go specially as a kindness to me.
Weather still had to come through with reports and the men had learned that Weather often let them down. Being let down after getting keyed up for a dangerous mission was worse than going out. But Weather did not let them down. They got their clearance without delay and headed for the ready room. Eagerly they scrambled into their outfits, then barged out into the night.
"I thought I heard MacSpadden's voice," said the consul quietly. There was a dead silence. Then Macquoich said hurriedly: "Is he no' in his room in bed asleep, man?" "I really don't know; I didn't inquire," said the consul with a slight yawn. "Good night!" He turned, not without hearing them eagerly whispering again, and entered the passage leading to his own room.
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