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"I'll do more than talk." He clenched his fists and paced boldly up and down the hearthrug. "You leave things to me," said Mr. Kybird, with a confidential wink. "I'll see that it's all right. All I ask of you is to keep it a dead secret; even your mother mustn't know." "I'll be as secret as the grave," said the overjoyed Mr. Silk. "There's lots o' things to be taken into consideration," said Mr.

But Sophy, who was too indulgent to her friend's real inclination to comply with her request, observed that the gentleman seemed so reasonable in his concessions, that she began to think her cousin was in the wrong, and felt herself disposed to act as umpire in the dispute. Overjoyed at this condescension, Mr.

His lordship expressed great concern at this account, and very kindly promised to take some opportunity of calling on him at his cousin Ellison's, when he hoped, he said, to bring him comfortable tidings. Booth soon afterwards took his leave with the most profuse acknowledgments for so much goodness, and hastened home to acquaint his Amelia with what had so greatly overjoyed him.

The grateful Souk was so overjoyed, that, forgetting his position and the rank of his chief, he fell upon his neck, and, kissing him again and again, actually shed tears.

Chichester, she was hurt to the heart by the attitude of cold indifference with which her aunt treated her. She was indeed overjoyed to think now it was the last she would ever see of the old lady. Alaric held out his hand frankly: "Jolly decent of ye to offer to stay here just to keep us goin' awfully decent. You are certainly a little wonder. I'll miss you terribly really I will."

Willis Ford, unless you leave this room and this town at once," said Grant, firmly, "I will have you arrested. There is a local officer below whom I brought with me, suspecting your object in coming here." "Oh, Grant, how glad I am to see you! Is papa with you?" exclaimed Herbert, overjoyed. "I will tell you about it soon, Herbert." "You won't let him take me away?"

Overjoyed, he cried, "What can I do so that you can get up and ride to the village with me? My friend and I just returned with a large band of horses and two scalps. We saw this tent and recognized it.

But if you were the least bit sincere in what you say, you'd be delighted to hear that Doyle and Thady Gallagher Thady hasn't actually been told yet, but when he is he'll be as pleased as everyone else you ought to be simply overjoyed to find that men like Doyle are inviting the Lord-Lieutenant down to unveil their statue. It shows that they're getting steadily loyaler and loyaler.

He thought it a wonderful thing that it had so chanced. It overjoyed him to give the choicest dusters he found into her slim, waxen little fingers, and watch her eyes grow round with pleasure in them. When the sun began to lower over the beeches she had gone home with her arms full of arbutus, but she had turned at the edge of the pineland and waved her hand at him.

The hounds have come from Cuba and in the charge of ten men ten men with sixty hounds. That is the situation at the moment. All the people at Kingston are overjoyed. They see the end of the revolt." "The hounds!" exclaimed the governor. "What hounds?" "The hounds sent for by Dyck Calhoun surely your honour remembers!"