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He was frequenting the circles of "serious" people now, had made friends with the alcalde and was talking all the time of the great need for getting all "decent" folk together to take the "rabble" in hand! "Ambition is pecking at him," the old man gleefully remarked to his daughter-in-law. "Let him alone, woman; he'll get there, he'll get there... That's the way I like to see him."
What do you think he is going to give you as a marriage dot?" "Don't make me guess. You know I am never able to guess a riddle." "He is going to present you with his new villa at Newport." "How could he have known that I was wishing for just that one thing? O, won't it be jolly to go there and spend our honeymoon," Ethel exclaims gleefully.
"I know where we are now!" exclaimed Beatrice gleefully. "It's only quite a short way to the Morton's. They live in the next terrace but two. I believe we're within measurable distance of some lunch." This was such good news that they strode along in renewed spirits. Considering all, they thought the adventure was turning out well.
She gazed at Henry with large admiring eyes as he read aloud to her chapter after chapter. 'What do you think I'm going to call it? he had demanded of her once, gleefully. 'I don't know, she said. 'Red and Black, he told her. 'Isn't that a fine title? 'Yes, she said. 'But it's been used before; and she gave him particulars of Stendhal's novel, of which he had never heard.
"Oh, she's going with him there are no frills to the affection of Caroline Darrah! She'll be bending over his camp-fire yanking out his hot tamales in less than a month glad to do it. Won't you, beautiful?" answered David gleefully to Caroline's beautiful confusion.
There was the triumphant ring of the conqueror in Aunt Hannah's voice. "But now it strikes half-past on the hour, and the clock in the hall tells me then what time it is, so I don't care." For one more brief minute Billy stared, before a sudden light of understanding illumined her face. Then her laugh rang out gleefully. "Oh, Aunt Hannah, Aunt Hannah," she gurgled.
Then shouted Beltane, and fell upon them right joyously and smote them gleefully and laughed to see them reel and scatter before his sudden onset; whereon, beholding Sir Fidelis pale and scant of breath, he stayed to clap him on the shoulder. "Blithely done, good Fidelis!" quoth he. "Rest thee awhile and catch thy wind, for fain am I to try a bout with yon tall rogues!"
As Von Barwig saw his friend, a look of intense pain crossed his face, but he forced himself to smile and say: "Come in, Herr Doctor Poons, and mend this little girl's eye. See, I've given her cake to eat, but it won't do her eye any good!" Hélène laughed gleefully at the idea of cake being good for a broken eye. "Good gracious, how did the eye fall out?" said Dr. Poons, shaking his head gravely.
From a narrow alley on the right came sounds resembling explosives, and three small boys, yelling gleefully, shot out into the road. Wendy, pausing to ascertain the cause of the excitement, ejaculated the one word, "Squibs!" "Gee whiz! You don't mean to say they've got fireworks!" exclaimed Diana. "Then I'm not going back till I've bought some.
The third man up was struck on the elbow with the ball, and trotted gleefully to first, the player ahead going to second. But Curly caught the runner on first napping, and the next batsman struck out. The blue-stockinged players came in from the field. "Stone at bat!" called the scorer. "Brown on deck!" "A run would do it, sir," said Apthorpe, eagerly.
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