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"Marjorie, you oughtn't to have asked me that. I can't explain very well. I " He stumbled and He stopped, for the girl had turned astonished eyes upon him. "Explain what?" she asked with demure wonder. "It's all right. I came near asking Jason to marry me." "Marjorie!" exploded Gray. "Well!" A negro boy burst down the path, panting: "Miss Marjorie, yo' mother says you an' Mr.
She stole timid glances at the bowed black head and the frowning black brows; after a glance she would sigh, a prolonged, patient sigh. There are times when a sigh is to strained nerves like a blast of hot air on a burn. Norah jumped up and ran away from her own irritation before it exploded. The "pire glass," as Mrs.
The generosity of her loving nature instinctively responded to his apparent need. She was instantly eager to show her love and loyalty. "I'd do it, Daddy!" she exploded. "I'd do it quick!" "But what if if if if it made ye lots of trouble an' an' mebbe some of yer friends if they found it out wouldn't think 'twere right?" A queer, obstinate expression lived a moment in the girl's eyes.
Are you so wild to get at the slaughter that you can't wait a decent length of time, and give the poor birds and beasts a chance to know we're here for a long stay? For goodness' sake, show some sportsman spirit, Bluff," he exploded. The other looked up with an injured expression.
Seeing America was too lively to have been killed, I consoled Martha and hastened to the kitchen. Evidently a shell had exploded just outside, sending three or four pieces through. When order was restored I endeavored to impress on Martha's mind the uselessness of such excitement.
"If there's law in England," Nicky-Nan threatened, "you'll keep clear o' this here patch o' mine, or it'll be the worse for 'ee!" Corporal Sandercock seated himself leisurably on a hillock of thyme, began to knock out his pipe against the edge of his boot-sole, and suddenly exploded in laughter so violent that he was forced to hold his sides. The exhibition took Nicky-Nan right aback.
The pretty plan of cutting the bride cake and hunting for a ring has been long exploded, as the bridesmaids declare that it ruins their gloves, and that in these days of eighteen buttons it is too much trouble to take off and put on a glove for the sake of finding a ring in a bit of greasy pastry. However, it might supplement a wedding supper.
"Now she excites!" he exploded, gleefully, as the hum of the motor took up the shrill whir of the self-starter. He stopped the thing and bent a reproachful gaze upon Wilbur. "Every one else leaving me even that Elihu Titus. I never thought you would, after the way we've stood together in this town. I had a right to expect something better from you.
One seaman was killed and nine wounded on the flag-ship, and one was killed by a ball on the Essex. In the fort, the twenty-four pound rifled gun exploded, disabling every man at the piece; a shell from the fleet, exploding at the mouth of one of the thirty-two pounders, ruined the gun, and killed or wounded all the men serving it.
But, by midnight, it seemed as though the situation was solving itself. In the segregated district there had been a small riot, and another along the river front, disturbances quickly ended by the police and the volunteer deputies. The city had not gone dark. The bombs had not exploded. Word came in that by back roads and devious paths the most rabid of the agitators were leaving town.
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