United States or Mongolia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
A whimsical smile broke over the woman's face. It quivered on her red lips for just a breath, as if conscious how ill-timed it was. "I really like to tire my feet," she murmured, and she pointed the toe of her tiny boot, as if poised to dance, and looked down on it with evident admiration. The man caught his breath sharply. "It's that damned dancing that has upset you, Dora!" "Sh! Don't swear!
As her foot touched the lower step, five or six heads peered over the banister railing above, and what mystery of gravitation prevented as many bodies from toppling over after them I am unable to say. "Do look! Do look! She is after her full tilt, girls," whispered Cicely. "Didn't I tell you it would be the funniest thing you ever saw?" "Sh!
All the dolls lay as still as mice for a few minutes, then Raggedy Ann raised up on her cotton-stuffed elbows and said: "I have been thinking!" "Sh!" said all the other dollies, "Raggedy has been thinking!" "Yes," said Raggedy Ann, "I have been thinking; our mistress gave us the nice dinner out under the trees to teach us a lesson.
Maria had warned her not to waken her grandfather, so she admired it in whispers. "Jus' think, Fritz," she exclaimed, "this doll has seen my Gran'mothah Amanthis, an' it's named for her. My mothah wasn't any bigger'n me when she played with it. I think it is the loveliest doll I evah saw in my whole life." Fritz gave a jealous bark. "Sh!" commanded his little mistress.
"They are coming for me!" he said. "What shall I do?" "No, no," said the woman. "I do not fear that. It is too soon, surely. But it is growing dark here in the valley. This is a lonely spot, and there are many wicked men about besides your masters, Gigi." "Thieves and villains!" whispered Giovanni. "Oh, mother, hide the bag of silver that you got at market!" "Sh! Sh!" warned the mother sharply.
"She's got it twice as bad," groaned Jimmy, and he wondered what new form her persecution of him was about to take. "Where is the morning paper?" asked Aggie, excitedly. "We can't advertise NOW," protested Zoie. "It's too late for that." "Sh! Sh!" answered Aggie, as she snatched the paper quickly from the table and began running her eyes up and down its third page.
That's why I can look you in the eyes and tell you so. Why shouldn't I? What is my woman's pride beside that other pride? I have not stopped as she has to conquer." "Sh !" "She stooped to conquer. I'm glad glad it shows the difference between us. It weighs us one against the other. You shall know. One day you shall know. You'll tire of her. It's always the ending of a conquest like that."
"The letter!" growled Richard in a frenzy, between fear and anger now. "Give it me! Give it me do you hear?" "Sh! You'll betray yourself," she cried. "He is here." And at that same moment Mr. Wilding's tall figure, still arrayed in his bridegroom's finery of sky-blue satin, loomed in the doorway. He was serene and calm as ever.
'Coon heard it, and jumped straight up, too, in his bed; and Mr. 'Possum heard it, and jumped straight up in his bed, and Mr. 'Coon said, "'Sh!" and Mr. 'Possum said, "'Sh!" and Mr. Crow stumbled over to the window and opened it and looked out, and said: "Who's there?" Though he really didn't have to ask, because he knew, and besides, he could see the biggest Mr.
Word Of The Day