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"Who did you say the young lady is," asked Mr. Gilchrist, who thought he recognized Pearl, but not expecting to see her here, wished to be sure. Mr. Gilchrist, as President of the Political Association, had heard about Pearl, and hoped she might be an able ally in the coming election. "This is Pearl Watson," said Mr. Paine, rather grudgingly.
"I DID wave my handkerchief," she said. "I'm very sorry. I am expecting a friend, a gentleman," she seemed to flush pink for a minute. "He is riding a bicycle and dressed in in brown; and at a distance, you know " "Oh, quite!" said Mr. Hoopdriver, bearing up in manly fashion against his bitter disappointment. "Certainly." "I'm awfully sorry, you know. Troubling you to dismount, and all that."
We have introduced Mara to our readers as she appears in her seventeenth year, at the time when she is expecting the return of Moses as a young man of twenty; but we cannot do justice to the feelings which are roused in her heart by this expectation, without giving a chapter or two to tracing the history of Moses since we left him as a boy commencing the study of the Latin grammar with Mr.
"Well, the next in order is,'and mother is expecting Edward home soon." "That is just what I have been expecting to hear for a week past, Doctor. You know I have made my success with Miss De Wolf the condition on which I should be induced to locate here. Well, I'm pretty sure of her, and I have at length determined to hang out my shingle, and go to work.
On the contrary, he seemed to be entirely absorbed in the scenery. Mr. Wrandall had said, without shaking hands: "We will repair at once to Mrs. Challis Wrandall's house, Mr. Smith. She is expecting you. I have informed her of your mission." "I think we'd better discuss the matter between ourselves, Mr. Wrandall, before putting it up to "
"I've been expecting you for a long time," said Audrey, with that miraculous bland tranquillity of which young girls alone have the secret when the conventions are imperilled. "I was just going to order tea." Mr. Gilman hesitated and then replied: "How kind of you! But please don't order tea for me.
The eyes of all but one were on the black blotch, the hollow in the cliff-side, expecting we knew not what a sudden shot or the rush or a desperate man; and no one saw exactly what happened.
So does a dog a drover's dog, waiting for his master outside a butcher's shop, and evidently thinking about those sheep he has had upon his mind for some hours and is happily rid of. He seems perplexed respecting three or four, can't remember where he left them, looks up and down the street as half expecting to see them astray, suddenly pricks up his ears and remembers all about it.
He put his arms round her and pressed his lips to her mouth that sought his kiss. She too had not slept all night, and had been expecting him all the morning. Her mother and father had consented without demur, and were happy in her happiness. She had been waiting for him. She wanted to be the first to tell him her happiness and his.
On the morning of the 18th, about the very hour that the advance should have begun, Pope was informed by a spy that the Confederate army was assembled behind Clark's Mountain and the neighbouring hills; that the artillery horses were harnessed, and that the troops were momentarily expecting orders to cross the river and strike his rear. He at once made preparations for retreat.
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