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That's why daddy chose it for your little name, darling, do you see?" "My name," said Peggy softly, moved by the wonder and beauty of her frock. "There he is, Peggy! Run down and show yourself." "Oh, muvver," shrieked Peggy, "it will be a surprise for daddy, won't it?" She ran down. They followed, and leaned over the bannisters to listen to the surprise.
"If I couldn't afford any other clothes, I might wear a switch, too!" hissed the Amazonian queen. "I suppose you don't dye it on account of the salt water. But perhaps you prefer green, dear?" "A little salt water might improve your own complexion, love." "Fishwoman!" screamed the Amazonian queen. "Bloomerite!" shrieked the mermaid. In another instant they had seized each other. "Mutiny!
More than one king has been dethroned for far less cause! "You telephone Mr. Edgerton," she almost shrieked at Simmons, the butler, "that he should come right up here as fast as he can. I've got to see him at once!" "Very good, madam," answered Simmons obsequiously. And without more ado, in less than forty minutes, the distinguished Mr.
The apartment-house towered above one side of it; a high brick wall fended it from the street; opposite Ravenel's window an old, old mansion stood, half-hidden in the shade of the summer foliage. The house was a castle besieged. The city howled and roared and shrieked and beat upon its double doors, and shook white, fluttering checks above the wall, offering terms of surrender.
"Oh, Ron, it is!" shrieked Margot, in happy excitement. "It is you, and no one else! I told you it was beautiful when you read it to me that day in the Glen! Oh, when did you send it to him?" "Never! I never so much as mentioned my verses in his hearing. That was part of the bargain that we should not worry him on his holiday. Margot, it was you!
It was a cuckoo clock, and it had just chimed twelve when we heard a quick step coming upstairs to the flat. The girl fixed her big dark eyes inquiringly on me, and then we heard a hoarse whisper through the keyhole telling us to open the door. "The girl ran to the door and let him in, but she shrieked at the sight of him when she saw him in the light.
"No, I won't put out the light," shrieked the madam. "You can't work here. I'm going to telephone Jim Finnegan to come and get you." Susan started up angrily, as if she were half-crazed by drink. "If you do, you old hag," she cried, "I'll tell him you doped me and set these men on me. I'll tell him about Joe Bishop. And Jim'll send the whole bunch of you to the pen.
"How fortunate that we are not afoot, then," Professor Henderson remarked. The next moment the two sleds shot around the wooded point and the river below lay before them. The bears were galloping after the party and shut off all way of escape to the rear. "Oh, gollyation! Looker dat mess ob b'ars!" shrieked Washington White. And there was a good reason for the black man's terror.
"No, I can pilot her all right," came the response through the wind that almost shrieked Bob's voice away. The rocky ledges of shores were crowding closer now.
"It will nevah do to keep Miss Allison waitin'! Come on!" she exclaimed, adding, as she flew through the upper hall, "The last one down the stairs is a pop-eyed monkey!" "I'm not it!" shrieked Joyce, racing past her. "I'm not it!" echoed Betty, darting ahead of them both, and reaching the ponies first. "Eugenia's last!
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