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Nancy laughed. But Mrs. Billings said: "No but AREN'T they quiet? And they were making such a noise! You know they were clapping and laughing so, a few minutes ago!" "They must have finished," Mrs. Fielding said, looking at her hand quizzically. "You said no trump. Partner, let's try two spades!" "Billy was going to come in to tell me," persisted Mrs.
Each day the four girls rode along various trails until, in the judgment of Jeb, they were practiced enough to take a longer ride in the mountains. Polly had been urging Jeb to give a favorable opinion on their ability to stand a prolonged ride to the Flat Tops, but he was careful and practical and persisted in making them try a greater distance daily to finally harden them to a rough trail.
Even in this hour of our mutual discomfort Johnson would not leave me alone, but persisted in asking me how I spelt Jonah. Nobody was looking, so I kicked him. He sprang up and came after me. I tried to run away, but became wedged between Hop-o'-my-Thumb and Julius Caesar.
If he perish in the attempt to slay the Black Phantom; or, if he should fail and thus become an exile, we should lose him forever." "If Oomah be lost another will be found to take his place. Wana, son of my sister, is a promising youth. And besides, there is another reason why Oomah has been chosen." "What is that reason?" Yaro persisted.
"Have you any reason to suppose, Miss Webster, that your aunt was shall we say annoyed, with you?" "I knew she did not like the way I felt about some things," admitted Lucy. "But did not some vital difference of opinion arise between you recently?" Mr. Benton persisted. "I spoke my mind to Aunt Ellen the other day," confessed the girl. "I had to." "Ah! Then that explains matters!" "What matters?"
"Hush, hush, No. 6!" exclaimed Aunt Judy, quite startled by the expression; "it was not right to say or think that." "I couldn't help it," persisted No. 6. "We couldn't do without you, I'm sure." "We can do without anything which God chooses to take away," was Aunt Judy's very serious answer. "But I didn't want to do without," murmured No. 6, with her eyes fixed on the floor.
And, by the way, give me a cigarette." Jack tossed him his case, opened the pouch, took out the letter, and read it slowly through again. "Merefield Court, "near Harrogate. "May 28th, Thursday. "I am ashamed of you, sir. When you first told me of your intention, I warned you what would happen if you persisted, and I repeat it now.
If this course, perseveringly persisted in, does not restore the state of quo, I am hopeless. I have no further resources. The one drop of sweetness in the bitter cup was, that the cherries, being thus let severely alone, were allowed to hang on the trees and ripen. It took them a great while.
The peasant who had been ordered to drive the second cart was pulling on his smock, stoutly maintaining that it was not his turn to go, but Akim’s. But Akim was not to be seen. They ran to look for him. The peasant persisted and besought them to wait. “You see what our peasants are, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.
To these and other amusements the obsequious old gentleman kindly offered to conduct Lady Clavering, and was also ready to make himself useful to the baronet in any way agreeable to the latter. In spite of his present station and fortune, the world persisted in looking rather coldly upon Clavering, and strange suspicious rumors followed him about. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession.
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