United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Wot's that in your hair, Minty?" he said tactfully, breaking an embarrassing pause. "Bar's grease, father," murmured Minty, in a child's voice the grown-up woman, under that magic touch, having lapsed again into her father's motherless charge of ten years before. "It's pow'ful soothin', and pretty," said her father. "I made it myself do you want some?" asked Minty. "Not now, girl!"
"'That, says the postmaster, sure o' support, 'ain't the question. "'I thought it couldn't be, says Abel, amiable. 'Well, what is the question? Whether prayer is prayer, no matter where you're prayin'? "'Oh, no, says Eppleby Holcomb, soothin', 'it ain't that. "'I thought it couldn't be that, says Abel. 'Is it whether the Lord is in dedicated spots an' nowheres else?
The tone of that is altogether more 'armonious and more soothin' to the hear, than that there beastly grammarphone ever could be!" The mate heaved a deep sigh and sorrowfully went below. In the effort to ram music into his superior officer he had to admit himself defeated. A Western Tale By CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER
"Well, I should like to have you try that." "What does it do?" she gasped, when she could get her breath. "Well, it's soothin' t' the cough, and it builds ye up, every ways. Why, my brother," continued the factotum, "he died of consumption when I was a boy, reg'lar old New England consumption. Don't hardly ever hear of it any more, round here.
And here Zenobia comes in with the soothin' advice. She's another whitehaired old lady, lookin' something like the one in the chair, only not so bulky and with more ginger about her. "Now, Sally," says she, "let's not talk of calling in the police over a trifle. Hadley doesn't appear to be hurt, and possibly he was somewhat at fault." "The idea!" says Sally.
Tom Montjoy is de onliest one which kin slip de bit in dat mule's mouf, an' de way he do it is to go into de nex' stall an' keep speakin' soothin' words to him, an' put de bridle on him f'um behinehand of his shoulder lak. But when Tom Montjoy ain't wukkin', de Frank mule he ain't wukkin' neither any.
Eleanor asked, as she made the adjustment. "I dunno whether that's better, or whether it just seems better to me, because 'twas you that fixed me," the little old lady said. "You certainly have got a soothin' and comfortin' way with you."
She'd seen 'em all go four of 'em. Good-night! I talked easy and soothin' to Ruby after that. "Then I went up to live with Uncle Edward at Naukeesha," she trails along. "He's a minister there. It was he who suggested my going into foreign mission work. I had to do something, you know, and I'd always been such a good scholar. I love books. So I studied hard, and was sent to the Co-ed.
"It may have been a little affair to him," says Gerald, poutin' a bit sulky; "but it wasn't so to me. It it changed my whole life utterly!" "Of course," puts in J. Bayard soothin'. "We understand that, Mr. Webb." "But you've come out all right; you struck something just as good, or better, eh?" and I waves round at the teashop.
With which soothin' josh and a pat on the shoulder, I slips through into the private office, where Mr. Robert sits puffin' a cigarette placid in front of a heaped-up desk. When he sees me, he grins. "Well, well!" says he, shovin' out the cordial palm. "So the treasure seekers have returned, have they?" And he chuckles. "Uh-huh!" says I, doin' a little grin on my own account.
Word Of The Day