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Thus a little boy can conquer even greater dragons than the monsters vast of ages past." "Hum!" said Helmut musingly, "mother, dear, I was a real hero to-day, I think you would have been proud of me; but I must confess between ourselves, that the old dragon was a bit of a fool!" It is curious how little children of one country know about the lives and interests of the children of another.
At the same time, the attractions of the life which she knew he could give her, and for which she longed so passionately, with the relief of the thought that her parents would not need to sacrifice themselves for her, were potent factors in the power of Lawrence Knight's appeal. "It would be wonderful," she said musingly. "I have dreamed and dreamed about such things."
The boys went outside and for a moment sat down on the ground to rest. "What do you suppose made him do that?" said Velo musingly. "Do what?" asked Zaidos. "Why," said Velo, "I asked what his name was one night and he said John Smith. I think that old doctor is making a mistake." "What does it matter?" said Zaidos.
"It must have been the detective that came to see Mrs. Rogers," said Tom, musingly. "She told me a strange man had been there from Mr. Forbes, to inquire all about Lucy." "Yes; he makes a report to me every evening," remarked Kenneth; "and Mr. Burke says this is the most mystifying case he has ever encountered. So far there isn't a clew to follow.
And now it may go to press as soon as you will." Congratulations poured in; my father bore them with his usual equanimity; and standing on the hearth, his hand in his waistcoat, he said, musingly, "Among the last delusions of Human Error I have had to notice Rousseau's phantasy of Perpetual Peace, and all the like pastoral dreams, which preceded the bloodiest wars that have convulsed the earth for more than a thousand years!"
'But when I think of it, I fear I may have been rude, for the bare proposal of selling this Naboth's vineyard of mine would go far to make me rude to any man alive. It sounds like an invitation to dishonour myself in the eyes of my ancestors. 'Ah! you do care about your ancestors? he said, half musingly, and looking into his hat. 'Of course I do. Who is there does not?
'The river winds to within a five minutes' walk of Dianet; we could go by boat, Renee said musingly. 'I thought of the boat. But does it not give the man a triumph that we should seem to try to elude him? What matter! Still, I do not like him to be the falcon, and Nevil Beauchamp the . . . little bird. So it is, because we began badly, Agnes! 'Was it my fault? 'Mine.
On the veranda of his old-fashioned home, John Cardigan sat tapping the floor with his stick and dreaming dreams which, for the first time in many years, were rose-tinted. Beside him Shirley sat, her glance bent musingly out across the roofs of Sequoia and on to the bay shore, where the smoke and exhaust-steam floated up from two sawmills her own and Bryce Cardigan's.
They listened with great interest until the recital was finished, and then Jones said, musingly, "It must be that you are the same of whom we heard so much, more than a year ago, although your friends believed you had perished by the cruel hands of the Indians." "Then you have seen them! Are they well?
His are more respectable than mine, that's all." Musingly, as if to herself, she added: "I don't think, Will, that there can be much of that element which some folk describe as hallucination. We know what we're about." Picking up from the table a box of candies which the broker had brought her, she selected one of the sugared delicacies and popped it in her mouth.
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