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To be sure, they exchanged glances freighted with meaning, and as usual her vanity was touched by the subtle homage of one who apparently regarded the rest of humanity with such cold indifference. He was the first person, except Papa Claude, who had ever taken her and her ambitions seriously, and she was profoundly grateful.
Lewis's voice was freighted with disgust, then, seeing that the climax had been reached on the stage, he turned away and signaled to ring down. "Take all the curtains you can get out of it," he instructed the stage-manager as he once more rubbed his hands. Smitherton stood silent, seeing the curtain descend, then rise and fall time after time to a thunder of applause.
That moment of hesitation was freighted with consequence. Then: "Gertie," he cried, hastening after her, "Gertie, wait! I do beg your pardon. I'm sorry. I didn't mean " But it was too late. Gertie's chamber door closed. John went slowly up to his own room, the room to which the butler had carried his bag.
I always thought of it as a fairy sort of ship, sailing on summer seas, freighted with youth and beauty, and carrying pleasure and good-fortune wherever it went. What more pleasing spectacle than this in a world that has such a bad name for want and misery? Henderson was master of the situation. The sudden accumulation of millions of money is a mystery to most people.
She is obedient as is proper for a titled and recognized military personage, which she is but the chain presses sometimes. For instance, we were out for a walk, and passed by some bushes that were freighted with wild goose-berries. Her face brightened and she put her hands together and delivered herself of this speech, most feelingly: "Oh, if I was permitted a vice it would be the gourmandise!"
I began also to feel a healthful hunger, and when, in clambering to the top of a steep rock, I frightened a shrieking gull from her nest, I fell avidly on the eggs she left behind. As the sun climbed, a tepid humidity freighted the air, but the trade-wind, rising steadily and freshly, tempered it and stirred the delicate fronds of palm and fern.
In the year 1280 the country was conquered by Jenghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo's friend and patron. He, too, was a great builder. His idea was that the rice harvest of the southern provinces should also benefit the northern parts of the country. Previously the rice had been freighted on junks and carried along the coast, where it was exposed to the attacks of Japanese pirates.
Thankful for the darkness that closed around him, he slung the water-monkey over his shoulder in its hammock of netted cord, pushed the side of codfish inside his shirt, poked the chart into his boot-leg, put the cheese in the sack atop the flour, and was freighted for his journey through the hold.
I went to Boston ... hung about the library and the waterfront ... stayed in cheap lodging houses for a few days and found myself on the tramp again. I freighted it to New York, where I landed, grimy and full of coal-dust. And I sought out my uncle who lived in the Bronx. I appeared, opportunely, around supper time. I asked him if he was not glad to see me.
He was anything but a handsome boy." After this final bit of reminiscence probably designed to be repeated to Mr. Schofield she disappeared in the direction of the kitchen, and returned with a pitcher of lemonade and a blue china dish sweetly freighted with flat ginger cookies of a composition that was her own secret.
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