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He advances his foreleg, and exposes to view a small spot, denuded of hair, just behind the point of his shoulder; upon this the hunter brings the sight of his rifle to bear; lightly and delicately his finger presses upon the hair-trigger. Quick as thought the spiteful crack of the rifle responds to his slight touch, and instantly in the middle of the bare spot appears a small red dot.
'Of course I knew it couldn't make any real difference to you the way I behaved. Only I don't like you to be even a little cross with me. 'I'm not not even a little, she said. 'We are friends then, really friends? His smile sustained and reassured her. Surely he had not seen if he could smile like that ever so lightly, so merrily, and so gravely too. Courage came back to her.
But still worse was his lack of faith in my writing. I was making four hundred dollars a month, and it was a most unpleasant jolt to have it taken so lightly. I went down to Sue. As I came into the living room she met me suddenly at the door. In a moment her arms were about my neck and she was saying softly: "I know what it is, dear, and I'm glad I'm awfully glad.
Boil it hard for twenty minutes, then take it off the fire, and pour off all the water that remains. Set the pot in the chimney corner with the lid off, while dinner is dishing, that it may have time to dry. You may toss it up lightly with two forks, to separate the grains while it is drying, but do not stir it with a spoon.
But observe that to prevent its being lost in the freedom of space, we must attach it lightly to earth; and observe again, my dear, that the higher it soars, the more string we must give it." When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent.
"Do let us go and rescue Bertie," she said, "before we get swallowed up in the crowd." He got up at once and silently offered his arm. She slipped her hand within it, and gave it a little squeeze. "We'll dance to the finale next time," she said lightly. "It's much more fun than talking." She added carelessly, as they moved away together: "By the way, I had my photograph taken this morning.
And at least it educated me in one thing; how to read newspapers." He laughed lightly. "Perhaps that is as nearly thorough an education as I've ever had in anything." "It's rather an art, newspaper reading," observed Banneker. "You've tried it, I gather. So have I, rather exhaustively in the last year. I've been reading every paper in New York every day and all through."
"What a perfectly gruesome subject for tea-table talk," he said lightly, and beckoned the head-waiter. "You are keeping us waiting, Jaques." "Doctor, it will be but a few minutes," pleaded the waiter, and then in a low voice, which was not so low that it did not reach the girl. "We have had some trouble this afternoon, doctor, with your friend." "My friend?" The doctor looked up sharply.
Priscilla had leaped up more lightly than the rest of us, and ran along in advance, with as much airy activity of spirit as was typified in the motion of a bird, which chanced to be flitting from tree to tree, in the same direction as herself. Never did she seem so happy as that afternoon. She skipt, and could not help it, from very playfulness of heart.
In her intense anxiety to relate to her husband the scene which had just occurred, she could not take time to go round and through the gate, but leaped lightly over the low fence that divided the gardens, and rushed precipitately into the presence of her husband. "Good heavens! George, what do you think?" she exclaimed; "I've had such a surprise!"
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