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There was daddy himself at least an hour and a half too early. "Well, well!" exclaimed Broxton Day, rather sternly, "what is the meaning of this?" "Dirt on the floor boards scrubbing brush elbow grease," retorted his daughter, making vigorous explanatory motions. "Didn't you ever see a 'scrub lady' before, Daddy?" "Humph! so there is a Cinderella in the house is there?" he said. Mrs.
Then, controlling herself, she added in an explanatory tone: "In this case, Baron, your far-famed penetration deceived you. It gave me more pain than you will believe to reject the friendly advances of this lovely child, but her father is the head of the Lutheran heresy here, and the almoner " "Then that certainly alters the case," the other interrupted.
They had just finished clothing him thus, when the goodman came home, and the mother's narration had to be given afresh, with Donal's notes explanatory and completive.
When Paul came in, he seemed abstracted, and went directly upstairs to pack a satchel, stating with his usual absence of explanatory comment that he was called to Evanston on business. He ate his dinner rather silently, glancing furtively at the paper. Only at the breakfast-table such was their convention did he allow himself to become absorbed in the news.
A new explanatory statute was accordingly drawn up, requiring the clergy to take the oath of abjuration before the 23d of March, 1710, under the penalties of transportation for life, and of high-treason if ever after found in the country. This bill, then, set them the alternative of abandoning either their country or their principles.
We quote the official description accompanied by some explanatory comments added by one who was an eye-witness and who conversed with the triumphant young airman on his return to the safety of the soil. "While exposing six plates," says the official report of this youthful recording angel, "I observed five H. A.'s cruising." "H. A." stands for "hostile aeroplane."
By the time Katherine had put on her out-door dress, and written an explanatory line to Mrs. Needham, De Burgh returned with Miss Payne. "You must tell me all about it as we go along," said that lady, as Katherine took her place beside her, "and you must do nothing rash." "Oh no, if I can only prevent a recurrence of such a scene. I am most grateful to you for your kind help, Lord de Burgh.
But she no longer sighed for Toby. A curious dread of him came into her consciousness, which she could not understand. She was afraid. She felt defensive towards him, and explanatory. Under her attention all sorts of impulses were at work.
That kind of talk makes me tired." Pete flushed, started an explanatory sentence, and another, and then, very uncomfortable, went out. Bannon did not look up; he went on studying the blue print, measuring here and there with his three-sided ruler and jotting down incomprehensible operations in arithmetic on a scrap of paper.
Yet painstaking, using ink, he had headed the volume: "A History of places where I have been." As a whole, the volume would be unintelligible to a reader, for while it records the things he wished to remember of his camp-life, the trip through England, his stay in France, and tells in order the "places he had been," it is made up of swift-moving notes that enter into no explanatory details.
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