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I only wish Gerald were with him; the lad's thrown a good chance away, but he was so bent on joining the Royal Navy that I hadn't the heart to hinder him, though I might have been wiser to do so." Thus the old captain ran on, his remarks contributing not a little to calm his daughter's feelings and to induce her to look forward hopefully to the future.
Dulcie was almost reconciled to let Will go; for he would be more at home in the spirit-world than here, and she had seen sore trouble, which taught her to acquiesce, when there were a Father and a Friend seen glimmeringly but hopefully beyond the gulf. Dulcie moved about, with her child holding by her skirts, resigned and helpful in her sorrow. The most clouded faces in the old room in St.
"Will you tell me where you spent the evening, and with whom?" Fremont told of the meeting of the Black Bear Patrol, of the plans which had been made at the club-room, and of his parting with Frank Shaw at the corner. "Frank will know what time it was when he left me," said the boy, hopefully, "and the taxicab driver will know what time it was when he left me at the door of the building.
I'll take the responsibility of closing the library for to-day, and I'd like a private talk with this young gentleman, if you are willing." Elsmere's eyes brightened. "Will you pank me?" he asked hopefully. "Dr. Helen pank me when I eat pills. So!" In his effort to illustrate, he bent so nearly double that he fell over on his nose, and set it bleeding.
"The ceremony of opening the morning's letters at Harrod's ought to be full of interest and excitement to-morrow," I said. This dashing counter-stroke seemed to relieve Ukridge. His pessimism vanished. He seldom looked on the dark side of things for long at a time. He began now to speak hopefully of the future. He planned out ingenious improvements.
In a recent letter dictated at Walsingham, where Abigail Becker now lives, a widow, cultivating with her own hands her little farm in the wilderness, she speaks gratefully of the past and hopefully of the future.
"I was shocked to hear of your accident, but it was some time ago, and you are recovering," she remarked, trying to speak hopefully, but with a catch in her breath. "I am dying," was the answer, and Millicent sobbed when the withered fingers rested on her hair. "I wanted to see you before I went. I was fond of you, Milly, and you you and Geoffrey angered me.
I suggest that you call up Ford & Carter and see what they have to say about it." "I wonder whether the Examiner reporter has a tip on this?" the Chronicle man queried hopefully. "Not from me. This story is for you, young man. That's why I called you down to my office."
There was a very decided change in the atmosphere of Mrs. Hoden's home, and I saw that for her the worst was past, and she was bravely, hopefully facing the future. From there, I hurried to the main street of Linrock and to that section where violence brooded, ready at any chance moment to lift its hydra head. For that time of day the street seemed unusually quiet.
Crawford himself was wonderfully happy; he would not let any thought of the past darken his heart. He looked forward as hopefully as if he were yet on the threshold of life. O mystery of life! from what depths proceed thy comforts and thy lessons! One morning at very early dawn Crawford awoke from a deep sleep in an indescribable awe.
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