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There was a big packing-case in the middle of the room, and he sat on it, tailor-fashion, as happy as a husky, normal young man can be. He looked longingly at the unset table; but his thoughts were more of Angela Hardy than of the good meal to come. "'Red," said Gilbert after a brief silence, "I was hoping to be able to pay you off to-day." "Pay me off?" That would have been heaven!
This was very difficult, but presently she caught the flash of it in the grass and gathered it up also. And now, ascertaining the condition of her hair, she went to the place that had been made by her tumble from the horse, and seating herself in it tailor-fashion, she set to work pulling out hairpins and dropping them into her lap beside the rest of her property.
"Don't you s'pose Jonesy feels as badly about it as we would?" asked Keith. "Shouldn't be surprised," said Malcolm, beginning to whistle. Keith joined in, and keeping step to the tune, like two soldiers, they marched on into the house. Virginia found them in the library, a little while later, sitting on the hearth-rug, tailor-fashion. They were still talking about Jonesy.
And she ended debate by sitting down tailor-fashion, and beginning to arrange her little bouquet. A meadow lark, troubadour of spring, trilled joyously somewhere in the pines above. The man looked up, then down at the vivid creature busy with her flowers at his feet. There was kinship between the two. She, too, was athrob with the joy note of spring.
The tone was contemptuous. "Well, that may be so for babes of seventeen like that one " her gesture indicated a slight figure in white at the edge of the lawn "who have never been out of the school-room but " "You think nineteen makes all the difference? I doubt," said Geoffrey French coolly, as he sat up tailor-fashion, and surveyed her.
We're over nine thousand feet high. You're not used to walking in the clouds. We'll rest here." She swung from the saddle and trailed the reins. "Sit down," the girl ordered after she had seated herself tailor-fashion on the moss. Reluctantly he did as he was told. He clenched his teeth in a cold rage at himself. Unless he conquered that habit of flying into panic at every crisis, he was lost.
He was a fat, comfortable-looking fellow, as he sat in tailor-fashion on the little wharf, smoking a corncob pipe as unconcernedly as though he had nothing to do all day but enjoy tobacco. Watson approached the man. "We want to get across the river as soon as possible," he explained, pointing to his companions. The ferryman took his pipe from his mouth and regarded the party quizzically.
Hilary glanced at the chicken and the bread, and felt disposed to resent his rough treatment, especially as just then the donkey brayed loudly, and fired off a salute of kicks against the side of the shed where he was confined; but there was a specially tempting brown side to that chicken, which looked tender and seductive, and Hilary argued that he should not be able to stand long upon his dignity if he starved himself, so he seated himself tailor-fashion beside the tray, and began to carve.
There were six more gigantic explosions up on the outside of the earth, then the little gnomes all stopped work, turned up their wheelbarrows, sat down on them in tailor-fashion, took out their lunch-pails, and began to eat. Then the three little Chinamen perched on their irons and took out some bowls and chopsticks. It made the Giant laugh to see their funny antics.
"You'll just have to, Cousin. Try sitting on your feet. That's the way they do." "I think tailor-fashion would be easier," answered the poor lady. "Don't help me. They might take it for rudeness. Everything is bad manners in this country." Crossing her feet, she slid slowly to the floor.
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