United States or Belize ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Presently Uncle John jumped up and approached the official. "Hasn't Mr. Marvin arrived yet?" he enquired, sharply. "An hour ago," was the reply. "Then why didn't you let me know? I want to see him." "He's busy mornings. Has to look over the mail. He can't see you yet." "Well, he will see me, and right away. Tell him John Merrick is here." "Your card, sir." "I haven't any. My name will do."
My friend that's nursing me hasn't a roof to her head and she wouldn't share it with the boy if she had she's a bigoted Orthodox. "'But what do you expect me to do? I asked angrily, for she was stabbing me with every word. "'The boy is your husband's child and he always represented you as a saint upon earth. I expect you to take him home and provide for him.
Who hasn't seen the mother praying into his face, to know if there is hope for the sick infant that can not speak, and that lies yonder, its little frame battling with fever? Ah, how she looks into his eyes! What thanks if there is light there; what grief and pain if he casts them down, and dares not say "hope!" Or it is the house-father who is stricken.
For myself and setting aside this personal matter, which is at worst only the loss of a worthless girl I admit I fear that this slavery wolf is going to mean trouble big trouble both for the South and the North, before long." "Douglas, over there in Illinois, hasn't brought up anything in Congress yet that's stuck," broke in the ever-ready Jones. "Old Caroliny and Mississip' them's the ones!
"My son-in-law hasn't done anything and he's got handcuffs on!" Ibarra turned to the guards. "Bind me, and bind me well, elbow to elbow," he said. "We haven't any order." "Bind me!" And the soldiers obeyed. The alferez appeared on horseback, armed to the teeth, ten or fifteen more soldiers following him.
I am sorry to say that there is no kindness nor gentleness in him towards any save his own family. Outside of that he hasn't a friend in the world, not one." "Hasn't he any enemies?" asked Peter Rabbit. "Oh, yes," replied Old Mother Nature. "Reddy Fox, Old Man Coyote, Hooty the Owl and various members of the Hawk family have to be watched for by him. But they do not worry him much.
And the child, Janet, our child " "If the world was right," she said, "I could have this child and nobody would say anything. I could support it I guess I can anyway. And when I'm not half crazy I want it. Maybe that's the reason I couldn't do what I tried to do just now. It's natural for a woman to want a child especially a woman like me, who hasn't anybody or anything."
Harriet nodded and smiled. "But I thought you said he had no gun," objected Miss Elting. "He hasn't now. I have his gun," answered Harriet with a twinkle in her eyes. "Yes, it is a rifle. I am glad we have it, for, from the present outlook, we shall need it." She stepped away and from a rock picked up a repeating rifle. This the intruder had dropped.
He turned and looked at her, and laughed boyishly. "The run hasn't hurt you," he said; "you look like a wild rose. I believe I shall call you so; may I? I can't call you by the old name."
"Oh, mother, such an old woman such a poor old woman! groaning right out in the street I mean, I was out in the street, and heard her groan up two flights of the crookedest stairs, and she broke her ankle, and the neighbors won't give her anything to eat, unless she goes to the poor-house and starves, and she hasn't had any dinner, and " "Wait a minute, Gypsy; what does all this mean?"
Word Of The Day