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For some reason George Baker was considerably interested in that island. There were many other islands in the lake, but this one had come to hold a sort of fascination for him. "I don't believe they are over there," reflected George. "We should have seen them yesterday if they had been," answered Billy Gordon. "It's a jolly place, though. We'll come over here and camp when we get ready.
"A farce?" put in his comrade. "No, a tragedy, or comedy as Moliere wrote it." "And how is that?" I asked, interested and somewhat surprised at the tone of my contemporary. "Where the play ends in the triumph of the wittiest rogue. My friend here has no chance!" "'Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley, hem yes, Hal Peacock may be witty, but he is no rogue."
The Polynesian Mission on which John Williams was sent, had been commenced in 1796 by the London Missionary Society, partly in consequence of the death-bed entreaties of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, who had been exceedingly interested by the accounts of the South Sea Islands in Captain Cook's Voyages.
The loss of your society don't mistake me, I never flatter is a chief one. Some of your views and plans interested me much.
Miss J. had taken a lesson on the organ in the afternoon and was all interested in making progress on that instrument, assuring her friends who declared she would never practise her lessons, that she certainly would do so, as they would afterwards learn.
Meyrick, who, in her way, was as much interested as Mab in the hints she had been hearing of vicissitude in in the life of a widow with daughters.
Depend upon it, your highness, if you wish to discover more than other people can, it is necessary to be "up in the clouds." "Very true," replied the pacha, "but go on." I was very much interested in the chemical process of turning the salt water into fresh, which was going on with great rapidity while I was there.
In the light of present knowledge what a cautious and exact statement is that! There being no learned society in all America at the time, Franklin's scientific experiments were almost all recorded in letters written to interested friends; and he was never in any haste to write these letters.
Get up close, but don't say you're going to play; just pretend you're getting interested. Then when you're dead sure of a card, crack your fist down on it. Glue yourself right to it, and get out your money with the other hand.
In front of her stood the Brat, deeply interested in the operation, his curly head bent, his childish little hands on his hips. He was talking and laughing gaily; but at the sound of footsteps in the passage he glanced up, and, seeing me, stared in haughty surprise, which tipped the scales towards anger.
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