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Come on, Jim." Miriam moved, with Judy following at her elbow, across the room to Millie. She looked up with her little plaintive frown. Miriam could not remember what her plans were. "Let's see," she said, "you're going to Norderney, aren't you?" "I'm not going to Norderney," said Nellie almost tearfully. "I only wish I were. I don't even know I'm coming back next term."

I was just starting for the lake when I heard sounds from the woods that alarmed the landlord but which I instantly recognized as the Polydore yell. A moment later I saw Silvia emerging at full speed into the open, drawing the cart in which Diogenes was doubled up like a jackknife. I hastened to meet them. "Oh, Lucien," exclaimed my wife tearfully, "we are bitten to bits!

"The gentleman" I would say "begs you will try to assume another expression of countenance," or words to that effect; whereto he would tearfully reply something about the will of God and the workmanship of his father and mother, honest folks, both of them. I was then obliged to add gravely: "You had better try, all the same, or he may shoot you.

You're just the kind of person to do it right." "O Doctor, don't say so! I'm not fitted for it at all." "I'm sure you are, Mary. You're fitted by character and outward disposition, and by experience. You're full of cheer" She tearfully shook her head. But he insisted. "You will be for his sake, as you once said to me. Don't you remember?" She remembered.

Between the minister and the mistress, each consumed with jealousy of the other, Henri had many a bad hour; and the climax came when de Sully refused to pass the extravagant charges for the baptism of the Marquise's second son, Alexander. Gabrielle was indignant and appealed angrily and tearfully to the King, who supported his minister.

Stooping over her, "Katie" touched her and said: "Wake up, Florrie, wake up! I must leave you now." "'Miss Cook then woke, and tearfully entreated "Katie" to stay a little time longer. ""My dear, I can't; my work is done. God bless you," "Katie" replied, and then continued speaking to Miss Cook for several minutes.

I feel now as though ... as though I have wept on this sofa all through the night ... Oh, how happy we used to be once upon a time," she sighed tearfully, then added with a giggle. "Why I hardly know what I am saying!" Mintz was walking up and down the room, measuring his steps extremely carefully.

You certainly deserve punishment for your behavior this morning, and I am much inclined to say that you shall not go to church again for some time." "Please, papa, don't say that," she replied tearfully; "I will try never to do so again." "Well," he replied, after a moment's reflection, "I shall punish you to-day by depriving you of your dinner, and if you repeat the offence I shall whip you."

All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard 'giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day. . . . He rose slowly. 'What a frightful row, he said. He crossed the room gently to look at the sick man, and returning, said to me, 'He does not hear. 'What! Dead? I asked, startled.

'Pray and work! This golden proverb is our motto through the day, and the love and industry which you will see everywhere will soon teach you to feel at home among us." "I live, as you know, in the neighborhood," said Frau von Trautenau, as Adele looked up tearfully.