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The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise. It set me thinking of all the other things that could happen to a man out and about on a velocipede without a lamp after lighting-up time.
When lighting-up time came it was naturally tired, and wanted a rest." "It was a bit irritating, that lamp," he murmured; "I remember it." I said: "It irritated me; it must have been worse for you. Then there are saddles," I went on I wished to get this lesson home to him. "Can you think of any saddle ever advertised that you have not tried?"
She stood up, and the heavy fur coat slipped easily away from her slim, elegant little body. "Shall I light up, your ladyship?" Mills enquired. "You might light a lamp," Philippa directed, "but don't draw the blinds until lighting-up time. After the noise of London," she went on, turning to Helen, "I always think that the faint sound of the sea is so restful."
'Now let us decide upon our route, exclaimed Barmby, with the air of a popular leader planning a great demonstration. 'Miss. Lord, we will be directed by your wishes. Where would you like to be when the lighting-up begins? 'I don't care. What does it matter? Let us go straight on and see whatever comes in our way. 'That's the right spirit! Let us give ourselves up to the occasion!
And his mother laughed; but I saw all her features were trembling with emotion. "He will not be exactly a boy now. I wonder if we shall find him much changed." "Very likely. Brown, with a great beard; he said so in one of his letters. I shall hardly know my boy again." With a lighting-up of the eye that furnished a flat contradiction to the mother's statement. "Here are some of Mrs.
The white frock did not become her brown neck and arms, her thick black hair was arranged in too womanly a manner, and her head and face looked too large; moreover, there was no lighting-up to answer the greeting, and Albinia was disappointed. Poor child, she thought, she is feeling deeply that I am an interloper, it will be different now her father is coming. Mr.
Owing to this, Smeaton could not get off to be at the lighting-up of his own building. From the shore, however, he beheld its initiative gleam as it opened its bright eye to the reality of its grand position, and we can well believe that his hardy, persevering spirit exulted that night over the success of his labours.
The prospect of going on the Riviera sounded delightful. After our late luncheon we ran back from Hitchin to London, but, not arriving before lighting-up time, we had to turn on the head-lights beyond Barnet.
Mavick that the season was so frigid, its glacial stateliness only now and then breaking out in an illuminating burst of festivity, like the lighting-up of a Montreal ice-palace. Her spacious house was always open, and her efforts, in charity enterprises and novel entertainments, were untiring to stimulate a circulation in the languid body of society.
Penn," she began, with a quiver of distress in her voice, "you must have known a young lady who lived with her. Her name was Meta." "Yes, we knew her," he answered quietly. "Are you a relation of hers?" "No." Elsie turned to him with a sudden lighting-up of her face. "But she is a great deal to me! And you really knew her?" "We knew her," he repeated, "while she lived. Her story was a sad one.
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