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The man's eyes considered her a moment as she thanked him, and then he had lifted his hat and was gone, running, like a boy in a hurry for a holiday, toward the white stone landing. An empty sail flopped big at the landing, and the girl stood and looked as he sprang in under it and took the rudder. Joe, the head porter, the familiar friend of every one, was stowing in a rug.
We want a Pulpit that will not get us into a tearing-down revival, where the people go shouting and twisting about, regardless of carpets and fine effects, but a revival that shall be born in a band-box, and wrapped in ruffles, and lie on a church rug, so still that nobody will know it is there.
The spaniel was allowed to worry bits of food that left marks on the rug; his owner ate without appetite and in a hypercritical mood that took no account of the wasteful attempts to please her. Quite regardless of the patient little Jap, she alternately found fault with him and discussed with her guest matters of so frank a nature that Lorelei was often painfully embarrassed.
Katie had built a glorious fire of dry wood in the living room fireplace, and after dinner we stretched out lazily before it, Mother Graham and I in arm chairs, Dicky on a rug with cushions bestowed comfortably around him. "I am naturally very glad to hear that," I said, demurely, and Dicky laughed aloud. "That's right, take all the credit to yourself," he said, teasingly.
Dora sat alone for a few minutes, and then David came in. 'Ah! Dora, this is nice. Lucy says you will stay to supper. We get so busy, you and I, we see each other much too seldom. He spoke in his most cordial, brotherly tone, and, standing on the rug with his back to the fire, he looked down upon her with evident pleasure.
Helmsley was never tired of watching her. Whether she knelt down with a pail of suds, and scrubbed her cottage doorstep or whether she sat quietly opposite to him, with the small "Charlie" snuggled on a rug between them, while she mended her lace, his eyes always rested upon her with deepening interest and tenderness.
After finishing our lunch, as we passed out of the dining room, General Blair asked me, if I did not want some saddle-blankets, or a rug for my tent, and, leading me into the hall to a space under the stairway, he pointed out a pile of carpets which had also been sent up from Charleston for safety.
Tunis had shaken his peacoat free of the clinging snow and now stamped his sea-boots on the rug. He smiled broadly and confidently at Sheila and she returned it so happily that her whole face seemed to irradiate sunshine. Prudence nudged Cap'n Ira's elbow. "Ain't it a pretty sight, Ira?" she whispered.
Malcolm promptly turned a somersault on the rug, to express his approval, but came up with a grave face, saying, "I'll bet that grandmother will say we can't have it." "Let's get Aunt Allison on our side," suggested Virginia. "She's up in her room now, painting a picture." A little sigh of disappointment escaped Miss Allison's lips, as she heard the rush of feet on the stairs.
He was lying on a rug of seals' skins, with another pulled over him, under which was a blanket. "He lives!" cried the captain, placing his hand over the heart of the unconscious man. After a minute a faint color mantled his white cheek and he heaved a long sigh. Presently the eyelids trembled, and a moment later he opened them. They rested on the captain, who was stooping over him.
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