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He felt that from its bulk the letter must contain important reports from the ranch, and, coming at such a time, would need the steadying influence of a cigar to enable him to give them the consideration necessary. He lounged back in the big chair and leisurely tore open the envelope. The door communicating with the principal bedroom opened noiselessly.
Clark without hesitation prepared to force a way through it, wading and jumping from one submerged boulder to another through the torrent, bracing and steadying himself with a long pole. Though the river was then rather low, the savage, roaring, surging song it was ringing was rather nerve-trying, especially to our inexperienced companion.
Then he shot beyond her vision, and she heard the punt bump against the house-boat. "It's a gentleman to see you, miss," said the Badger, thrusting a grey and grinning visage up the stairs. "Ask him to come up!" said Hilary, steadying her voice with an effort. A moment later she rose to receive the man she loved. And her heart suddenly ceased to beat. "You!" she gasped, in a choked whisper.
At the post he's like as not to act like a locoed broncho, an' get one blamed for having 'juiced' him, but he don't need no dope; what he needs is steadying. If he gets away in front, them long legs of his will take some catchin'. He's the kind that wins when the books are layin' a hundred to one against him.
There! And she wrote hastily, steadying her arm upon the table, for she trembled like a reed. 'Remember; madam, she resumed, handing her the order, 'this must not be used nor spoken of at present; till I have seen the Baron, any hurried step I lose myself in thinking. The suddenness has shaken me.
Upon the end of it a greater mass of masonry was introduced to serve as a weight for steadying the structural device; and this necessary structural idea was the means of introducing another architectural feature the pinnacle. Between the pinnacles of these buttresses rose the gabled ends of each of the chapels.
And many a splendid man to-day is being swept off his feet and sucked under by the tides and currents of life because no such passion as this is mooring and steadying and driving his whole life. It must be a passion for winning men; not driving nor dragging, drawing. Not argument nor coercion but warm, winsome wooing.
"Then advance infantry and give the countersign." "Grant and Victory," replied Dick in a loud, clear voice. A laugh came from the steamer, and the rough voice said again: "Let the detachment advance again, and holding up its hands, show itself." Dick paddled closer and, steadying himself as well as he could, threw up his hands.
It had a kind of hollow, in which was a rude seat, carved out of the stone. Seeing this, a set look came to her face: she was thinking of Parpon, the master of this place. Her business was with him. She got down slowly, and came over to the edge of the precipice. Steadying herself against a sapling, she looked over. Down below was a whirlpool, rising and falling-a hungry funnel of death.
I cannot tell you all I feel, but if a lifetime of devotion can in the smallest degree repay you what I owe, it shall be freely given. Now bless me once more, me and my bride." Richard had arisen as Arthur was speaking, and at the word bride he put out his hand as if to keep from falling, then steadying that on Arthur's head and laying the other on Edith's he whispered,
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