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But Ethelyn had no taste for study, and she flounced herself into her chair and unwillingly took up her books. "Now, Ethelyn," said Miss Morton, "you must learn that history lesson to-day. You've dawdled over it so long, that it has become a real bug bear to you. But I'm sure if you determine to conquer it, you can easily do so. Just try it."
He had not, however, been successful in gaining the attention of his friends down-stairs, so he dawdled off to make an experiment in another quarter. "Why, you're not coming into the nursery now, Master No. 8, surely! I can't do with you fidgetting about among all the clothes and packing. There isn't a minute to spare. You might keep out of the way till I've finished."
This vault was devoted to us and to our play-boxes: by a tacit law, no master entered it. One evening, just at dusk, a great number of us were here when the bell for night-school rang, and many of us dawdled at the summons. Mr. B., tactless in his anger, bustled in among us, scolding in a shrill voice, and proceeded to drive us forth.
"Were they?" he says, taking his cigar out of his mouth, and lifting his handsome and severe iron-gray eyes to mine. "They were farther off than you thought, were not they? I began to think you had not been able to find them." "Have we been so long?" I say, surprised. "It did not seem long! I suppose we dawdled. We began to talk bah! it is growing chill! let us go home!" Mr.
She dawdled about, started the phonograph going, read a little in a magazine, and seemed generally distraught. As she sat in the big, pleasant hall, she saw Farnsworth come in, go to the library and sit at his desk writing. Apparently this was one of the days when he did not go to New York. Patty came by spoke cheerily to Azalea as she passed her, and then went on to speak to Bill.
Hillyard could only move slowly through the press. Every one dawdled. Hillyard dawdled too. He passed the Opera House, and a little further down saw across the carriage-way, Lopez Baeza in front of a lighted tobacco shop at the corner of a narrow street. Hillyard crossed the carriage-way and Baeza turned into the street, a narrow thoroughfare between tall houses and dark as a cavern.
Here, in this valley of sleeping Pharaohs, in this eternal city of a lost civilization, she had been transformed into another creature. These thoughts jumbled themselves together in her mind, as they dawdled back to the camp, the happy dawdling of lovers. Suddenly Michael caught her in his arms and said, "Meg, how on earth am I going to make you understand how much I love you?"
At such times San Francisco, The Billow, and O'Hara seemed very far away, lost in a remote past, shadows of dreams that had never happened. He found it hard to believe that he had known any other life than this of the wild, and harder still was it for him to reconcile himself to the fact that he had once dabbled and dawdled in the Bohemian drift of city life.
I believe both parties meet with the feeling of something like novelty. We have not worn out our jests in daily contact. There is also a disposition on such occasions to be courteous, and of course to be pleased. Wrought all day, but rather dawdled, being abominably drowsy. I fancy it is bile, a visitor I have not had this long time. December 10.
"Try it," called the ex-nurse with laconic scorn, "I'll allow you the full hour for the experiment." It must have been a very full hour indeed, to judge from Bea's feelings as the minutes dawdled past. It seemed to her that instead of flying with their sixty wings, according to the rhyme, each minute trailed its feathers in the dust as it shuffled along.
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