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The baby was turned over to Nurse Nannie, and the other three tumbled into their wraps and ran out of doors to play off some of their exuberant enthusiasm. "It's been a gay old week, hasn't it?" said Marjorie, on New Year's Eve. "You bet!" cried King, who sometimes lapsed from the most approved diction. "Wish it was just beginning.
It's only that he is so much younger." Edith lapsed into silence. She was very quiet for the rest of that summer morning. Just before dinner she went across the west pasture to Doctor Bennett's house, and, hailing Johnny, told him the news.
"Oh!" And Allie lapsed into silence again. "What made you ask, Allie?" her mother inquired, after a pause. "Nothing; only Mrs. Pennypoker said somebody told her he was very rich, and that was the reason you'd let him come here, so maybe we could get some of it; and she asked Mrs. Pennypoker if she hadn't seen the way I hadn't had so much to do with Ned and Marjorie since he'd been here, and all.
It was noticeable that in these rambling soliloquies his English seemed to recrudesce into better construction and phraseology. But when he talked directly with the boys it lapsed, largely, into their own uncouth and simpler forms. "But there weren't many crabs in those days," the old man wandered on. "They were fished out, and they were great delicacies.
On separating, it is pleasant to notice, the friends exchanged keepsakes. The four years had lapsed quietly and quickly by, and Hawthorne, who now adopted the fanciful spelling of the name after his personal whim, was man grown.
Rostov was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood.
"You are indebted to several," was the reply. "But Miss Sinclair has been the most active." "So I imagined," was all Jasper said and he once more lapsed into a silence which he did not break until the car drew up before Mr. Westcote's office. He knew now that Lois cared for him, and his heart thrilled with joy as he thought of the efforts she had made on his behalf.
I do not mean it so, and will quietly cry myself to sleep if you insist." "Indeed, Hilda," said Roland, laughing, and abandoning the more formal title of "madam," "I am no such tyrant as you suppose. Besides, your office of first lieutenant has lapsed, because our men have all gone south, while we travel north." "Then may I talk with you?" "Nothing would please me better.
She lapsed into silence, as though she had already said too much. "And I know I'm right," she added at length. "I daresay you are. . . . You see, I've never regarded Barbara as anything but a wonderful friend. We casually dropped into an extraordinary intimacy " "It's been too easy, too casual!" she cried. "You've taken it as a matter of course.
Meanwhile we have lost a very valuable though very iniquitous concession, merely because we, but not the Americans, prefer what is old and corrupt to what is vigorous and honest. I understand, moreover, that the Shank agreement lapsed because Mr. Shank could not raise the necessary capital.
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