United States or Cabo Verde ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Johnnie Dunn called them, slipped away from the confines of the hay wagon, and no one missed them till a terrible scream from the crossing bridge announced that one of them had fallen into the creek. Mrs. Martin echoed the scream and called out as she always did in time of disaster, "Oh, Alfred!" And Alfred left his horses and ran to the rescue.
I even overheard one girl say to another, "why, Johnnie Gregory is handsome in that Van Dyke!" "Yes, he has a fine profile ... he looks quite distinguished." Before the curtain for the third act, Jack Travers worked his way back through the props to my dressing room.... "Sh! I've brought a nip of something real for you, Johnnie!" "Bill already has given me some. It's enough!
"You are such a comfort, Christine," she declared one day when the girl handed her back a sock with a dropped stitch deftly picked up. "Your mother is a fortunate woman. I wish I had a daughter like you!" Christina's cheeks grew scarlet, and she was thankful that the clatter of sewing machines and the noise of Mrs. Johnnie Dunn's orders secured them from being overheard.
"Don't rush me off my feet, old-timer," he said gayly. "Gimme a coupla hours to think of it, and I'll let you know what I'll do. This is real sudden, Johnnie. You must 'a' been a terror with the ladies when you was a bachelor. Me, I never kidnaped one before." "Onct in a while you got to play like you're gonna treat 'em rough," said Mr. Green sagely, blushing a trifle nevertheless. "All right.
"I am always imitating the talk I hear in the cottages," he remarked; "I may have lost it so." "Perhaps, as Cray goes to so many places, it may get scattered about," said little Bertram; but he was speedily checked by Johnnie, who observed with severity that they didn't want any "thrimp thauth." "He mutht thimmer," said Johnnie, "thath what he mutht do.
For the rest, the members were encouraged to dance with each other, and find such joy as they might in the supper, and the fact that Miss Sessions paid for a half-day's work for them on the morrow, that they might lie late in bed after a night's pleasuring. Johnnie Consadine had begun to earn money in such quantities as seemed to her economic experience extremely large.
When the matter of the patent was made known to Jerome Hardwick, a company was hastily formed to take hold of it, which advanced the ready money for Johnnie and her family to place themselves. Mrs.
"'That's your suite, just across the hall, sir, Johnnie said. He unlocked the door for the newcomer, who muttered thickly about the hall being d d confusing to a stranger, and gave him a dollar. Johnnie waited until the man had lurched into his rooms, then asked if he wanted ice-water.
The driver was a colored youth in a khaki shirt and an overseas cap, and his wagon was a horseless affair, huge and covered. The colored man, halting his truck to let a cross current of vehicles pass, dazzled Johnnie with a good-natured smile. Johnnie grinned back. "You goin' up Broadway?" he asked, with a jerk of his head toward the north.
For now she rose once more, and though she was trembling, it was only with anger, not with fear. "He can kill me if he wants to!" she cried defiantly. "But he can't make me mind him, and he can't make me stay in this flat!" Then Johnnie knew what he must do: bear himself like the scout he was so soon to be. Also, was he not the son of his father? And his father had been braver than any scout.