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"Father, why do you cry so?" says Frank, with the tears of dreadful sympathy starting from those eyes of childhood. "Why, papa?" mimes little Nelly. Answer them, if you dare! Try it; what words blundering, weak words choked with agony leading nowhere ending in new and convulsive clasps of your weeping, motherless children!
The young man sees that the quickest way to get them started is to obey, so he manages to reach the saddle in front of the professor, who clasps his arms about him and holds on. This done, they clatter on again. It soon becomes evident that their pursuers gain upon them rapidly, despite their best efforts. There can be but one end to the race, and this is in plain view.
Come, now, I will make fair exchange. I will trade you again my blanket clasp for that one little shoe!" I felt in the pocket of my coat, and held out in my hand the remnants of the same little Indian ornament which had figured between us the first night we had met. She grasped at it eagerly, turning it over in her hand. "But see," she said, "one of the clasps is gone." "Yes, I parted with it.
'I bring my Love this goodly pearl Across the seas, he said: 'A gem to deck the dearest girl That ever sailor wed! She clasps it tight' her eyes are bright: Her throbbing heart would say 'He thought of me he thought of me When he was far away!
He gave her a parcel, smiled at her without saying a word, kissed her hand earnestly, and was gone again. Fleda ran to her own room, and took the wrappers off such a beauty of a Bible as she had never seen; bound in blue velvet, with clasps of gold and her initials in letters of gold upon the cover.
"Now, sir," said the constable to the bearded man, after he had made a note of my story. "What is it they 'ad of you, sir?" "A shagreen leather pocket-book," said the man. "There it is." "This one?" said the constable. "Yes." "Oh," said the constable, opening the clasps, so that he could examine the writing on the leaves. "What's inside?" "A lot of figures," said the man. "Sums.
Methinks his spirit remains here as well as that dust, which, uncommunicable though it be, is more precious in its nothingness than aught else widowed earth clasps to her sorrowing bosom.
But what impressed Irene far more than all this magnificence, was the figure of the Sultana Asseki, to whom she was now conducted. A tall, muscular lady was sitting at the end of the room on a raised divan. Her figure was slender round the waist but broad and round about the shoulders. Her snow-white arms and neck were encircled by rows of real pearls with diamond clasps.
Travers but busied himself in giving her the means to alter her personal appearance. It was then that the sea-chest in the deckhouse was opened for the first time before the interested Mrs. Travers who had followed him inside. Lingard handed to her a Malay woman's light cotton coat with jewelled clasps to put over her European dress. It covered half of her yachting skirt. Mrs.
As he undid the clasps a faint odor like that of long dead rose-leaves came like a breath on the air, ... he opened it, and saw that its pages consisted of twelve moderately thick sheets of ivory, which were covered all over with curious small characters finely engraved thereon by some evidently sharp and well-pointed instrument.
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