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Pan Erh got, in the absence of his grandmother, so distressed that he melted into tears. "May she not have fallen into the place?" one and all laughingly observed. "Be quick and tell some one to go and have a look!" Two matrons were directed to go in search of her; but they returned and reported that she was not to be found.
Maud returned with the letter, and the question was settled. Mr. Hilary Forester had written from Galveston, Texas, and his wife was relieved when the others laughingly assured her that he was not amongst savages or wild beasts, and that the arrangement of the seasons was much the same as in England. There was to be a real party at Braeside on Twelfth Night.
As they rode away from the school-house Margaret looked back and saw Rosa Rogers posing in one of her sprite dances in the school-yard, saw her kiss her hand laughingly toward their party, and saw the flutter of a handkerchief in young Forsythe's hand. It was all very general and elusive, a passing bit of fun, but it left an uncomfortable impression on the teacher's mind.
"You don't know what good times we had does she, Polly?" and then he launched out into a perfect shower of "Don't you remember this?" or "Oh, Polly! you surely haven't forgotten that!" Mrs. Whitney good naturedly entering into it and enjoying it all with them, until, warned by the lateness of the hour, she laughingly reminded Jasper of dinner, and dismissed him to prepare for it.
She was only cross with me when I surprised her in the potting-shed wearing an old bonnet out of which hung a faded poppy. She used to cry: "Don't look at me, Kant. I know I'm like an old gipsy woman." "You look charming," I said, "in that old bonnet." She put down the watering-can and laughingly took it from her head. "It is a regular show." "Not at all.
Look at this!" And he pointed exultantly to the noble pile of treasure. "Well, what is it, Dick? It looks like a number of very old boxes. Have you come upon a pirate's hoard? as you ought to do, you know, in such a cunningly concealed cavern as this," exclaimed Flora, laughingly, as she peered inquisitively at the pile that even now she could only see very imperfectly. "Ay," answered Dick.
One of them was the other day telling me of the excessive admiration people had always shown, and laughingly insisted that when papa was a young man, and appeared in public, in London or Paris, it was between two police officers to keep off the admiring crowd; and," laughing a gay little laugh herself, "of course I believed him! why shouldn't I?" He was looking at the picture again.
'But desert air, desert air! "He shook his head, half wistfully, half laughingly, bowed, put on his broad-brimmed black hat, and went out. "After a moment I followed him. I stood in the doorway of the inn, and lit a cigar. I knew Marnier was not going to bed, and meant to catch him when he came out, and join him.
And when, one day, his friend depicted the immensity of the great salmon drives of the Alaskan rivers, the lad grew so excited that the lieutenant laughingly told him he expected some fine morning to find that he had jumped overboard and had started swimming for the Ugashik River or some other of the famous salmon streams of Alaska.
"Oh, that's different!" she exclaimed, as though that somehow brought him nearer to her own people. "It is, isn't it?" he laughingly agreed. "But Enderby I suppose his pedigree goes back to Cedric and his swineherds. You can't change that kind." "I hadn't the least thought of seeing you here. How did you happen to come?" "Redfield telephoned me at the mill, and I came at once.
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