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"Well, sir," said Grabman, mollified, "you speak very much like a gentleman. My feelings were hurt at first, I own. I am hasty, but I can listen to reason. Will you walk back with me to the house you have just left? And suppose we then turn in and have a chop together, and compare notes." "Willingly," answered the tall stranger, and the two inquisitors amicably joined company.
Her eye fell on her trunk; her next thought was of her desk inside of it; and suddenly her heart sprang "I will write to Mamma!" No sooner said than done. The trunk was quickly open, and hasty hands pulled out one thing after another till the desk was reached. "But what shall I do?" thought she "there isn't a sign of a table. Oh, what a place! I'll shut my trunk and put it on that.
It was no child's play, and our progress was very slow; but the carcass moved, and I gave a shout of encouragement as we got it down to the smoother ground of the road and hauled it along with a will. Alas! that shout was a great indiscretion. I had been too hasty in assuming that our enemy was quite gone.
Her presence was sufficient warning to the green-eyed monster to make hasty retreat. Lord Bereford took a fond interest in his newly found daughter. He had always loved Lady Rosamond as his own child. She reminded him of the lovely sister who shared in his youthful joys. Maria Bereford was the favorite sister of his early days; her daughter was a tender link in the chain of memory.
Neither of us is in the mood for it now." After a hasty toilet Graham joined his aunt. She looked at him, and had no fears. Grace met them at the door. "It is very kind of you," she said, "to come over this evening after a fatiguing journey." "Very," he replied, laughingly; "a ride of fifty miles in the cars should entitle one to a week's rest." "I hope you are going to take it."
'And thou deemest that it is the spells of the enchanter whom thou hast angered that have lent strength to the besieging party, said the gallant leader; 'but know thou that Wulfric de Talbot needs no enchanter's aid to lead his followers to victory. 'No, I'm sure you don't, said Robert, with hasty courtesy; 'of course not you wouldn't, you know.
It seems good to have a home after so many years of fifth-rate boarding houses. And the best of it is, my good aunt, who has had a hard time breasting the world, enjoys it even more than I." The girl did not speak at once. She was distinctly ashamed of herself. Then she broke out quickly: "I see. It was most good of you. I am hasty as an ill-tempered child in my judgments! Mr.
There would be tracks left somewhere, if he could only discover them. If this was a hasty occurrence, in any way an accident, something was sure to be left uncovered, some slip reveal the method. He would trace the movements of the father first, and then search the saloons and gambling dens for the two men. Though unsuccessful with Mrs. Dupont, he knew how to deal with such as they.
For us, freed bondmen, the memorial of deliverance begun by His Cross should be the prophecy of deliverance to be completed at the side of His throne, and the hasty meal, eaten with bitter herbs, the adumbration of the feast when all the pilgrims shall sit with Him at His table in His kingdom. Past, present, and future should all be to us saturated with Jesus Christ.
For Angut, in particular, Rooney felt that powerful attraction which is the result of similar tastes, mutual sympathies, and diversity of character. Rooney had a strong tendency to explain and teach; Angut a stronger tendency to listen and learn. The former was impulsive and hasty; the latter meditative and patient.
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