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David resumed his place in the office, and when we put in the perfecting press he added another string to his bow. The press and the linotype and his girl were his life's passions, and his position as short-stop in the Maroons, and as snare-drummer in the Second Regiment band, were his diversions.
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. The elders of the party thought of the drive home. Little by little the comfortable attractions of the house tea, coffee, and candle-light in snug rooms resumed their influence.
With one hand she held the article firmly on the plank; with the other, which grasped the short couch-grass brush, she extracted from the linen a dirty lather, which fell in long drips. Then, in the slight noise caused by the brush, the two women drew together, and conversed in a more intimate way. "No, we're not married," resumed Gervaise. "I don't hide it.
There's no comfort in comparing the laugh of fools with the crackling of thorns under a pot, if you happen to be inside the pot and in process of cooking." He took off his hat, brushed it on the sleeve of his coat, and resumed in a tone altogether lighter "Yes, I hate to be laughed at; and I'll tell you a tale on this point that may amuse you at my expense.
After the defeat at Pharsalia he waited with his father at Brundisium till a kind letter from Caesar assured him of pardon. In B.C. 46 he was made aedile at Arpinum, his cousin being appointed at the same time. The next year he would have gladly resumed his military career.
I resumed, therefore, the ascent, but with more time and caution than before; and fearing to look either up or down, or to any portion of the frightful aspect around, I fixed my eye entirely on each individual step before me, as if there had been no other object in the world besides.
Nurse Rosemary resumed the reading of the letter. "Ah, what a wrong I have done, both to you, and to myself! Dear, you remember the evening on the terrace at Shenstone, when you asked me to be when you called me when I WAS YOUR WIFE? Garth, I leave this last sentence as it stands, with its two attempts to reach the truth.
"Then," he resumed, "you might come down and I would tell you the news; besides, I might often help you by doing errands." Mademoiselle Marguerite reflected for a moment, and then bowing her head, she replied: "What you suggest is quite practicable.
There was a slight dash of bitterness in the tone in which the last words were uttered; but it was gone when he resumed, in his usual low and musical voice
"In all this, Mademoiselle," I said in my best professional manner, "I do not gather how I can be of service to you." "I am coming to that, Monsieur," she resumed after a slight moment of hesitation, even as an exquisite blush suffused her damask cheeks. "You must know that at first I was very happy in the house of my new guardian.
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