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"Very neatly." "Sure," from Billie. "It was a short stop." "I perceive that you are an American. I am also a fan." "What!" from the three Americans. "True. I am even worse. I formerly shot the pill in one of the bush leagues. I aspired to a place in the box of one of the major league clubs, but instead I joined the Madero revolution.
As we had been expected they had caused the tent to be neatly arranged, fresh grass was spread on the ground, buffalo robes were placed on the side opposite the door for us to sit on, and a kettle was on the fire to boil meat for us.
The Corporal, a smart figure of a man of thirty, perhaps a thought under the middle size, but very neatly made, a sunburnt Corporal with a brown peaked beard, faced about at the moment, addressing voluble words of instruction to the squad in hand. Nothing was amiss or awry about the Corporal.
The address was in a handwriting unknown to him, but opening the parcel he was surprised to find only a handkerchief neatly folded. Examining it closely, he found it was his own, the one he had given her, the rent made by her uncle's bullet so ingeniously and delicately mended as to almost simulate embroidery.
SECTION CXV. This being so, the pictures that are most valued are for the most part those by masters of established renown, which are highly or neatly finished, and of a size small enough to admit of their being placed in galleries or saloons, so as to be made subjects of ostentation, and to be easily seen by a crowd.
There was no absurd press nor vestry to protect the poor at the expense of the rich and see that everything should be neatly adjusted. Every man had to shift for himself and, consequently, men were, as Mr. Clement Scott would say, manly, and women, as Mr. Clement Scott would say, womanly.
One requires endless tact to manage him and save him from himself." Henrietta paused, sighed, sitting on the stool before her toilette table, neatly placing tortoiseshell hairpins, patting and adjusting her bright brown hair. "I could have bitten my tongue out for making that wretched slip about the coffee cups; but I was off my guard for once.
A neatly folded slip of paper had dropped among some torn letters beneath the table. She held it up to him with a cry of delight. He made a movement, then fell back. 'Read it, please, he said, hoarsely, refusing it. 'There's something wrong with my eyes. And he held his hands pressed to them, while she little reluctantly, wistfully opened and read: * MY DEAR JOHN, I have Phoebe safe.
"Of course," she added, when Bassett maintained a puzzled silence, "I may be all wrong. He might have fallen in the next room and dragged himself to bed. But he was very neatly covered up." "It's your idea, then, that this boy put him into the bed?" "I don't know. He wasn't seen about the place. He's never been here since.
Their figures are good, and their feet and ankles quite unexceptionable, being generally very much more neatly turned than those of my handsomest countrywomen.
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