United States or British Virgin Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Guthrie Carey, in the waiting pony-carriage, had but one interest in the performance his hopeful anticipation of a fatal, or at least a ridiculous, result. But there was no fear of that, and evidently Deb knew it. Sitting her own dancing chestnut, how her beautiful eyes glowed! She gloried in the ring of breathless witnesses to the prowess of her knight.
Or, if we cast our eyes forward to the calamities that lie still 'on the knees of the gods' for us, do we feel ready to meet the hours of desolating disaster, the 'hour of death and the day of judgment'? Even in a land of peace we have all had alarms, perturbations, and defeats enough, and our security has been at the mercy of marauders so often that if we are wise, and take due heed of what experience has to say to us of our reserve of force, we shall not be hopeful of keeping our footing in the whirling currents of a river in full flood.
What in the name of common sense is the use of prognosticating evil, when good is just as likely to come?" "Huh! I'm consid'able older than you, young man," retorted the sharpshooter, perversely. "All the more reason you should be more hopeful. What's happened to you besides these external troubles? Something on your own account, eh?
"Up to the last day he was hopeful of getting well, and none of us felt specially concerned about him. The doctor came and went with words of cheer, and I was making preparations to go home, when the unexpected summons came. His pain seemed suddenly to change to the region of his heart, and I heard him say to Fanny, ''Tween you an me, Fanny, the pain is in my heart.
Did I consider how little suited I was to her sprightly humour, and how wearisome a plodding man like me must be, to one of her quick spirit? Did I consider that it was no merit in me, or claim in me, that I loved her, when everybody must, who knew her? Never. I took advantage of her hopeful nature and her cheerful disposition; and I married her. I wish I never had! For her sake; not for mine!
Been here a couple of days, never struck me at the time it was you, never dawned on me until I saw you at the desk, then I remembered your name." "Mail for me?" asked Trask. "Why, nobody knows I'm in Manila. I'm supposed to be up in Korea." "Not mail, precisely, sir. It was left here a few days ago." "Who left it?" Trask was suddenly hopeful. "Can't say, sir. I found it on the desk.
The Doctor looked more hopeful. He was thinking that after all he might make something of his strange parishioner, when the young lady recalled him by a repetition of her former declaration, "As I said, I have no religious prejudices!" "No," said the Doctor a little sharply for him, "but still each one of us ought to be fully persuaded in his own mind."
Altogether, my state of mind may be better imagined than described; still, always hopeful, I continued to hope, in spite of the appearance of things, that they would all turn up right at last. I spoke to the chief on another subject. I was not altogether satisfied as to the way in which he intended to treat his prisoner, and he did not seem at all disposed to enlighten me.
I stayed all night at Long Branch, and I had a bath the next morning before breakfast: an extremely cold one, with a life-line to keep me against the undertow. In this rite I had the company of a young New-Yorker, whom I had met on the boat coming down, and who was of the light, hopeful, adventurous business type which seems peculiar to the city, and which has always attracted me.
At the sight of the river Christian and Hopeful were stunned, but the men that went with them said, "You must go through, or you cannot come in at the gate." The pilgrims then, especially Christian, began to be afraid, and looked this way and that way, but could find no way by which to escape the river.
Word Of The Day