United States or Montserrat ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As they stepped inside the yard the Ramblin' Kid appeared at the kitchen door. "There's the Ramblin' Kid now," Skinny said as they approached. "Hello, Kid," he continued, "I see you got the filly Excuse me, I guess you folks ain't acquainted." Haltingly he introduced them. Without the flicker of an eyelid the Ramblin' Kid looked into the eyes of Carolyn June.
"Isn't she just too lovely!" Tommy murmured aside to Audrey. "I not much understand," said Musa. Tommy translated to him, haltingly, and Audrey was moved to say, with energy: "What I want most is to learn French, and I'm going to begin to-morrow morning."
He read the unspoken thought behind the changing rush of color. "Don't feel that way about it" he whispered haltingly. "It's unusual but then you and I are unusual, too. There seems to be perfect understanding, and between a man and a woman that means perfect peace. It had to be. It was preordained our meeting. What is your name?" Donna again told him. "Nice name. Like it."
The will was in the usual form, but it was brief. Slowly, almost haltingly, he read, so that the words fell clearly on each ear. This is what they heard: "In the name of God, Amen. I, Andrew Malden, a native of Massachusetts, a resident of Grizzly county, State of California, being in clear mind and usual health, do hereby make my last will and testament.
The bristling red mustache had turned to gray and drooped. His whole figure drooped. His black clothes hung in many careless creases, and as he came forward it was not with his old quick, all-conquering step, but haltingly, as though Mrs. Bannister owned the room and he doubted if he were welcome. I lost my embarrassment in wonder.
"I have been busy," she said, releasing her hand and sitting down at her desk and taking up her notebook. "You are not well," he insisted. "I'm all right," she replied. He lit a cigarette and began to pace the room his customary manner of preparing himself for the creative mood. After a while he began to dictate but haltingly.
"I shot Maudlin Bates," he said, haltingly; then turning to the jury he continued: "The cobbler's an innocent man " A menacing groan fell from a hundred lips at his words. He deliberately took from his hip pocket a revolver, lifted the weapon and finished: "I'm I'm sorry, Jinnie, I'm " Then came the sharp, short bark of the gun, and the bullet found a path to his brain.
Thus was he introduced at public gatherings where he sometimes spoke, haltingly and prosily, for his talents were too serious and deep for extempore brilliancy; thus was he presented to strangers and to the lawyers who made the circuit of the courts; and so the Daily Banner referred to him in print. To be "the son of" was his doom.
He shot her, and tried to shoot me, and I drew upon him in self-defence." The Prince spoke haltingly. He had not been prepared to lie so soon. "What are you doing with that cushion?" Filippo looked down guiltily at the frilled thing he held. "I was going to put it under her head," he began, but the other was not listening. He had come forward into the room and he had seen.
What happened the other night?" "I had an awful nightmare about that galley of ours. I dreamed I was drowned in a fight. You see we ran alongside another ship in harbor. The water was dead still except where our oars whipped it up. You know where I always sit in the galley?" He spoke haltingly at first, under a fine English fear of being laughed at, "No.
Word Of The Day