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"Oh!" she returned with a sudden, illuminating smile. "It isn't hard to be brave. But at times I find it hard to be patient." "Patience is one of the cardinal virtues," declared Hollis, "but it takes bravery of a rare sort to remain in this country, surrounded with the care " Her fingers were suddenly over her lips warningly, and he saw Ed Hazelton nearing the porch.
They walked briskly along, however, and had nearly reached the bend when a voice cried warningly: "Look out!" The travelers halted abruptly and the Wizard said: "Look out for what?" "You almost stepped on my Diamond Palace," replied the voice, and a duck with gorgeously colored feathers appeared before them.
"Harry," said the skipper warningly. "All right," said the mate shortly. "I want to speak to you very particularly," he said nervously, and led his listener aft, followed by three of the crew who came to clean the brasswork, and who listened mutinously when they were ordered to defer unwonted industry to a more fitting time.
They joshed Bud, who grinned and took it good-naturedly, and found another five dollars in his pocket to bet this time with Pop, who kept eyeing him sharply and it seemed to Bud warningly. But Bud wanted to play his own game, this time, and he avoided Pop's eyes.
"I feel as if I must know his name," she said. "Madge, help me persuade the Colonel to tell us." She went to him and petted him. "Colonel, you will not refuse me!" Madge looked at him apprehensively, warningly. "An' I reckon you won't refuse me, Colonel." Then, going close to him, she whispered: "Remember, mum's the word!" "Away, you tempters, away!" the Colonel cried, and waved them from him.
The captain ran his eye over the boats and counted the men to see that all had embarked safely. "Don't bring her too close, Hank!" he cried warningly, as he saw the old whaler edge the boat toward him, and stepping on the poop-rail, he jumped into the sea.
"Only," and he sent his voice booming out warningly, "any man who chips in unasked and starts trouble in my house can take what's coming to him." So then Vidal had just arrived, it had been his sudden entrance which had invoked the silence in the barroom. Norton merely shrugged; there had been a chance of taking Vidal alone, intercepting him.
"It's Etna in eruption," said Cosmo to the captain. "A magnificent sight!" exclaimed King Richard, who happened to be on the bridge. "Yes, and I'd like to see it nearer," remarked Cosmo, as a wonderful column of smoke, as black as ink, seemed to shoot up to the very zenith. "You'd better keep away," Captain Arms said warningly. "There's no good comes of fooling round volcanoes in a ship."
Luce had his rubber boots set wide apart, and his tucked-in trousers emphasized the bow in his legs. With those legs and his elongated neck and round, knobby head, Mr. Luce closely resembled one of a set of antique andirons. "You want to look out you don't squdge me too fur in this," said Mr. Luce, warningly. "I've been squdged all my life, and I've 'bout come to the limick.
"Well, I'll tell you; it's because it brings U and I so near together." "Hah!" exclaims Madame Beausoleil, warningly, yet with sunshine and cloud on her brow at once. She likes her companion's wit, always so deep, and yet always so delicately pointed!
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