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'Oh yes, said Lawford wearily; 'I have discovered that infinitely worse things are infinitely commoner. But that there's nothing quite so picturesque. 'Tell me, said Sheila, with refreshing naivete. 'How does it feel? does it even in the slightest degree affect your mind? He turned his back and looked up at his broad gilt portrait for inspiration. 'Practically, not at all, he said hollowly.
"Waal this is a ghost story and ghosts don't move fast." "Ho! ho!" laughed Bellew hollowly. "As I was sayin', grandpop didn't like the idee of some night seeing a tall form, all in white, come gliding down among them tombstones, and raising its hand cry to him in a solemn voice " "Wow." The shout came from Summers. He had suddenly felt something light on his shoulder.
I know you will make a fortune out of your next play, and I've heaps for us both to live on till you make good. We can manage splendidly on my salary from the Evening Chronicle. 'What! Have you got a job on a New York paper? 'Yes, I told you about it. I am doing Heloise Milton. Why, what's the matter? He groaned hollowly. 'And I was thinking that you would come back to Chicago with me!
The old house, with its great stone staircase, echoed hollowly to the sound of typewriters and of errand-boys from ten to six.
We could have his disgrace break their hearts, and kill two birds with one stone, and avenge a long-suffering race of playwrights upon stage-lovers." The actor laughed like a man of small humor, mellowly, but hollowly. "No, no! We must have the love-affair end happily. You can manage that somehow. Have you got the play roughed out at all?" "Not in manuscript.
Little used to remain at the tea table to administer instruction, not, let us hope, as Maria averred, to watch Harvey so he wouldn't eat so much. "Harvey," she asked, on one occasion, "are you not thankful that the Lord has given you so good a home?" "Yes, Mis' Little, keeps me pretty busy though to earn it," came hollowly from the depths of a teacup.
The two of them gave themselves up readily. They are snug in the Stein-schloss by this time." "The Stein-schloss!" Gretchen blanched. "Holy Mother, what has happened?" "Why, your vintner and Herr Ludwig were arrested an hour ago, accused of being spies from Jugendheit." "It is a lie!" cried Gretchen hollowly. She groped blindly for the door. "Where are you going, Gretchen?"
What girl wouldn't be rummy at breakfast, tied for life to a ghastly outsider like himself? He groaned hollowly, and sagged forlornly in his chair: and, as he did so, the Venus caught his eye. For it was an eye-catching picture. You might like it or dislike it, but you could not ignore it.
The engine shrieked warningly at intervals, the train rumbled hollowly over short bridges and across pikes, swung round the hills, and plunged with wild warnings past little towns hid in the snow, with only here and there a light shining dimly. One of the drummers now and then rose up from his cramped bed on the seats, and swore dreadfully at the railway company for not heating the cars.
Moran was at the wheel, her scowl thicker than ever, her eyes measuring the stretch of water that lay between the schooner and the shore. "She'll never make it in God's world," she muttered as she listened to the wash of the water in the cabin under her feet. In the hold, empty barrels were afloat, knocking hollowly against each other. "We're in a bad way, mate."
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