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At first, when her husband came up for his weekends, he was quite evidently pleased with his arrangement. And it would take a self-confidence which had long since gone a-glimmering out of her, to break in on his enthusiasm with any criticism of his provisions for her comfort; certainly no criticism on any basis of noise.
At length the party stood upon the summit, with a dozen wild outliers of the Cumberland and the intervenient coves below their feet; then came a vast spread of undulating country to the eastward, broken here and there by parallel ridges; and beyond rose mountains brown, and mountains purple, and still further, mountains blue; and still beyond and above, a-glimmering among the clouds, so high and so vague, apparently so like the gossamer texture of the vapor that one could hardly judge whether these congeners of the very heavens were earth or sky, mythical peaks or cloud mountains the Great Smoky Range.
"Saint-Prosper has come back, and he's going to marry Constance!" "Eh? What? I don't be Who told you?" demanded the count, sharply. "Well, you needn't take my head off! She did, if you want to know." "Miss Carew?" "Herself!" The nobleman lolled back in his chair, a dark look on his face. Here were fine hopes gone a-glimmering! "Pardie! the creditors will have to wait awhile," he thought.
I said that I was sorry I didn't have a leg or two gone, but it couldn't be helped. While waiting for the Board, I was sent to the German Prison Camp at Winnal Downs as corporal of the permanent guard. I began to fear that at last they had found something that I could do without damaging anything, and my visions of the U.S.A. went a-glimmering.
And when Tim fished a damp cigarette from his shirt, nonchalantly scraped a match on his host's table, blew a cloud of smoke, and sprawled back with one leg dangling over a chair arm, formality went a-glimmering. "A quem madruga Deus ajuda," laughed the coronel. "Or, as you North Americans put it, 'God helps those who help themselves. Let us not be ceremonious, gentlemen.
It is one thing to build up a great government, with numerous political appointments at one's disposal, and another to stand by and keep it running smoothly and efficiently, when a lot of disappointed politicians, who have seen their last hope of political preferment go a-glimmering, are throwing sand into the bearings of the machine.
His vision of little dinners, of drives together, of impromptu luncheons, of a steady siege in which the sheer warmth of that passion in him should force capitulation to his love all those pleasant dreams went a-glimmering.
I think during the seventh round, Clancy had seen his fifteen thousand going a-glimmering and Riley was no less emphatic than Flynn. There were but three more rounds three rounds in which the Sailor could regain his lost ground and the heavyweight laurels that seemed to be slipping from him. When the gong clanged, it was immediately to be seen that Clancy's whole plan of battle had changed.
And there my fine door mat goes a-glimmering!" Investigation proved that Steve's fears were realized. The terrific discharge at such close quarters had so riddled the skin of the wildcat that it was not worth attempting to save. "What a shame!" said Steve, as he got up again after examining the dead beast. "He was a jim-dandy, too.
You ought to be ashamed to round me up with something scientific and materialistic every time I go a-glimmering. Don't you think this would be a fine place to have lunch?" "You wait and see where we lunch today, and you will have the answer to that," said Linda, starting back to the Bear Cat.
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