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Kitty was lying on the rug, fast asleep, with the doll in her arms. 'I found them like this when I came in, whispered Miss Locke; 'she must have been listening to the music and fallen asleep. How late you have stopped with Phoebe! it is nearly eight o'clock! 'I do not think the time has been wasted, I answered cheerfully, as I bade her good-night and stepped out into the darkness.
I swear to you, Dick, I never had thought of evil till that cursed day which made me reckless and indifferent to everything. And this is the end a wasted life, a felon's doom! Quite melodramatic, isn't it, Richard? Well, we'll play out the last act with spirit. "Enter first robber," and so on. Good-night. He walked away. I never heard him say so much about himself before.
One who came there to meet the strong healthy man, to whom she had said good-bye at the same spot several years before, received him back a worn and wasted invalid, upright still with the martial air of discipline, but feeble, and with something like the stamp of death upon his brow.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
There were others in which he attacked the Papacy and the doctrine of the Papists, who both by their teachings and their wretched examples have wasted Christendom with both spiritual and corporal evil.
He had just sent Speedaway over the seven furlongs in record time, and his heart was big with hope. Drake never wasted ammunition in preliminary skirmishing. He told the joke first and the story afterward. "I've been South. Seen Colonel Desha and Major Calvert," he said tersely. Garrison was silent, looking at him.
"Now, Lloyd Sherman, there's no use in bringing up that old quarrel again," he laughed. "You know we were playing that robbers were coming, and we had to lower our gold and jewels into the well, and you tied the fishing-line around the bank your own self. So I am not to blame if the knot came untied at the very first jerk. We've wasted enough breath arguing that point to start a small cyclone."
A decent, sober man was a mean-spirited fellow; while he who had brought the grey hair of parents in sorrow to the grave, wasted his patrimony and murdered his wife and children, was "King o' men for a' that."
The thought was not new when the danger of death made him look back on those wasted years; and resolution began with the dawning of convalescence, that if he could only free himself from his entanglements and terrible complications they were he would begin a new life, worthy of having been given back to him.
All the while he was stroking the wasted old hand. "Now we may as well retire," said the old lady when she saw that he was calm again. "No," he said, suddenly rising, "I cannot retire yet. There's a stranger without whom I must shelter to-night!" He said nothing further, but quickly drew on his coat, lit the lantern and went out.
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