United States or Ukraine ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
When they reached the by-road to the station, Joan said, "One, two, three, and away," and they shot like darts from the side of their instructress, arriving on the platform flushed and laughing, not at all like good girls, while Miss Bird panted in their rear, clucking threats and remonstrances, to the respectful but undisguised amusement of the porter, and the groom who had preceded them with the dog-cart.
"That's all right," he said, shaking his bloody head, "but, Judas, you did smash me with that stone! After that, I guess, I've got something coming to me!" And he reached down and kissed her lips. "You stop!" she panted. "Oh, I I'll kill you for that!" But Wiley only laughed recklessly. "All right!" he said, "what's the difference I'd die happy! I almost wish you'd hit me again."
But there are no words in which one may politely mention ineffective safety-pins to one's glass of fashion. Morris's knees trembled queerly, his breathing grew difficult, and Teacher seemed a very great way off as she asked again: "Well, what is it, dear?" Morris panted a little, smiled weakly, and then sat down. Teacher was evidently puzzled, the "Comp'ny" alert, the Principal uneasy.
It happened that Frank came over to the house a few moments later to get a book he needed, and he was startled when his wife, pale and shaking, came flying down the stairs, seized him by the arm, and panted: "Come, Frank this minute! Come quick! The baby!" Believing the child seriously ill, Merry lost no time in following his wife. They found Elsie beside the crib.
"Father," she panted at that point, her hands clasped before her, her dark, blue-eyed face flushing and paling, "will you let me go to Master Farwell to study with the boys?" Nathaniel eyed her from the top step of the porch; "with the boys" had been fatal to the child's request.
He knocked the other's blow aside and drove his right straight to the jaw. "There's a little souvenir to show you that I mean business, Percy," he panted. Percy came back to the attack with eyes gleaming with malice. Again he attempted to hit Rathburn, but the latter stepped aside with lightning swiftness and drove home another blow.
I could hear how he panted from the exertion, and it occurred to me that I might offer to bear his bundle for him, but yet I made no effort to overtake him. Up in Graendsen I met Hans Pauli, who nodded and hurried past me. Why was he in such a hurry?
His passionate utterance ceased with a snap of his teeth. His lips set in a thin, bitter line. The agitation of his face preceded a convulsive wrestling of his shoulders. All this swift action denoted an inner combat, and it nearly overwhelmed him. "No, no!" he panted. Was it his answer to some mighty temptation? Then, like a bent sapling released, he sprang erect.
"Get it," she panted; "get it quickly, and wish Oh, my boy, my boy!" Her husband struck a match and lit the candle. "Get back to bed," he said, unsteadily. "You don't know what you are saying." "We had the first wish granted," said the old woman, feverishly; "why not the second?" "A coincidence," stammered the old man. "Go and get it and wish," cried his wife, quivering with excitement.
"Now, my dear, here's your bait!" With this, Sylvia turned so sharply upon Joan that Elspeth started nervously and regarded her guest as she might have a tempting worm: something possibly necessary, but which she hesitated to touch. "She can read palms!" "Oh! Syl " Joan panted, but Sylvia scowled her to silence.
Word Of The Day