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We have done our best, and we can do no more." Just then Pen's attention was taken up by the young officer, who came to the door of the hut, yawned, and stood looking about at his men before slowly sauntering round the bivouac as if to see that all was right, the sentries drawing themselves up stiffly as he passed on, till he caught sight of the Spanish girl and the lad seated together in the full light cast by the fire.
'Tant mieux, I hate them, said the captain. 'I wonder how my sister is this morning. 'Would you like a messenger? I'll send down with pleasure to enquire. 'Thank you, no; I'll walk down and see her. And Lake yawned at the window, and then took his hat and stick and sauntered toward Gylingden.
She will not be able to take any part in the Cantata, and she had the sweetest dress!" "Very ill-timed of Providence!" said Louis gravely. "What a pity it is, Isabelle, that you couldn't have the regulation of affairs." He yawned and strolled lazily towards the fireplace. When he looked round again, Evadne was the only other occupant of the room. "Well, coz, what do you think of the situation?
It was largely owing to this lion-hearted courage that I now found myself swiftly borne towards the vacant pulpit which yawned in stately expectation of its weekly candidate. The invitation "to conduct divine services in St. Cuthbert's, whose pulpit is now vacant," had come unsought from the kirk session of that distant temple. St.
And 'twasn't long before the woman died. Now, you can't undertake to do different from everybody else." "Well," said Eli; "I know I wish it was done with." Mr. Eldridge stretched his arms and yawned. Then he began to walk up and down, and hum, out of tune. Then he stopped at Captain Thomas's chair. "Suppose we try a ballot," he said. "He seems to give a little." In a moment the foreman rapped.
The blood receded from Barbara's cheeks, and, as she clung to the window-sill for support, it seemed as though some magic spell had conveyed her to the summit of the highest steeple. Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below.
"That's right you've been taking too much lately. It was a great old party, though, wasn't it?" Laura yawned and gazed listlessly out of the window. "Do you think so?" Not noticing her expression of wearied disgust, he went on: "Yes, for that sort of a blow-out. Not too rough, but just a little easy. I like them at night, but I hate them in the morning. Were you bored?"
In Egypt, the longest way round is not the shortest way home, and that was why Mahommed Selim's court-martial took just three minutes and a half; and the bimbashi who judged him found even that too long, for he yawned in the deserter's face as he condemned him to death. Mahommed Selim showed no feeling when the sentence was pronounced. His face had an apathetic look.
At last silence, broken only by the pacings of other sentries; and once more came from the landing a weary yawn, which was infectious, for in spite of his troubles Frank yawned too, and felt startled. "I can't be sleepy," he said to himself; "who could at such a time?"
Ethel thrilled at the recollection, and thought, "Oh, yes, you're quite a wag, my love; and as soon as you get over being so young you'll probably make a name for yourself. No dinner or suffrage party will ever again be quite complete without your droll dry humour. . . . I suppose I ought to be going to sleep!" And she yawned excitedly.
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