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"No, I must go if the noise keeps up continually like this." "Well, it won't ... we have a special job to finish ... tin-roofing ... but if you want a place to stay where it is quiet, I have a camp, not far out, on the Ossawatomie, where I go for week-ends...." "Where is it? That would be fine. I'd like to stay there."
"'I used to be home for the week-ends very often, and sometimes if the ship were held back for cargo I would have a whole week at a time, and in this way I saw a deal of my sister-in-law, Sarah. She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like a spark from a flint.
Yes, he said, he had known him well; he was a merchant in Buenos Ayres, a nice gentle-mannered man, a bachelor and something of a recluse in his private house, where he lived alone and spent all his week-ends and holidays roaming about the plains with his vasculum in search of rare plants. He had been long dead oh, quite twenty or twenty-five years.
During the early days on The Evening Sun he had a room in a little house at 108 Waverly Place, and took his meals in the neighborhood where he happened to find himself and where they were cheapest. He usually spent his week-ends in Philadelphia, but his greatest pleasure was when he could induce some member of his family to visit him in New York.
"Lady Crawleigh wants me to go down there next week-end, but I'm too busy; and week-ends simply wear me out." "You have made yourself popular with them all at once!" Sybil commented. "What's Lady Barbara like?" "Interesting girl," Eric answered, casually. "Is she anything like what people make her out to be?" Eric smiled tolerantly.
It was decided that Emily should stay here to look after Joe, and that he should run up for his week-ends. In the meantime, as his business improved, he began to bring Ethel little surprises, candy or spring flowers, and to take her out in his car at night. They went to the theatre several times. And everything which was said or done upon such occasions gave Ethel food for thinking.
Of course, we can't occupy them all the time, at present, not until school is closed, but we constantly go out there over night to watch the summer coming and for week-ends." "Oh! the lake and the woods around it are more wonderful now than at any other season of the year," put in one of the older girls, an Assistant-Guardian.
Ruyler was one of his few intimate friends and had promised to go to this farewell dinner if possible. A place would be kept vacant for him until the last minute. The Gwynnes and the Thorntons until Ruyler met Hélène had been the friends whose society he had sought most in his rare hours of leisure, and he had spent many summer week-ends at their country homes.
Maury's mother lived with her married son in Philadelphia, and there Maury went usually for the week-ends, so one Saturday night when Anthony, prowling the chilly streets in a fit of utter boredom, dropped in at the Molton Arms he was overjoyed to find that Mr. Noble was at home. His spirits soared faster than the flying elevator.
We'll keep on in the shop and have sleep-out vouchers and come here week-ends." As the manner is, the mother wept. "You've nothing to worry about," Lisbeth assuaged her sister. "He's steady and respectable. We must see that she does it in style. You look after the other arrangements and I'll see to her clothes."
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