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"I wonder if we shall have this house to live in if grandfather should die," said Stephen, suddenly. It could not have been his first thought; he had sat soberly silent a good while. "O Stevie! don't let's think anything about that!" said Ruth; and nobody else answered at all.
Alone Tony put her hands over her hot cheeks. So this was love. It was terrible, but oh it was wonderful too. Soberly after a moment she went to change the damning OUT opposite her name in the hall bulletin just as the clock struck the shocking hour of three. But lo there was no damning OUT visible, only a meek and proper IN after her name.
"Changing the subject," continued Senator Hanway, "young Storms seems to be the accepted lover of Dorothy. I'm gratified by it; he has no money, but Mr. Gwynn will act the generous part. What surprises me is the submission of Barbara; she was decidedly tragic in her objections one evening." "Yes," said Mr. Harley, soberly exultant, his conquest of Mrs.
"Can you look me in the eye and tell me that you are not lying to me now?" he demanded. I met the test soberly. "I can. I was convicted of a crime that I didn't commit, and I broke my parole solely because that appeared to be the one remaining alternative to becoming a criminal in fact." The interview over, I expected to be put into stripes, cropped, and sent to the workshops.
"Yes, uncle, only when it is opened won't 'the birds begin to sing?" laughed Rose, taking a turn about the room as a vent for the joyful emotions that made her eyes shine. All of a sudden she stopped and asked soberly, "If Phebe goes to school who will do her work? I'm willing, if I can." "Come here and I'll tell you a secret.
I believe that Sir George, riding soberly to Estcombe in the morning, was not guiltless of looking back in spirit. Probably there are few men who, when the binding word has been said and the final step taken, do not feel a revulsion of mind, and for a moment question the wisdom of their choice.
"That can be nothing more than his ghost," said Tom soberly, "for Ruth retrieved at least half of the ant's bodily presence." "You'll give us all the fidgets if you keep on wriggling, Jennie," declared Aunt Kate. "Well, I don't want to sit on the grass in a woodsy place again while we are on this journey," sighed Jennie. "Ugh! I always did hate creepy things."
Windrush's; would not that be a fair cause for interdiction from fire and water, sacraments and Christian burial?" "Come, come, Templeton," I said; "you shall not thus jest away serious thoughts with an old friend. I know you are ill at ease. Why not talk over the matter with me fairly and soberly? How do you know till you have tried, whether I can help you or not?"
Rose sat down, but did not seem to find her "word" an easy one to utter, for she twisted her handkerchief about her fingers in embarrassed silence till Mac put on his glasses and, after a keen look, asked soberly: "Is it a splinter, a cut, or a whitlow, ma'am?" "It is neither.
The calculation is never soberly made as to his bodily or mental powers to do all which is expected of him. There is an immense faith in both.