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If I live, I will surely come for you in two years." "And the time willna be that lang, for I'll aye be thinking o' you." "Maggie, when the Fife girls give their promise, what do they bind it with?" "They break a sixpence wi' the lad they love, and they each keep a half o' it." He took a sixpence from his pocket and broke it silently in two.
"No, I have not had the pleasure of casting my optics upon the individual of Nancy Ellen's choice," said Agatha primly, "but Miss Amelia Lang tells me he is a very distinguished person, of quite superior education in a medical way. I shall call him if I ever have the misfortune to fall ill again.
Very little real progress bad been made in this direction, up to the time when Commissioner Lang in 1844 visited the tribes now most advanced. So little had been done, that public opinion had acquiesced in the assumption that the Indians were not susceptible of civilization and progress. The few experiments had not been calculated to assure a superficial observer.
When Gregory returned to the Richard with Slade and Hawkins he found Dickie Lang huddled close beside the crumpled figure of his captive. The girl was sobbing softly as she listened to the whispered words of the little Mexican. Feeling his way to her side, he placed an arm about her, and drawing her away from the other man, waited for her to speak. Then she explained in a voice shaken by tears.
Oh, Miss " No: somehow he could not lay his tongue to that "Miss Brown." "I can't spend all my life in Lang Marsh," said she. "Agatha," he burst out. "No, no. This is not the last time. Sha'n't we keep that?" she asked, with a provokingly light-hearted smile. "You promise to be here to-morrow?" "Oh, yes." "I shall have something to say to you then," Charlie announced with a significant air.
"Cosmo, we're ower lang ohn thankit. Come here, my son; gang down upo' yer knees, an lat's say to the Lord what we're thinkin'." Cosmo obeyed, and knelt at his father's knee, and his father laid his hand upon his head that so they might pray more in one.
Andrew Lang suggests in an exquisite little poem about the Homeric Phæacia the land whose inhabitants were friends of the gods, a sort of heaven upon earth." And then she quoted: The languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas; The wide fire flames as a flower uncloses; Heavy with odour and loose to the breeze.
"Well there, you need not fret; of course I know you must have some natural affection for your mother," returned Laura carelessly. "Here, sit down on this stool at my feet, and you shall hear about my change of plans. "Mrs. Lang called to tell me they are going to Europe will sail in a fortnight and to ask me to accompany them; and I have accepted the invitation.
To 203 Broadway from all over the Union flocked a swarm of showmen, cranks, and particularly of old operators, who, the seedier they were in appearance, the more insistent they were that "Tom" should give them, for the sake of "Auld lang syne," this chance to make a fortune for him and for themselves.
The tall crags cast their irregular shadows athwart the cove and a sudden puff of wind, which had freshened as the day wore on, ruffled the quiet waters and caused them to slap angrily at the base of the ledge. Dickie Lang cast a weather-eye to seaward and shook her head. "Time we were getting in the clear, boys," she said. "The tide's beginning to set in strong and the breeze is freshening.
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