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Duncan, when finally he could be heard. "Excellent, for we don't want you young mischiefs in the parlor at all, seeing your presents the day before; and the only one I know who could keep you out is Peter. Splendid idea of yours, Mary. Boys, it's these mothers who have the real Christmas things in their hearts." "Yes, and in the oven, too!" laughed Mrs.
By and by the first rays of light began to spread up the sky from the eastern horizon, and the earth seemed to wake very softly and look in that direction. With the light came a breath from the east, cool as a hand on the brow of fever. Twittering of sleepy chickadees were heard among the pines, and out in the lake a loon laughed. Day came with a swoop up the lake.
"What was it?" asked Billy. "He said: 'I've lost one eye and a piece of an ear, but I can lick a brigade or two yet," answered Bart. "Good old scout," approved Billy, while the boys laughed. "Well, we're not as badly off as that yet," said Frank, "although this hand of mine is smarting to beat the band." "And my head is aching ready to split," added Billy.
"He acted like one." "Who is he?" asked Ned of Jack, pointing toward Hans, who now sat on the sand with his knees hunched up in his hands. "That's Hans," laughed Jack. Hans threw out his hand in Boy Scout salute. "Owl Padrol, Philadelphia!" he said. "Looks like an Owl, eh?" asked Jack. "He is an Owl!" roared the Englishman.
In my country, night after night have I lain in snow with only my plaid for cover, and heard the spirits call in the icy wind, the kelpie shriek beneath the frozen loch. I listened; then shut my eyes and dreamed warm of glory and true love." "Thy coat is new," said Truelove, with downcast eyes. "The earth will stain the good cloth." MacLean laughed.
"Most charming, certainly, but scarcely such a child. She is seventeen, you know, my dear signora." "Seventeen! Santo Dio! And what is one at seventeen but an innocent, playful, charming little kitten?" "You are always right, madame," agreed the signorino, but he looked as if he thought she were very wrong. "Of course I am right," laughed the little lady.
I reckon the boys are grateful to me for scattering my lead so promiscuous." "I heard one say he would like to lam your haid tenderly," murmured McWilliams. "With a two-by-four, I suppose," laughed Bannister. "Shouldn't wonder.
"I was sure you had done that, but I feared you would turn the barge back to Frankfort." "I never thought of such a thing. Indeed, the captain told me he met difficulty enough navigating the shallow Main, and I think he prefers the deeper Rhine. Of course, you know why I left you." The men looked at each other without reply, and Roland laughed.
He laughed, but that night after Elmira was fast asleep in her chamber across the way, he lay awake tasting to the fullest his own cup of bitterness from its contrast with another's sweet. The longing to see Lucina, to have only the sight of her dear beautiful face to comfort him, grew as the weeks went on, but he would not yield to it.
"Tut, tut, thou silly lad!" laughed Carew, frankly; "am I thy friend for naught? What! let thee walk all the way to Coventry, and never see the play? Nay, on my soul! Why, Nick, I love thee, lad; and I'll do for thee in the twinkling of an eye. Canst thou speak lines by heart? Well, then, say these few after me, and bear them in thy mind."
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