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"True," said Henrietta, "we will even take the bull by the horns." "And trust to our heels," said Beatrice, stealthily opening the door; "the coast is clear, and I know both your mamma and my papa will not stop us if they can help it. One, two, three, and away!"
Then the play would begin. 'You are not reading in bed, are you? he would say. 'Certainly not, I would reply. 'You are sure? he would insist. 'Of course, father, I would answer. Then back he would go, but only for a little way, and I would hear him come stealthily scuffling back again. Perhaps the candle would be lit again already, or at all events uncovered. Would he say anything? Oh, no!
I could not at first see the beast from which emanated this fearsome challenge, but the sound had the effect of bringing the two victims around with a sudden start, and then I saw the girl's face she was not Dian! I could have wept for relief. And now, as the two stood frozen in terror, I saw the author of that fearsome sound creeping stealthily into view.
Not one person in twenty would read it, and he that did might easily suppose the note to be some unauthorized impertinence of a foolish commentator. Secretly therefore, silently, stealthily so as to draw as little attention as possible Pope introduced into a note his wicked little brazen solution of his own wicked and brazen conundrum.
She ran into Bella's bath and wet the end of a towel and when Hannah was changing Aunt Selina's collar her concession to evening dress Anne wiped off the obvious places on the furniture. She did it stealthily, but Aunt Selina saw her in the glass. "What's that young woman's name?" she asked me sharply, when Anne had taken the towel out to hide it. "Anne Brown, Mrs. Dallas Brown," I replied meekly.
The fellow had crept stealthily from a dark corridor and was almost upon me with raised sword ere I saw him. Tars Tarkas was nowhere in sight and the secret panel in the wall, through which I had come, was closed. How I wished that he were by my side now!
She readily accepted, but for want of Queen Bee to hurry her, kept her grandmamma waiting longer than she liked, and had more of a scolding than was agreeable. The chickens were all gone to roost by the time they arrived, the cock just peering down at them with his coral-bordered eye, and the ducks waddling stealthily in one by one, the feeding was over, the hen-wife gone, and Mrs.
Copy after copy was stealthily made of Behmen's manuscript, till, most unfortunately for both of them, a copy came into the hands of Behmen's parish minister.
Her Aunt Fulda, prayerful but tearless, only able to sorrow as saints and angels do; Ideala with her great human heart torn, weeping and wailing and wringing her hands; Aunt Claudia, hard of aspect and soft of heart, stealthily wiping her tears as if ashamed of them; Uncle Dawne sitting with his elbows on his knees and his face hidden in his hands; and Dr.
She passed her husband's coffee, and the hungry child, though still all eyes, was taking his first gulp of milk, when over the top of his mug he saw his father reach stealthily down to his saddle-bags and straighten again. "Son." "Suh!" "Go on with yo' suppeh, son." Under the table the paper was coming off something.
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