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Kit sat down on the edge of the bed and thought a minute. Life had never presented itself to her in vistas. She lived each day as it came with an unconquerable optimism, such as no one else except Cousin Roxy seemed to possess in the family. "Don't worry, Kit," Mrs. Ellis was wont to say to her, cheerily.
Hobart, as lightly and cheerily as if it had been the putting together of a Christmas pudding, and she were ready for the citron or the raisins, "now all that beautiful china!" She had been here at one great, general party, and remembered the china, although her party-call, like all her others, had been a failure. Mrs.
I had been listening quietly while all this talk went on; but, with a heavy and fast-increasing feeling of depression, I could restrain myself no longer, and exclaimed, "Oh Denham, suppose the poor fellow's killed!" "What, sir!" cried the Sergeant cheerily. "Killed? Who's to kill a chap like that on a dark night? Nobody could see where to hit.
In the meanwhile the man with the leonine head had closed the door on the little party. He came forward eagerly, and raising himself on the tips of his toes, he put his hands on Antinor's shoulder, and with gentle pressure forced him to stoop. Then he kissed him on either cheek. "Greeting to thee, dear friend," he said cheerily. "Thou hast done well to bring the girl.
Did you not know that Melindy Jane Thrasher has a suitor who calls as regularly as he comes to the city?" Mr. Verne laughed cheerily, a circumstance which was so unusual that the domestics in the basement were on the qui vive to see what was the matter. "And you happened to interrupt the lovers I suppose," remarked Mr. Verne in his quaint dry way. "I did nothing of the kind, Stephen.
He hears the winds murmur glad tidings; the woods sleep in the shadow of Almighty wings the stars are the Scriptures of Heaven, the tokens of love, and the witnesses of immortality. Night is the Pilgrim's day. With these words the old man pressed Apaecides to his breast, and taking up his staff and scrip, the dog bounded cheerily before him, and with slow steps and downcast eyes he went his way.
Now, a generation later, a great city covers the sandhills on the west, a growing town lies along the muddy shallows of the east; steamboats pant continually between them from before sunrise till the small hours of the morning; lines of great sea-going ships lie ranged at anchor; colours fly upon the islands; and from all around the hum of corporate life, of beaten bells, and steam, and running carriages, goes cheerily abroad in the sunshine.
In another hundred yards the runaway went crashing off the road, fell, and smashed the cart into smithereens. "Tally-ho! Gone to ground," cried Dale cheerily. "There's a nice little bill for Mr. Baker to pay." And then he told her that one of the most dangerous things a pedestrian can do is to interfere with a bolting horse when there's a vehicle behind it.
He was down coxing his boat, and the thought of this only reminded Telson of his own bad luck, and added to his ill-temper. He was roused from his moody reflections by the approach of two boys, who hailed him cheerily. "What cheer, Telson, old man?" cried King. "How jolly blue you look! What's the row?" "Nothing," replied Telson. "We've just been down to see the boats.
The girls rule the company, carry maps and find roads, see about provisions and carry wounded. We could not get rooms at Dunkirk and so came on to St. Malo les Bains, a small bathing-place which had been shut up for the winter. The owner of an hotel there opened up some rooms for us and got us some ham and eggs, and the evening ended very cheerily.
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