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Why, Janice, I might break down and make a complete fool of myself." "Oh, no, Nelson!" "I might. Even the children will know all about it and will stare at me. I have to face them on Monday morning, and by that time I may have recovered sufficient self-possession to ignore their glances and whispers." And with that decision Janice was obliged to leave him. "The poor, foolish boy!" Aunt 'Mira said.
From the midsummer of 1780, when the "Journal to Mira" comes to an end, to the February or March of the following year, there is a blank in the Biography which the son was unable to fill. At the time the fragment of Diary closes, Crabbe was apparently at the very end of his resources. He had pawned all his personal property, his books and his surgical implements, and was still in debt.
Janice slid down the ladder, found the little three-fingered weeder, and went to work upon the rich mould around the roots of the vines the sweet peas and morning glories that would soon be blooming in abundance. Before Aunt 'Mira and Marty were up, the pump was working in fine style. Uncle Jason had taken an abundance of water out to the cattle.
Instead, he sank to the rocky floor and meditatively drew from his belt the beloved corncob pipe. Troubled, Mira went about the preparation of their evening meal with a plaintive quietness. Juno, too, seemed oppressed, for after a tentative wriggle of her stump of a tail she settled back on her haunches, eyes fixed on her mistress.
The dear bishop gone!" screamed Lady Carwitchet from the central ottoman where she sat, surrounded by most of the gentlemen, all apparently well entertained by her conversation. "And I wanted to talk over old times with him so badly. His poor wife was my greatest friend. Mira Montanaro, daughter of the great banker, you know.
What rose so strange the wond'ring waters flushed? Heaven's hand, oh guests; heaven's hand may here be known; The spring's coy nymph has seen her God and blushed. "Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequutaest." Camden's Remains , p. 351. 'When Mr. Hume began to be known in the world as a philosopher, Mr. White, a decent, rich merchant of London, said to him: "I am surprised, Mr.
He could not face what the law would demand of him Mira would not live through it. Imprisonment disgrace death to all the hopes that had sustained them both since his recovery! On the trail of the unsuspecting Policeman he crept, and his face was grim and gaunt. Where the river bottom ran more level, Mahon halted and looked about with a more general interest.
From Hevelius this first-known periodical star received the name of "Mira," or the Wonderful, and Boulliaud in 1667 fixed the length of its cycle of change at 334 days. It was not a solitary instance. A star in the Swan was perceived by Janson in 1600 to show fluctuations of light, and Montanari found in 1669 that Algol in Perseus shared the same peculiarity to a marked degree.
She was sitting with Aunt 'Mira on the side porch before supper, while the "short bread" was baking and Uncle Jason and Marty were at the chores, when Walky Dexter drew near with his now all but empty wagon, and stopped in the lane to bring in a new cultivator Uncle Jason had sent for. "Evenin', Miz' Day," observed Walky, eyeing Aunt 'Mira and her niece askance. "Naow say it!" "Say what, Mr.
"But the canoe?" she objected, when Andrea motioned for her to disrobe. "It will soon be here!" "Canoa?" From the one word Andrea caught her meaning. "No hay tiempo. Mira!" Leaning out, Ethel looked and shrank back, her inexperience convinced by a single glance at the wall. She assisted the strong hands to rip away her encumbering skirts.
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