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Suddenly Tommy cried, "Father, why not give Johnny this sled?" "The very thing!" exclaimed his father with a smile. And Tommy felt quite proud of having suggested it. "I wish it had a place to hitch on the goats," said Tommy, thoughtfully. "Let's make one," said his father; and in a few minutes two holes were bored in the front of the runners.
But she had really meant what she said that morning; she wouldn't see him again. But the thought of seeing Hyacinth under the trees the next morning a secret appointment, too! was certainly consoling. With a sudden sensation of being utterly sick of himself and his feelings, tired of both Hyacinth and Eugenia, and bored to death at the idea of all women, Cecil went to see Lord Selsey.
The Leverings brought a friend to call this afternoon, who has just arrived in Lone-Rock to spend the rest of vacation with them; a grumpy, middle-aged, absent-minded, old professor from the East, who seemed rather bored with us at first. But when he was taken out to the side-show in the 'Zoo, he waked up in a hurry.
He persisted in his scheme of two meals a day, for it had fulfilled the doctor's prediction. He was no longer dyspeptic. That fact alone contributed much to his happiness. Yes, he was happy, because he had a good digestion and a kind heart. The sole shadow on his career was a spasmodic tendency to be bored. 'I miss the daily journey on the Underground, he once said to his wife.
At the door the footsteps halted, and as the Lizard's eyes bored through the darkness in the direction of the other prowler the latter struck a match upon the panel of the door and lighted a cigarette, revealing his features momentarily but distinctly to the watcher in the shadow of the stairway. Then he opened the door and passed out into the night.
"Not you; you will leave this, where you are a little queen, and go and bury yourself three months with that old bachelor, and nobody will ever gather from your face that you are bored to death; and here we are asked to the Cavendishes' next Wednesday, and the Hunts' ball on Friday you are such a lucky girl our best invitations always drop in while you are with us we go out three times as often during your months as at other times; it is your good fortune, or the weather, or something."
They had quarrelled distressingly, several years ago, when he had bored her with references to her "duty," and her influence over Nina, and her obligations to her true self. But that had all stopped long since, and now Isabelle was free to sleep late, to dress at leisure, to make what engagements she pleased, to see the persons who interested her.
Lister smiled with humorous resignation. "I must. The strange thing is, when I left my job before I was keen to get back. Now I'd rather stop and loaf." "Then you were not bored at Winnipeg?" "Not at all," Lister declared. "If it would give me a holiday like this, I'd get hurt again." "I expect the woods get dreary. Then, perhaps, one doesn't make much progress by sticking to the track?
I think this idea of helping unfortunate castaways is getting to be a good thing." "Why, who on earth could have been so cold-blooded as to have bored a hole in our vessel?" cried Arnold. "Surely it wasn't the man whose life we just saved a short time ago!" "I came into this cabin," asserted Harry "and could hear the rush of water. I thought the leak must be here.
The last remark was addressed to the horse, which had stumbled in going down a sharp incline. They were out of the village by this time, and the road was lined on either side by high hedges, which threw a dense shadow over everything. The feeble lamps of the wagonette bored two little yellow tunnels of light on either side.
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