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"Ah-h-h!" was her greeting the unbidden, irrepressible, astonished gasp of mixed emotion of a crowd that sees more wonder than it bargained for. The twelve princesses took their place beside her on the dais, six on either side. Immediately behind her Tess and Hasamurti stood. Yasmini's other maids arranged themselves with their backs to the gilded door.
When the train ran down to the dock where they were to take the steamboat Lanawaxa for the other side of the lake, there was a crowd of a dozen or more girls in waiting. A welcoming shout greeted Ruth as she headed the party from the vestibule coach: "S. B. Ah-h h! S. B. Ah-h-h! Sound our battle-cry Near and far! S. B. All! Briarwood Hall!
The glass was dropped; he took a meagre spoonful which he cut, presently, with his knife. He turned then to his neighbors to both his neighbors! They had been talking of the parish church on the hill. "Ah-h-h, ya-as lovely porch isn't it?" "Oh, lovely lovely!" chorussed the two maidens, with assenting fervor.
But there is another shout, another roar, and another engine follows the first; the firemen clinging to it are shouting all together a noise that sounds like 'Ah-h-h! ah-h-h! to warn other things to get out of their way. Soon a third comes, and then follows a great red ladder on wheels, pushed by men on foot that is a fire-escape.
"Yarrahappini's a wilderness, it seems, and she wants me to go up, and take the General with me, for a few weeks." "Ah!" he said. It would certainly solve one of the difficulties. The place was very far away certainly, but then it was Esther's old home, and she had not seen it since her marriage. She would grow strong again there very quickly. "Oh, and Judy, too." "Ah-h-h!" he said.
He nodded at the shimmering strands. "You have never seen hair the color of this, Pierre?" "Non. In all my life not once." "And yet you have seen white women at Fort Churchill, at York Factory, at Lac la Biche, at Cumberland House, and Norway House, and at Fort Albany?" "Ah-h-h, and at many other places, M'sieu.
Peck's favour, but abandoned herself to it with feverish helplessness. "Ah-h-h!" cried Putney, when they were free of the crowd which pressed upon him with questions and conjectures and comments. "What a slump! what a slump! That blessed, short-legged little seraph has spoilt the best sport that ever was.
"Don't you think I ought to tell her first?" "Her first," the mother the mother repeated after him. "Maybe so; I don't care." They kissed. "Good night." "Good night . . . good night . . . good night, dear, darling mother. Good night!" At the batten door of her high, tight garden-fence Mlle. Yvonne, we repeat, let in Mme. De l'Isle and Mrs. Chester. "Mother of ah-h-h!"
Jeff took a long drink; then he gasped out: "Thunder! you was smart to find that flask. Ah-h-h!" "You're in a real bad fix," said the boy. "I am in bad shape," Jeff admitted. "If I'd known I was going to lose the use o' myself like this, I wouldn't ha' been so doggoned keen about my friend leavin' me." "Your friend must be in a partic'lar hurry." "He was that," Jeff murmured.
"Ah-h-h!" he exclaimed, using the back of his hand to wipe mobile lips. "Not since I drank in Tony's have I tasted that stuff! The taste makes me homesick for what never was my home, nor ever can be! Tony's ah!" "What Tony's?" demanded Will, emerging from whispered interludes with Gloria like a man coming out of a dream. "Tony's down near the Battery." "What the Battery, New York ?" "Where else?
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