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"Oh Man!" cried the laughing Girl, as she clung pantingly to a bridge pillar for support, "I just had to come to tell you. There are fairies! Really truly ones! They have found the remainder of the willow dishes for me, and now there are so many it isn't going to be a table at all. It must be a little cupboard especially for them, in that space between the mantel and the bookcase.
"What are you trying to do? Why do you fall over a man like that? Are you drunk?" Sweetwater drew himself up, made a sheepish bow, and muttered pantingly: "Excuse me, sir. I'm in a hurry; I'm a messenger." The man who was not in a hurry seemed disposed to keep him for a moment.
Captain Jack Benson, clad only in a bathing suit, stepped out of the water and stood laughing before his employer. "Jack, how on earth did you " began Farnum, then stopped, overpowered by another wave of amazement. "What's the meaning of all this?" demanded the elder Melville, pantingly, as he reached the scene. "Mr.
Then, terrified in his own turn, he released her, and covered her hand with tears and kisses of contrition. 'Go, she said pantingly 'go, at once! He looked with remorse at her pale face and questioning eyes, and lurched towards the table on which he had laid his hat. 'Paul, said Claudia, 'it would have been better for you if you had never met me. 'No,'he answered, looking back at her.
So she paused and pantingly waited for whoever was coming. She could not see more than a few yards, but the footsteps sounded nearer and nearer, and, a moment later, a man's voice began singing "Annie Rooney," a melody then past its prime in the cities, but popularized in Bayport by some departed batch of summer boarders.
Cornelia, is this your house?" laughed Mrs. Bloodgood, pantingly. "Here I thought I was going up Marilla Merritt's steps! You don't mean to tell me that I turned into Ridgway Street instead of Penn?" "This isn't Penn Street," smiled Cornelia Opp. She had flung the door wide with a gesture of welcome. "No mercy, no, I can't come in!" panted the woman on the steps.
The only object this young man seemed to have was to batter down the score of players and flatten out Jack Dudley, far below at the bottom; but when, with the help of the referee, the mass was disentangled, and Jack, with his mop-like hair, his soiled uniform, and his grimy face, struggled to his feet and pantingly waited for the signal from his captain, he was just as good as ever.
She shuddered, closed her eyes, and pressed her forehead hard against the oak railing. "O my God, my God! our darling is gone!" At this crisis Dominick believed he saw what his mother, bowed and blinded, did not see a miracle working. Pantingly he cried out "Mamma!" The only response to his call was a moan and the despairing words, "Drowned! My baby is drowned!" "No! No! Look, mother! See there!
It bounced straight up to turn round with startling quickness, and it gave forth a rattling sound; then it crawled out of sight. "Por cu pine!" whispered Bo, pantingly. "It might as well have been an elephant!" Helen uttered a long, eloquent sigh. She would not have cared to describe her emotions at sight of a harmless hedgehog. "Listen!" warned Dale, very low.
She busily unfolded the sewing-table set it in the bay-window, patted the tea-cloth to smoothness, moved the tray. "Some time I'll have a mahogany tea-table," she said happily. She had brought in two cups, two plates. For herself, a straight chair, but for the guest the big wing-chair, which she pantingly tugged to the table. She had finished all the preparations she could think of.
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