United States or Guernsey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Armstrong and Miss Faith, go after them quick; don't stop a minute." "Where are they?" said Holden. "They go in that direcshum," answered Felix, pointing with his chin, across the field. "How long ago?" "Ever so long; Oh, good Mr. Holden, do hurry," said Felix, whose anxieties made him magnify the progress of time.
'There! she said, pointing to the top of the square tower over the entrance to the hall, from which we had watched the arrival of the guests: it rose about nine feet only above where we now stood in the gutter 'I know I left the door open when we came down. I did it on purpose. I hate Goody Wilson. Lucky, you see! that is if you have a head. And if you haven't, it's all the same: I have.
We sprang to our feet with a gasp of astonishment as Challenger, in a round, boyish straw-hat with a colored ribbon Challenger, with his hands in his jacket-pockets and his canvas shoes daintily pointing as he walked appeared in the open space before us.
Well, I forgive you; only remember, you have admitted that it was all your fault?" She was pointing her finger at him like a schoolmistress, and Gavin hastened to answer "You were not to blame at all." "I like to hear you say that," explained the representative of the more reasonable sex, "because it was really all my fault." "No, no."
The man's pointing hand, which was large and strong-looking, fell at his side, and he gazed at her with a sarcasm which he no longer troubled to conceal. "May I ask what under the sun you can do?" "What I can do?..." Under his hard and frankly belittling stare, Carlisle began to feel rather small, despite her firm resolves to feel nothing of the sort. She had heard something of this Mr.
I replied by showing her my bed-place. "And this," said I, pointing to the one opposite, "was Jackson's, and you can sleep in that. Nero sleeps with me. Here are plenty of seal-skins to keep you warm, if you are cold. Are your clothes wet?" "No, they are quite dry now," replied she; "if you will get me some seal-skins, I will lie down on them, for I am very tired."
Do you think I should stay for one moment in the room with him? No! I shall go in there," pointing to the next room that opens out of this with folding-doors, "and wait until he goes away." She has hardly time to reach this seclusion when the door is thrown wide, and Sir Maurice is announced. "Nobody with you?" says he, glancing somewhat expectantly around him. "I fancied I heard someone.
It used to be my grandfather's home, and after he died and we all moved to New York Father fixed it over and kept it so we could go there summers. I've never been up in the spring, though. It will be no end of fun." "I hope you do not call this weather spring," put in Van, sarcastically, pointing to the snow-buried hills outside.
But before she could take a single step in that direction there was another terrible explosion. "Look, oh look!" screamed Pierre, pointing to the Cathedral towers, which were visible from where they stood; "they are shelling the Cathedral!" For an instant they stood as if rooted to the spot.
"Will he let me?" asked Phil, pointing to the teacher. "To be sure he will. Come along." Phil took his fiddle from its hiding-place in the interior of the tree, and walked beside his companion into the schoolroom. It was the first time he had ever been in a schoolroom before, and he looked about him with curiosity at the desks, and the maps hanging on the walls.
Word Of The Day