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"Merry, Merry Christmas everywhere, Cheerily it ringeth through the air," sang Grace Harlowe joyously as she twined a long spray of ground pine about the chandelier in the hall, then stepping down from the stool on which she had been standing, backed off, viewing it critically.
Liz threw off her hat, and, drawing her chair up to the table, took a long draught from the teacup. 'Eh, that's guid, she said, with a sigh of satisfaction. Ye're better aff than me, efter a', Teen, an' I wish I was in yer place. 'Ye'll bide here noo ye have come, onyhoo, said the little seamstress cheerily. 'My ship has come in; but we'll speak upon it efter. I say, isn't Walter lookin' fine?
"We hope to smoke our pipes before our white brothers go away from us," was what the treacherous chief, with wolfish eyes, had said, in order to put the settlers off their guard. The morning of the fateful day opened gloomily, as if it could not look cheerily down upon the bloody events planned in this distant wilderness.
Bobolink in maple high, trills a note of glee, Farmer boy in gay reply now whistles cheerily." The chorus was all whistle, and it was written for folks who could. It went up until it almost split the echoes, and Laddie could easily sail a measure above the notes. He did it too. As for me, I kept from sight. For a week Laddie whistled and plowed.
When inside the village he will lay down his gun, within handy reach, and build the house, tease out fibre to make game nets with, and plait baskets, or make pottery with the ladies, cheerily chatting the while.
The members of the Vigilance Committee in good standing will please meet at No. 105-1/2 Sacramento Street, this day, Thursday, 15th instant, at nine o'clock A.M. By order of the While he was still gazing thoughtfully at this Johnny Fairfax, fresh as the morning, appeared at his elbow. "Hello, wise man," he greeted him cheerily. "You were a good prophet and you got some sleep.
Mary feigned not to notice his profound emotion, and, taking up a paper parcel on the table, opened it, and unrolled a long piece of wonderful old lace, yellow with age, and fine as a cobweb. "Do you mind my going on with my work?" she asked, cheerily "I'm mending this for a Queen!"
The parting bushes disclosed a tall figure, rifle ready, and Robert called cheerily: "Here we are, Dave, back again, and we bring with us a welcome guest. Monsieur Achille Garay was lost in the forest, and, taking pity on him, we've brought him in to share our hospitality. Mr. David Willet, Monsieur Achille Garay of everywhere." Willet smiled grimly and led the way back to the spruce shelter.
One day in the spring he stopped an hour in Washington to bid good-bye, cheerily and simply telling how his doctors had condemned him to Arizona for his lungs. All three friends knew that they were nearing the end, and that if it were not the one it would be the other; but the affectation of readiness for death is a stage role, and stoicism is a stupid resource, though the only one.
"Same as they had over that surplus in the town treasury, hey?" inquired the Cap'n. "What's that you're luggin' in that paper as though 'twas aigs?" "It's one of my plug hats that I was goin' to lend you," explained his friend, cheerily. "I've rigged it up with a cockade. I figger that we can't any of us be too festal on a day like this.
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