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"Allow me to go up with Miss Annabella, and perhaps save her a journey," said I. "Messages are apt to be returned and to make further errands." "Oh, but pray do not give yourself that trouble," said Miss Annabella, glancing at her mother. "Certainly not. I cannot think of it," answered Mrs Crossland, hastily.
That day poor Ephraim glancing between whiles at some boys out coasting over in a field, down a fine icy slope, hearing now and then their shouts of glee had a certain sense of superiority and complacency along with the piteous and wistful longing which always abode in his heart.
"Well, now, Mis' Pennel, you're one of the women that don't get put out easy; ain't ye?" said the Captain, still contemplating his fire with a proud and watchful eye. "Law me!" he exclaimed, glancing through the window, "there's the Cap'n a-comin'. I'm jist goin' to give a look at what he's brought in.
I noticed that Hunter Quatermain's eyes kept glancing at these trophies, and took an occasion to ask him if he knew anything about them.
"Oh, wait!" she cried breathlessly, but at the sound of her voice both children started guiltily, and with a snarl of anger and defiance, plunged boldly into the flood, not even glancing behind them at the flying, gray-coated figure in pursuit. However, the water was swift in the gutter, the mud very slippery, and the little tots in too great a hurry.
"Say, Sunny's woke up an' bin thinkin'," he cried. "I allow his brain is shockin' wonderful. Guess he's got sick o' restin' an' reckons he got a notion for makin' a trust lay-out." "The Zip Trust," added Sandy, with a laugh, in which Toby joined heartily. "Yes. He guesses Zip needs lookin' after," declared the remittance man in the midst of his mirth, glancing round for appreciation of the joke.
On glancing hastily over it what was my astonishment to find that the Comte Ferrand had been appointed Director of the Post-office in my stead. Such was the strange mode in which M. de Blacas made me feel the promised gratitude of the sovereign.
I think we'd better call her 'Crack Brain; we'll put it C.B., for short." "You'd better call her L.H., 'Level Head," a voice a boy's voice called out here. The group of girls looked at one another in startled surprise. "Who what!" Then Dora Robson, glancing over the piazza railing, exclaimed, "It's Will Wentworth. He's in the hammock!
She sat there, struggling for self-control, her streaked and grotesque countenance contorted with emotion. Then I saw her eyes widen, and, glancing around, I saw that Rogers had dragged himself to a sitting posture, and was staring at her, his face livid. The sight of him seemed to madden her. "It was you!" she shrieked, and shook her clenched fist at him. "It was you who told! Coward! Coward!"
I always been out of debt; but this year I done put a mortgage on the place to get money to go on with." "We can always eat beef, George," said his wife with a little laugh, "and miner's lettuce. We ain't the first folks that has had hard times and got over it." "Mebbe not," agreed George, glancing with furrowed brow at a tiny garment on which Mrs. George was sewing.
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