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He was returning to Kardon, and Copper was not coming with him. She had a duty to their son and he had a duty to his contract with Alexander, to the Lani on Flora, and to Copper and none of these could be satisfied by further running. He had to return and settle the account. A tall man in a conservative yellow-and-black suit was waiting patiently in front of his room.
In deed and in truth, Iris, What shall a poor girl say or do, when a strong man falters in his speech before her, and can do nothing better than hold out his hand to finish his broken sentence? The poor girl said nothing, but quietly laid her ungloved hand in his, the little, soft white hand which had ministered so tenderly and suffered so patiently.
He would sit patiently for four hours on the nest, while Blanche spent that time with me; then, punctually at the right moment, she would wake up, and, lazily stretching her wings, would fly out at the open window to see how affairs were getting on at home, and take her place on the nest for her appointed four hours. She was a most eccentric bird in the matter of laying eggs.
He so arranges it that he walks safely off with fifteen thousand pounds' worth of diamonds, leaving the victim, Samuel, stuck patiently in an office for an hour or two before he even begins to suspect anything is wrong, and then unable to set the police after him, for the reasons you discovered.
So we are waiting till they come, the eldest girl replied. 'Yes. We are waiting till our people come for us, said all the others in chorus. 'But, said Frau Ebermann very patiently 'but now tell me, for I tell you that I am not in the least angry, where do you come from? Where do you come from? The five gave the names of two villages of which she had read in the papers,
All these trials, youthful frivolity, the lack of a Gaelic service and old Andrew Johnstone's storms, Duncan Polite had borne patiently; but to-day's sermon had been almost too much for even his optimism, for that morning a smart probationer had stood up in Mr. Cameron's sacred pulpit and delivered a twenty-minute address on the Beauties of Nature!
If there are better modes of managing exotic or native vines, and of developing the whole theory of grape culture, we shall be quite sure to find them out in the wide sweep of experiment which we are boldly and patiently undertaking in various parts of the country.
As time passed on, Huldbrand gradually cooled toward his wife and turned affectionately towards Bertalda. Undine bore patiently and silently the sorrow thus inflicted on her.
"The white flag with the blue St. Andrew's cross floating over that warship is the Russian national emblem," patiently replied one of the officers of our steamer, "and so I conclude that these vessels compose the Russian Mediterranean squadron."
Much talk of the coming baile seemed to indicate that the sailors expected to return before evening, so Piang patiently squatted on a coil of rope, wondering when the mysteries of his errand would be revealed to him. The ocean is dotted with many lovely islands off Zamboanga.
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