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"Come on down and dance the first foxtrot with me, sweetness. You'll like it. Honest you will, when you get started." "Oh, I couldn't" reiterated Ruth. "That is nonsense. Of course, you could," objected Tony. "It is just your notion, Ruthie. You have kept away from people so long you are scared. But you would get over that in a minute and truly it would be lots better for you.
One suspects he would be a dull domestic companion. He has a veritable thirst for hopeful views of the world, and no spiritual distillery of his own. He leans to depression. Why! The broken reed you call your Tony carries a cargo, all of her manufacture she reeks of secret stills; and here is a young man a sapling oak inclined to droop. His nature has an air of imploring me que je d'arrose!
They saw three figures, all in cadet uniforms, wearing the insigne of the Capella unit. In the forefront was Tony Richards scowling angrily. "Tony!" gasped Tom. "What are you doing out here?" "We were on our way over to your dorm, Corbett," growled Tony Richards. "We saw you three sneaking across the quadrangle." "Coming to pay us a visit, fellas?" asked Roger blandly.
I believe it is my Tony who is talking outside in so loud a voice. I must go and hear what is the matter." She hastened through the bar-room to the street-door opening upon the market place. Yes, it was Anthony Wallner-Aichberger who was gesticulating so violently yonder.
What is it?" But Tony dared not tell; and the honest old seaman, whose confidence in his grandson had never been fully restored, was convinced that he had been about some of his evil ways again.
At least Ive never suffered from it. No, Mr Weener, my trouble is something no amount of vacations can help, because I can't get away from a Voice." "Voice, Tony?" Hallucinations were certainly a symptom of overwork. I began mentally recalling names of prominent psychiatrists. "A Voice within," he repeated firmly. "I am a sinful man, a miserable backslider.
The Yanks would not have made much search for these, though they would no doubt take all the larger boats for the use of the troops or for getting stores ashore. Anyhow, I will go to the next farmhouse and ask." "Shall I go, sah?" "No, Tony, they would probably take you for a runaway. No, I will go. There can be no danger. The men are all away, and the women are sure to be loyal.
She said she guessed she'd go back out West 'cause she didn't want to stay here any more. She was afraid of ghosts." "Ghosts!" Tony nodded. "I'm to leave the key of the house at Mr. Benton's in the mornin' an' tell him everythin's cleaned up an' in order. An' Miss Lucy said I was to stay here an' go on with the work till you or somebody else told me to stop." Without comment Martin listened.
When his tasks were done, and the other boys were amusing themselves each in his own way, you would find Tony lying flat on the pine needles in the woods, listening to the notes of the wild birds, and imitating them patiently, til you could scarcely tell which was boy and which was bird; and if you could, the birds couldn't, for many a time he coaxed the bobolinks and thrushes to perch on the low boughs above his head and chirp to him as if he were a feathered brother.
At any rate, he could never run away again from this home, where he was so loved and cared for. Oliver told him how sadly Dolly had fretted after him, and watched for him at the door, hour after hour, to see him come home again. He said that in the same way, only with a far greater longing and love, his Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, was waiting for Tony to go to him.