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'We are going to the Abbey for a nice long day, taking our dinner with us, and coming round to Aunt Betsy's to tea on our way home, said Bessie, as if she were proposing an entirely novel excursion; 'and we want you to come with us, Ranie. Miss Rylance stifled a yawn.
I was not sneering at the little note, and it went into my breast pocket, but it amused me. "That is the way I ought to write for the British, I suppose?" I muttered, with a yawn. "Muddle all one's language up until nobody has the faintest idea of what the author's sentiments are, and then they don't know whether he means anything heterodox or not." I got up.
She first sends us Confidence, which with extended hand and open heart says to us: "Behold, I am thine forever!" Lukewarmness follows, walking with languid tread, turning aside her blonde face with a yawn, like a young widow obliged to listen to the minister of state who is ready to sign for her a pension warrant.
As Peter passed into his room, the old negress called after him to remind him to bring the light back when he was through with it. This time something in her tone alarmed Peter. He paused in the doorway. "Are you sick, Mother?" he asked. The old woman gave a yawn that changed to a groan. "I I ain't feelin' so good." "What's the matter, Mother?"
Before the tent they drew rein. In response to Billy's call a rough-bearded fellow lifted the tent flap and stood suppressing a yawn, as if visitors to his lonely claim were of daily occurrence. "Say, friend," said Billy, "do you know Newman's ranch?" "Sure," returned the prospector. "Well, this is Mr. Newman. A young lady has been visiting him and his wife. She disappeared night before last.
And now the wizard began calling down a magic sleep upon those in the hut, and one by one they sank to sleep and began to snore. And fewer and fewer remained awake; at last there were only two. But then one of those two began to yawn, and at last rolled over and snored. And now the great finder of hidden things began calling down sleep with all his might over that one remaining.
He was absent-minded, monosyllabic, sighed deeply and often, and could not always conceal the traces of secret tears. For Tryon was young, and possessed of a sensitive soul a source of happiness or misery, as the Fates decree. To those thus dowered, the heights of rapture are accessible, the abysses of despair yawn threateningly; only the dull monotony of contentment is denied. Mrs.
Be seated, I beg." Here certain very elaborate contortions and swellings of her interesting countenance suggested that she was repressing a good-sized yawn, and she was obliged to rearrange her features with both hands before she could continue. "Thought conquers matter, as Plauto I should say as Platus very rightly obesrved."
All farther conversation was broken by Kenrick, who at this moment awoke with a great yawn, and looking at his watch, declared that they ought to have been in bed long ago. "Good-night, Ken; I hope we shall sleep as sound as you," said Power. "Walter here will dream of skeletons and moonlit precipices, I bet," said Kenrick. "Not I, Ken; I'm far too tired. Good-night, both."
When he came to the last entry, in which, while the size of the mountains was mentioned with some approval, the saltness of the hotel butter was made the subject of severe comment, he shut the book up with a yawn.
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