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And the lump of sugar was in itself reassuring, for it certainly would not have been used in conjunction with any less conspicuous but more incriminating form of poison. That lump of sugar was now in my pocket, reserved for careful examination at my leisure; and I reflected with a faint grin that it would be a little disconcerting if it should turn out to contain nothing but sugar after all.
"It it is just her dinner time," stammered the lad, "and I wanted to find her." "She'll be up at the house, most likely, if she isn't at the kennels," announced Jerry. "There's visitors and Lola will be on deck to see 'em. She's a vain little lady and likes to be shown off." Walter greeted the remark with a sickly grin. "What have you been doing?" inquired he idly. "Me?
The youth burst into a laugh at this, and the old fisherman's mouth expanded into a broad grin, which betrayed the fact that age had failed to damage his teeth, though it had played some havoc with his legs. "These are what I style Highland boots," said the old man, pointing to the muddy legs. "Indeed!" returned Barret.
"Never was born!" persisted Topsy, with another grin, that looked so goblin-like, that, if Miss Ophelia had been at all nervous, she might have fancied that she had got hold of some sooty gnome from the land of Diablerie; but Miss Ophelia was not nervous, but plain and business-like, and she said, with some sternness, "You mustn't answer me in that way, child; I'm not playing with you.
When the Man went out to lunch, into the office hurried the office boy with a grin on his face. "What do you want?" asked the typewriter girl. "I want to make that Clown jiggle," was the answer. "I'm going to have some fun with him." "No, you mustn't!" exclaimed the girl. "The Boss won't like it if you touch him. If you break him " "Aw, I won't break him!" cried the boy. "Let me have him!"
Then I noticed his mouth expanding into a grin, and presently he laughed, a short, explosive sort of laugh rather like the bark of a dog. But we had our revenge a week later, when our next ahead he was our friend as well as our senior nearly collided with a buoy at the entrance to a certain harbour. "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set," he must have read.
They began to gather up by the gymnastic apparatus, and suddenly he had the whole pack upon him. He tried to rise and shake them off, flinging them hither and thither, but all in vain; down through the heap came their remorseless knuckles and made him grin with pain.
It soon reached the shore, and, entering it, he was speedily rowed away from the scene of his morning's experience back to his floating palace, where, as yet, none of his friends were stirring. "How about Jedke?" he inquired of one of his men. "Did they climb it?" A slow grin overspread the sailor's brown face. "Lord bless you, no, sir! Mr.
"The lower classes," he said to himself, "know rank and position when they see it." His smile became a grin as he sank back in the limousine that was his host's evening conveyance. It became almost complacent as the car slid down Park Avenue. And when, at length, it had reached the center of the great bridge that spans the East River, he knocked upon the glass.
"He came for a while, but he's left off coming now. I don't feel particularly gay about it," March said, with some resentment of Fulkerson's grin. "He's left me in debt to him for lessons to the children." Fulkerson laughed out. "Well, he is the greatest old fool! Who'd 'a' thought he'd 'a' been in earnest with those 'brincibles' of his?
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