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I thought if I hurried I could make the eight-o'clock trolley back to La Chance, and you could send my trunk after me." Her every faculty was so concentrated on the single idea of flight flight back to the safety of home, that she did not think of the necessity of making an excuse, giving a reason for her action.
We are in time for the eight-o'clock train. We should have nearly the whole day on the beach." "Hat? What do I want with a hat? But your shoes are broken." "They can be patched," with a gasp of delight. "Here! clear away the work, father, while I put up a basket of dinner." She stopped by the window, looking out: "Somebody is coming through the apple trees: I smell a cigar.
That Sadie Peel asked me this noon if it was true that you had something on your mind, and was worrying about well, you know what that made you look so." Ellen flushed an angry red. "I'll stop for you and Maria to-night," she answered, quickly. "All right," Abby replied, heartily; "we'll go on the eight-o'clock car."
They reached the house of Mr. Bryson. He sat over his eight-o'clock cup of tea, with a very gloomy face. He had known Sir Everard all his life he had known his beautiful bride, so passionately beloved. He had bidden the doomed baronet a last farewell that afternoon. "He never did it," said he to himself. "There is a horrible mystery somewhere.
What is it?" she cried in alarm the moment she saw his face. "Is anybody dead?" "Worse! She's run away to get married!" "Not Myrna?" "No. Miss Nell. She left to-night for Chicago to marry Phipps!" "But she can't!" cried Rose wildly. "It's got to be stopped. He's not fit to marry anybody! We've got to stop her!" "I tell you, it's too late! She left on the eight-o'clock train." "Who said so?
But Wolf and Norma saw them only occasionally, when a Sunday supper at the country club or a Saturday-night dance supplied them with a pleasant stimulating sense of being liked and welcomed, or when general greetings on the eight-o'clock train in the morning were mingled with comments on the thunderstorm or the epidemic of nursery chicken-pox.
I will have breakfast put for you in my study, and I will have a fly at the door. You will be able to catch the eight-o'clock train into Gloucester, and you should be home by eleven." "You do not think anything could have happened to him?" Rupert asked anxiously. "No, I do not think that there is any fear of that, Clinton.
To all these Mr. Wrenn had been indifferent, for they showed no imagination. But when he saw Big Business glorified by a humorous melodrama, then The Job appeared to him as picaresque adventure, and he was in peril of his imagination. The eight-o'clock sun, which usually found a wildly shaving Mr. Wrenn, discovered him dreaming that he was the manager of the Souvenir Company.
Refreshed by the first sound sleep she had been able to obtain for several nights, Lady Agatha joined Cleggett at an eight-o'clock breakfast. It was the first of May, and warm and bright; in a simple morning dress of pink linen Lady Agatha stirred in Cleggett a vague recollection of one of Tennyson's earlier poems.
Peggy had waked before it was light, to feel her presents which lay beside her on her bed; and, by the time Majendie's sail had passed Fawlness Point, she was up and dressed, waiting for him. Anne had to break it to her gently that perhaps he would not be home in time for eight-o'clock breakfast. Then the child's mouth trembled, and Anne comforted her, half-smiling and half-afraid.
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