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It was strange to Peer to lie awake at night in this great room in the dim light of the night-lamp; it seemed as if beings from the land of the dead were stirring in those beds round about him. But in the daytime, when friends and relations of the patients came a-visiting, Peer could hardly keep from crying.
Something it seemed must happen to prevent this long-dreamed-of journey; it did not seem possible that the stars should run placidly in their courses, while Ruth and Mollie Farrell were going a-visiting with a box full of fineries! Yet the day did break, an ordinary, grey morning, with no sign to distinguish it from another.
"Well, you can go visiting instead," returned Madelon, suddenly. "I'd rather go a-visiting here!" cried Burr, with a quick fervor, and he turned back and came close to her. Madelon looked at him sharply, steeling her heart against his tender tone, but he met her gaze with passionate eyes. "Oh, Madelon, you look so beautiful to-night!" he whispered, hoarsely. Her eyes fell before his.
Immediately half the camels lurched to their feet with horrid sounds, began to turn round like teetotums and went a-visiting among their friends. Order became chaos. The exhausted but undaunted fatigue were about to dive into the welter, when the officer observed the approach of the O.C. camel escort with his men in all their war-paint, ready for the march.
"Are you-going to take everybody on the trip?" asked Miss Wingate, roused out of her woe by the very idea of the tour in the company of the seventeen. "That we are," responded the widow heartily, "but not all to onct. We'll have to make two bites of the cherry. The day after the wedding we are a-going to take the two-horse team, a trunk and the ten youngest and go a-visiting over the Ridge at Mr.
Aimee could hardly attend to Molly for her anxiety as to what her boy was doing and eating; yet she said nothing. Roger took the end of the table opposite to that at which sate grandfather and grandchild. After the boy's first wants were gratified the squire addressed himself to Molly. 'Well! and so you can come here a-visiting though you have been among the grand folks.
After their day in the enervating furnace heat the breeze seemed biting, and the garage roof was perilously slippery. Mother slid and balanced and slid on the roof, irritably observing, "I declare to goodness I never thought that at my time of life I'd have to sneak out of a window on to a nasty slippery shed-roof, like a thief in the night, when I wanted to go a-visiting."
"Uncle Daniel told me. He has Richard Carvel's diary." "And a very honorable record it is," exclaimed the Colonel. "Jinny, we shall read it together when we go a-visiting to Culvert House. I remember the old gentleman as well as if I had seen him yesterday." Virginia appeared thoughtful. "Pa," she began, "Pa, did you ever see the pearls Dorothy Carvel wore on her wedding day?
I saw your smoke a-curling way back from home, sir, and I've come a-visiting 'long o' you, Mister Outlander." Another sweeping curtsey reduced Truedale to helpless mirth and he fairly shouted, doubling up as he did so. The effect of his outburst upon the young person within was tremendous. She seemed turned to stone.
If either had been out, we might be poor this very minute. It is generally understood that when Fortune goes a-visiting, she goes disguised, so it's small wonder Dad didn't recognize her at first.
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