United States or Greece ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I have suffered a good man to place his whole faith upon it, a man who loves me with his whole soul." "But, Mary, you do not love him. That is impossible!" said James, holding her off from him, and looking at her with an agonized eagerness. "After what you have just said, it is not possible." "Oh, James!
Suddenly Harry's eye rested on the label of the half-empty phial, and he uttered a loud, prolonged cheer. "It's only tincture of " "Wild cats and furies!" cried Mr Kennedy, turning sharply round and seizing Harry by the collar, "why d'you kick up such a row, eh?" "It's only tincture of rhubarb," repeated the boy, disengaging himself and holding up the phial triumphantly.
For it was Miss Oman who stalked in, holding out a blue foolscap envelope with a warlike air as if it were an ultimatum. "I've brought you this from Mr. Bellingham," she said. "There's a note inside." "May I read the note, Miss Oman?" I asked. "Bless the man!" she exclaimed. "What else would you do with it? Isn't that what it's brought for?"
"I ask you to come on any terms, my Karen. And because I love you; because you will always be the thing dearest in the world to me." "I could go to Frau Lippheim, if you would help to send me to her," said Karen, still holding her hand to her head; "I could, I am sure, explain to her and to Franz so that they would not blame me. But people must not think that I hate you." "No; no?"
You, you small swab, I can see by the way you're holding it that you've never had a revolver in your fist before this day, much less fired one at a 'live mark. Put the thing back in your pocket, and behave like a rational being." "I shall do nothing of the kind," said Weems, sticking up his left arm, and sighting the pistol over the elbow-joint.
Then he brought his 'and up and tried to wipe the mud off and see wot he 'ad got. "Wot is it?" I ses, with a nasty sinking sort o' feeling inside me. "I don't know," he ses, going on wiping. "It's soft outside and 'ard inside. It " "Let's 'ave a look at it," I ses, holding out my 'and. "It's nothing," he ses, in a queer voice, getting up and steering for the ladder. "Bit of oyster-shell, I think."
When, however, they saw me holding out the handkerchief in my right hand, they suspected that I was not inclined for war, and their confidence immediately returning, they once more advanced towards me. I again presented my rifle and they halted.
Lorimer, in Bobby Dane's cab and under the lash of Bobby's energetic tongue, was out of Thayer's way; but, as Thayer stood looking down at the face, whiter than the fluffy white fur of her cloak, he had felt a momentary longing to take Beatrix into his arms and, holding her there, to protect her from Lorimer and from the danger that was threatening her whole happiness.
The boys here Bob Scott and some of the stage-guards put it up to me. I thought we could trim them by running in a real gunman. I wired to Medicine Bend for Henry. Henry comes up last night with a brand-new rifle, presented, I imagine, by the Medicine Bend Black Hand Local, No. 13. This is the gun," explained Lefever feebly, holding forth the exhibit.
"I always travel with the right sort," he remarked, holding the golden liquid up to the light. "It's safer and it saves any trouble with orders after closing-time.... These English hotels, you know !" So saying he dispensed whisky and cigarettes, there being a siphon and glasses, and three matches in a match-stand, on the table. "Here's looking!" he said, with raised glass.
Word Of The Day