United States or Turkey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Perhaps the two hundred pounds was lost; perhaps there was no balance at the bank! When the good gentleman was ushered into the room she glanced at him mysteriously, and even while he was shaking hands with Jasmine and Daisy, began letting fall short, but mysterious sentences "Mrs. Ellsworthy has called much pleased inclined to take them up. They are to spend to-morrow at Shortlands." Mr.
"No, the first train for you is the eight-forty-five to-morrow." "Too bad! I wish there was a train right away." There was no help for it, and a few minutes later the youth left the depot, and jumping on the motorcycle, started back for Brill College. As he rode along Dick's thoughts were busy. What had taken his parent to New York and why had he disappeared so mysteriously?
Then, observing that the negro wore a crown and was a king, like the other two, the Spaniards, his thoughts naturally turned to the king of the Indians, and he sighed. "Do you know, sir," he asked Basilio respectfully, "if his right foot is loose yet?" Basilio had him repeat the question. "Whose right foot?" "The King's!" whispered the cochero mysteriously. "What King's?"
The natives have a very bad reputation, besides which it is suspected that one, if not more, pirates have their rendezvous in these seas. Several of our merchantmen have mysteriously disappeared, without any gale having taken place which would account for their loss.
Indeed, with the exception of the three or four shrieking whistles to which the animal had given utterance, so silently and mysteriously had he come and departed, that they might almost have fancied the whole thing a dream.
There, mysteriously kindled, burns the fire with the welcome meal already laid upon it. They add to it the contribution of their night of toil, and then, hushed and blessed in His still company, they sup with Him and He with them.
"Julie," said the veiled lady, in rapid French, "I have here the photograph of a man who was killed in this room most mysteriously a few days ago. These gentlemen wish to identify him. The face seems to me somehow familiar, but I cannot place it. Look at it."
You never mean to say she's here? I thought she was in Russia " "Gracious!" almost shrieked Mrs Jefferson. "Why it was her husband who died so mysteriously, on the eve of that awful conspiracy. You never mean to say, Colonel Estcourt, that you know her. Why she's one of the celebrities of Europe, and to come here, to this quiet place and incognito?"
'I've been at at Brighton, dear grandmamma, said Lucy, so much agitated as scarcely to be able to recall the name, or utter the words. 'And I say, my dear love, said Mrs. Meadows, earnestly and mysteriously, 'have you seen him?
Time, he considered, had been kind to Sophie time, the mysteries of the modern toilette, and the astonishing adaptability of womankind. Splendidly vital, like all of her sort who survive, she seemed mysteriously able to renew that vitality through the very extravagance with which she squandered it. She had lived much of late years, rapidly but well, had learned much, had profited by her lessons.
Word Of The Day