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I didn't see you going down and I began to wonder if I'd see you going back. You can do a pitch, Nellie. When a fellow's waiting for you, too." Nellie laughed, then sobered down. "The baby's dead," she said, sadly. "You recollect it was born when you were here before, the day we went to the Strattons."
"I live in a cottage down the road and I came over this way to see if the old professor had come back yet. I saw the door open came in and found you." He smiled again pleasantly and looked as though he considered that he had fallen into rather good luck. But at his mention of the professor Betty had sobered instantly. "Oh, then you know something about Professor Dempsey?" she questioned eagerly.
The sound of the knock in the silence of the night sobered him and made him feel annoyed. And no one answered him; every one in the house was asleep. “And I shall be making a fuss!” he thought, with a feeling of positive discomfort. But instead of going away altogether, he fell to knocking again with all his might, filling the street with clamor. “Not coming?
The engine burst into staccato thunder, sobered down; the wheels began to move both Cora and Corliss were laughing and there was an air of triumph about them Cora's veil streamed and fluttered: and in a flash they were gone. Laura stared at the suddenly vacated space where they had been. At a thought she started.
Just at present everything is topsy-turvy, but you may be sure that Trochu and Vinoy, and the other generals will gradually get things into shape, and will not be long before they find what corps are to be depended on and what are not." Crossing the river they made their way out beyond the walls. Even the light-hearted students were sobered by the sight beyond.
Perfectly inactive, it is not surprising that so young a soldier should feel sobered by the solemn reflections that are apt to get possession of the mind, at the probable approach of death if not to myself, at least to many of those who were around me.
A month passed during which the steady chip-chip scarcely ever ceased; and yet, when the work was finally finished and set up over the fresh little mound in the grounds behind the church, and they came to stand before it, they found nothing ready for them to say. For once the tongues of the hillsfolk were sobered into silence.
He didn't tell a soul he was going and after he reached New York he telephoned." "Dale says everyone at the Mills is talking about you, Robin and what you did." "Why," Robin's face sobered, "I didn't do anything." "Well, Dale says your going in to poor old Granny the way you did has made everyone like you. And they were getting awfully worked up against the Forsyths and the Mills.
"I am the State," Louis had declared, and such ideas were not for the canaille to have; they must curb their tongues to cheat the gibbet. Being a soldier and under orders, I had no right to form opinions, but, sobered in some degree by these reflections, paced about until it came time to take horse and away.
"Well, I think if we are going to have such a fine post office, we'll have to work pretty hard to write the letters," said Polly, after they had sobered down a bit. "Ugh!" cried Joel with a grimace, "I'm not going to write a single scrap of one." "Indeed you are," retorted Polly; "everybody has absolutely got to write some letters. Why, we must have a bushel of them."
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