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Rita came out as Dic rode up to the gate. He did not dismount, but handed her the ribbons across the fence, saying: "Billy Little sends you these for to-night. He said they were from the knot to the sweetbrier." The girl's suppressed delight had been troubling her all day. Her first party, her first escort, and that escort Dic! What more could a girl desire? The ribbons were too much.
She came down to him in the library. "I'm only troubling you for a moment," he said. "I'll relieve you of my package." "Very well," said Pauline. "I haven't thought of it since day before yesterday. I'll bring it down to you."
It would soon be ready; ask, man, ask for what you want, for though I am poor I shall take little credit to myself unless I can make you pick up a little and lose that look of a resuscitated corpse." Gabriel smiled sadly. "It is useless your troubling; my stomach is quite gone; a little milk is enough for it, and I am thankful if it retains it."
But Collier, who was searching after breath and not troubling about records, was indignant with Bagshaw, and when Lambert, who said that the sun was in his eyes, missed two catches off consecutive balls, Collier said something to him at the end of the over which disturbed the harmony of our XI. for several minutes.
I suppose it comes from the political situation, the close neighbourhood of a rival race, stronger and more energetic, which fosters in the stolid Dutchman, by way of buckler, this instinctive reticence and cunning. His one idea is to make what he can out of the situation without troubling his head for a moment about his own candour and sincerity.
After a few apologies for troubling him, which Sir Lionel turned aside by protesting that apologies were only due from himself to her, Miss Plympton began to state the object of her visit. "In the first place, Sir Lionel," said she, "I take it for granted that you have heard of the death of Frederick Dalton, Esquire, in Van Diemen's Land."
After all, it is not worth troubling about. I am at your service, Dr. Staunton. We may require one or two other nurses to help us if things are as bad as you fear." "God bless you!" said the doctor. Something very like moisture came into his eyes. He began to blow his nose violently. "Now, Effie, you will do your best at home," he said, turning to his daughter. "This way, please, Miss Fraser."
Then, as if voicing something that was troubling him, "Don't you think a woman pulls a man down as often as she lifts him up, Peter?" "Some say so," said Peter. "Some say so, and they write it, too," said Mitchell. "Sometimes it seems to me as if women were fated to drag a man down ever since Adam's time.
What she had taken off had been carefully wrung out, and lay near her in a bundle. She laughed a little when I told her that I had been troubling about her wetness. "What, with three dry cloaks ready for me?" she said. "I have fared worse on many a wet ride." Then we crossed the little meadow swiftly, and entered the scattered trees of the riverside forest.
Only he didn't do it to amuse me. He was like one of those gramophone records when it's getting into its stride. 'Be calm, Isadore, I said. 'Something is troubling you. Tell me all about it. He clicked some more, and then he got it out. 'Say, are you crazy? What did you do it for?
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