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"Well, Jack, I hear you had a ranch," said the father, with a faint effort at jocularity. "Yes, and a great crop of alfalfa," answered Jack, happily. "And it seems that all the time you were away you have never used your allowance, so it has just been piling up for you." "I didn't need it. I had quite sufficient from the income of my mother's estate." "Yes your mother I had forgotten!"
In this shallow water, says a faint story far off, faint and uncertain, like the murmur of a distant cascade two ladies and some soldiers lost their lives. The brow is defended by thick bramble-bushes, which bore a fine crop of blackberries that autumn, to the delight of the boys; and these bushes partly conceal the sharpness of the short descent.
"Ah! you gave me a terrible fright; see how I tremble." But the worthy lady's fright was as nothing in comparison with the curiosity that tortured her. It was so powerful, indeed, that she could not control it. "What has happened?" she asked. "Nothing, madame, nothing." "But " "I am subject to such attacks. I was very cold, and the heat of the room made me feel faint."
It was as proper and orderly a parlor as those of our most fashionable neighbors; and when our friends called, we took them stumbling into its darkened solitude, and opened a faint crack in one of the window-shades, and came down in our best clothes and talked with them there.
"When the panic was at its height, and the rush of people underneath our balcony was like a stampede of wild animals, I felt myself growing faint, and looked around for something to rest against. That instant an arm supported me and a voice whispered, 'Do not be frightened, you are safe.
In the height of my enjoyment of an unusually good story, Philip, with a slight movement, drew my attention to a faint, crackling noise coming from the margin of the glade, where moonlight and shadow lay in sharp contrast at the foot of the trees; he then whispered that the old badger was standing there.
'Is it possible, said his companion, with a faint smile, 'that you are ignorant of the great city of Hubbabub; the largest city not only that exists, but that ever did exist, and the capital of the island of Vraibleusia, the most famous island not only that is known, but that ever was known?
The light flickered again from the fiery perishing of a second moth. A strange feeling crept over him, a deepened sense of suspense, of imminence. He fingered his throat, and his hand was icy where it touched his burning face. He stood up in an increasing, nameless disturbance. A faint spasm crossed the drained countenance beneath him; the mouth fell open. He knew suddenly that Lettice was dead.
Dakota himself was repairing a saddle in the shade of the cabin wall, and for all that Langford could see he was entirely unaware of his approach. He saw Dakota look up when he passed the corral gate, and when he reached a point about twenty feet distant he observed a faint smile on Dakota's face. "Howdy, stranger," came the latter's voice. "How are you, my friend?" greeted Langford easily.
The roar of the lashing water, the pounding of shod hoofs, the whining creak of saddle-leather were the only sounds coming to them out of the night. When, finally, they drew rein under the cliffs at the lake's edge all was silent save for the faint distant booming of the river below them. "Now which way?" whispered Hampton, his voice eloquent of suppressed excitement and eagerness.
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