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I shall keep him busy until evening, now that he has started, it will only cost me a few pence, and it will keep him out of so much harm." There was a pause of a few moments after this. Cousin Bessie then looked up and said, half regretfully: "I wish I had a few spare dollars now. I could, perhaps do some good with them." "What is your latest freak?" asked I, returning her steady glance.

There was much traders' blood in Venice, and, trader-like, she was avid of possessions. You can surmise how she must have watered at the mouth to see so fine a morsel cast thus into her lap, and yet to know that the consumption of it might beget a woeful indigestion. Venice shook her head regretfully.

Hardly any girls can." The spies had got old Flanagan's boat down to the water's edge. They went back to the place where she had lain first. By a series of laborious portages they got all their goods down to the beach and packed them into the boat. "They're off now," said Frank, regretfully. "I wouldn't be too sure," said Priscilla. "That fellow's an extraordinary ass with a boat."

And I hope you'll find a wife that will be more congenial than I could ever be." Skim didn't understand all these words, but the general tenor of the speech was convincing, and filled him with dismay. "Rich gals is tarnal skeerce in these parts," he said, regretfully.

"Pete," declared Ruth. "He's a good boy, what there is of him." "Well, I guess I better notify him to-night," sighed Rachel; but she held the love-letter on her knee and regretfully smoothed its crumpled edges. Ruth pushed back her chair from the table and crossed the wide hall to the library.

A little before the Med Ship was due to break out from overdrive, the girl said very carefully, "You've been very kind. I'd like to thank you. I I didn't really believe I would live to get to Orede." Calhoun raised his eyebrows. "I wish I could tell you everything you want to know," she added regretfully. "I think you're ... really decent. But some thing...."

In 1892, as president of the San Francisco Typothetae, I had the great pleasure of cooperating with the president of the Typographical Union in giving a reception and dinner to George W. Childs, of Philadelphia. Our relations were not always so friendly. We once resisted arbitrary methods and a strike followed. My men went out regretfully, shaking hands as they left.

Enter the single-minded Dick, whose only fault at the gipsying, or picnic, had been that of loving Fancy too exclusively, and depriving himself of the innocent pleasure the gathering might have afforded him, by sighing regretfully at her absence, who had danced with the rival in sheer despair of ever being able to get through that stale, flat, and unprofitable afternoon in any other way; but this she would not believe.

The need of the signatures was all that ever made him bring us down from the United States." "He'd he such a charming fellow, too, if he only knew a little bit about being honest," sighed Tom, regretfully. "There is one thing about his rascality that I shall never forgive," growled Hazelton.

On the steps of the little theatre, Blake looked back at his party. 'The night was young! What would they say to supper? Jacqueline's eyes sparkled, but she looked at M. Cartel, and regretfully M. Cartel shook his head. 'Alas! He was expecting a friend a composer, to call upon him before midnight.