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None of their own men can afford time to go. And I got the chance, a very good one for me but I tire you." "No; oh, no," said Miss Knowles politely. "You are very interesting." "Then you shouldn't fidget and yawn. You lay yourself open to misinterpretation. To continue: a very great chance for me.
"There, I guess that is the end of <i>that</i> pest," Mollie had said when she had recovered a little from her mirth. "I imagine we won't see him around these parts again." "I hope not," Betty had answered with a satisfied little yawn. "Wasn't he too funny in that checked suit and awful green necktie? Poor old Percy! I suppose he can't help it. He probably just grew that way."
"I was going through that very town," said the officer, "and a fellow, shaved and sheared like a convict, got aboard and sat down in the same seat with me. As we passed the penitentiary, he turned with a yawn and said, in a matter-of-fact way: "'That's where Morgan is kept, isn't it?" and then he drew out a flask.
Suppose a vast graveyard, surrounded by a lofty wall, with only one entrance, which is by a massive iron gate, and that is fast bolted. Within are thousands and millions of human beings, of all ages and classes, by one epidemic disease bending to the grave. The graves yawn to swallow them, and they must all perish. There is no balm to relieve, no physician there.
He had an old-fashioned contempt for writings in what he called the "dialettale," and he loved the solemn injuvenations of the Latin tongue. Soon, as he listened, he would begin to yawn, and presently grunt and rise and depart, flinging a contemptuous word at the matter of my reading, and telling me at times that I might find more profitable amusement.
"No; although that would be fun," said Helen. "Oh, dear! Can't we take it easy this evening?" whined Heavy, after a mighty yawn. "I was so hungry " "You shouldn't give way to that dreadful appetite of yours, Jennie Stone!" cried Belle Tingley. "If there's any fun afoot I want to be in it." "Come on!
"Bad Indians up that way?" he asked, with a laugh to ease matters a little, while Simpson, too sleepy to notice this subtle by-play, moved off to bed with a prodigious yawn; "or or anything wrong with the country?" he added, when his nephew was out of hearing. Hank met his eye with something less than his usual frankness. "He's jest skeered," he replied good-humouredly.
Then they heard distinctly a fluttering knock at the door, timid but continuous. Feigning a yawn, Stefano growled, "Who's there at this hour?" The answer came in a woman's voice, saying, "Open, open, in the name of high God." It brought every head into the air again, but hushed every breath. The shepherd broke the silence with a groan.
If we had no spiritual asbestos to protect our souls, we should be consumed to no purpose by every wanton flame. If our sincere and restful indifference to things which concern us not were shaken by every blast, we should have no available force for things which concern us deeply. If eloquence did not sometimes make us yawn, we should be besotted by oratory.
"I beg your pardon," mumbled the skipper humbly. And he relapsed into sullen silence, feigning sleep again simply to escape her steady gaze. She watched him awhile, then giving an inquiring glance at Little, adjusting his curtains and pillow, she left the room, and silence once more settled down that lasted until Little emerged from his drugged sleep and sat up with a noisy yawn.
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