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All at once he stopped and began to caper about her. Then he broke into barking again, this time with a note of recognition and delight, shot into the house and came back, still barking, and making a circle of joyful salutation in the darkness round her. Quaking with fear of instant discovery, she crept under the old tree and waited. Nobody came from the house.
"She's right in the wind's eye of us, sir, and our flags are blowing end on from her." "There goes up her bunting, sir," cried the first mate. "English, as I said. The commodore is answering, sir. Up with the ensign there abaft. All's right, tell the ladies." "I will; I'll go and inform them," said the colonel; who immediately descended to impart the joyful intelligence.
World and Miss Church-Member. There was a joyful meeting in the reception room of the Hospital when Mr. World, returning from his underground experiences, met his beloved friend Miss Church-Member who had recovered sufficiently to resume the journey. In joyful spirits they sauntered forth on the wide and pleasant path, away from the Hospital and toward their imaginary Heaven.
This joyful greeting from Dido was not to be returned from the door only.
Ben's heart beat with joyful excitement as he read this letter. It could not have come at a better time, for, as we know, he was out of employment, and, of course, earning nothing. "Well, Ben," said the postmaster, whose curiosity was excited, is it good news?" "I should say it was," said Ben emphatically. "I am offered a good situation in New York." "You don't say so! How much are offered?"
Attwater, stripped to his trousers, and lending a strong hand of help, was directing and encouraging five Kanakas; from his lively voice, and their more lively efforts, it was to be gathered that some sudden and joyful emergency had set them in this bustle; and the Union Jack floated once more on its staff.
Out he came to fluff the newfound wings awhile, and when they were spread and supple he flew into the joyful night, one of the noblest of all the things that fly, gorgeous in gold and velvet, body and wings; filled with the joy of life and flight, he went careering through the soft splendour of the coming night.
Already the fires of St. John have flamed, joyful and red in a clear, blue night, and the Spanish mountain seemed to burn, that night, like a sheaf of straw, so many were the bonfires lighted on its sides. It has begun, the season of light, of heat and of storms, at the end of which Ramuntcho must depart.
It was the little robber-maiden, who had got tired of staying at home; she was going first to the north, and if that did not suit her, she meant to try some other part of the world. She knew Gerda directly, and Gerda remembered her: it was a joyful meeting.
Yet in the midst of its pleasure it felt a desire, a longing that all the other trees in the wood beneath all the bushes, plants, and flowers might be able to lift themselves like it, and to participate in its joyful and triumphant feelings.
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