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The tap of my crutches warned them. She flew back within her door and shut it; Griff strode rapidly on, caught hold of her father's hand, exclaiming, 'Sir, sir, I must speak to you! and dragged him back into the mullion room leaving Clarence and me to convey ourselves downstairs as best we might. 'Our sister, our sweet sister! We were immensely excited.

But I have got to give you more than that." Michael looked up at her. "Yes, Sylvia," he said, "much more than that." A few minutes ago only she had not liked him at all; now she liked him immensely. "But how, Michael?" she asked. "How can I find it?" "Oh, it's I who have got to find it for you," he said. "That is to say, if you want it to be found. Do you?"

The next minute we were gazing tremblingly back to see whether we had been observed, for to lose now the wondrous treasure in our grasp seemed unbearable. But no all was still; and, for my part, I could do nothing but pant with excitement as the truth dawned more upon me with the coming day, that I was by this one stroke immensely rich.

When the fishing party returned that afternoon Miss Fitzroy met them at the hall door. "Well, my dear," she said airily to Mrs. Spicer, "what sort of sport have you had? I've enjoyed myself immensely. I've bought a horse!" Mrs. Spicer sat, paralysed, on the seat of the outside car, disregarding her brother's outstretched hands.

"You must enjoy this immensely, you old hermit," I said to Mac, as the buggy reached the top of a charming hill, overlooking a picture in which the bright green fields, the dark green spruce, the blue sky and the bluer waters were blended. "Yes, I do," replied Mac. "This is Tea Hill.

Claims in respect of levies, fines, requisitions, and so forth might possibly amount to a further $500,000,000. The destruction in France was on an altogether more significant scale, not only as regards the length of the battle line, but also on account of the immensely deeper area of country over which the battle swayed from time to time.

What immensely perplexed me was a sharp, angry sort of rattle, in all quarters, far off and close at hand, and sometimes right at my own back, where it sounded as if the stout fabric of my English surtout had been ruthlessly rent in twain; and everybody's clothes, all over the fair, were evidently being torn asunder in the same way.

Even the professor was growing excited, holding the dynamite gun under one arm while gently tapping palms together as an encore. Naturally enough, their sympathies were with the buffalo, since the odds seemed so immensely against him; but their delight was short-lived, for, instead of following up the advantage so bravely won, the bull fell back to paw and bellow and shake his shaggy front.

I tell you this as an example how in your letters you might write to father more the small events of your life; they amuse him immensely; tell him who has been to see you, whom you have been calling on, what you had for dinner, how the horses are, how the servants behave, if the doors creak and the windows are firm in short, facts and events.

"But my pa you should have known my pa!" Aurora's face brightened immensely, and Gerald suspected that it was like him she looked when she screwed her lips to one side in a manner humorously suggesting a pipe at the corner of her mouth, and said in a voice not her own, "Golly, Nell, can't you whistle for a snifter?" He could almost see a sailor's chin-whiskers.