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She decided on the latter and after several abortive attempts, which found their ultimate fate in the fire, she achieved the following telegraphic epistle: "DEAR ROGER, Have gone to town. Stopping with Penelope. Afterwards she packed with gleeful hands.
This was not a great queen, but a gleeful girl at the height of her happiness, who stroked with white taper hand the sleek black head, looked eagerly into the fond eyes, perhaps went so far as to hug the humble friend, stretching up fleet shapely paws, wildly wagging a slender tail, uttering sharp little yelps of delight to greet her.
Just turn it out gleeful and infractious. "He stared into the nozzle of that Krupp for a minute, then swallered twice to tune up his reeds, and says, friendly and perlite, but serious and wheezy: "'Why, what in hell ails you, William? "'Laugh, you old dong-beater, I yells, rising gradually to the occasion, 'or I'll bust your cupola like a blue-rock. "'I've got to have merriment, I says.
The spotless marble of the floor was stained by a dark red pool, becoming larger every moment as the life-blood dripped slowly from beneath. The scene was revolting. I placed my hands over my eyes to shut out from my gaze the horrible contortions of the victim's face. Yet those assembled were gleeful and excited.
She referred to the gallant defender of our seas, it appeared, and while Laura undressed and got into a wrapper, Cora recounted in detail the history of the impetuous sailor's enthrallment; a resume predicted three hours earlier by a gleeful whisper hissed across the maritime shoulder as the sisters swung near each other during a waltz: "proposed!"
The wind began to roar in the firs with a stern mournfulness which went to the heart of the man; but the girl, without once stopping her horse, unrolled her raincoat and put it on, calling back at her cavalier as she did so with a fine, challenging, gleeful shout. They were very high now. Perennial ice lay in the gullies and on the north side of the cliffs, and the air was light and keen.
From off to the south, beyond the quicksand, came a chorus of sharp, shrill, gleeful whoops. "There go the curs!" flared Harry. Another volley of jeers reached the camp officials. "They are mounted on horses," spoke Tom judicially. "They couldn't travel as fast on foot and yell at the same time." A third taunting chorus traveled over the desert.
Too full of youth to give place to regret, these two freshmen were keyed to the full pitch of the big, jolly, gleeful occasion. "Can you imagine us going, and bound for such a good time?" said Sally, while Bobbie fluffed the maline butterfly from her companion's shoulders. "Like a jolly time at a funeral," replied the other, her tone of voice softening the comparison.
It is impossible to describe the effect which the presence of the prince produced upon this gleeful company, and it would be equally impossible to describe the effect which the sight of their happiness produced upon Philip. The Comte de Guiche had no power to move; Madame remained in the middle of one of the figures and of an attitude, unable to utter a word.
I was too horror-stricken to know exactly what I was doing, but I distinctly remember that, as I tugged the door open, there was a low, gleeful chuckle, and something slipped by me and disappeared in the direction of the corridor. At noon that day my mother had a seizure of apoplexy, and died at midnight.
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