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"Yes," answered Lena, rather despondently, "but that cannot make much difference to me, except that I shall be so glad if you or Maggie win it." "Oh, Maggie will, certainly," said Bessie, secure in her belief that no one could compete with her sister, now that Lena was supposed to be out of the question and Gracie Howard had decidedly withdrawn from the contest.
We're not far from Kerguelen Land, and though it is now winter time on the island and desolate enough, it would be better our stopping there than wandering about the ocean in the boats, trying to get into the track of the Australian liners, or else making for the Cape, the only place we could steer for." "It's a bad look-out any way," said the captain despondently.
"Yes; but he stands by his nephew right or wrong. He blamed me for checking his nephew's brutality." "This is shameful!" said Hector, warmly. "May I ask, Mr. Crabb, if you have formed any plans?" "No, except to seek a new position!" answered Crabb. "I fear," he added, despondently, "that it may be some time before I am so fortunate. Roscoe, I don't know what to do when I leave the school.
So it would be difficult for her to blacken him in the priest's eyes, as he very well knew what a healthy man required. Mr. Tiralla stretched his mighty limbs and opened his arms wide. Then he said, "Just come here, darling." "What do you want?" The man's spirit of enterprise vanished as he heard her icy tone. "Why don't you speak more kindly to me?" he said despondently.
But now with all the hot feeling there is on the other subject and the natural desire to discredit him " Flaxman shrugged his shoulders despondently. "Rose's maid you know the dear old thing she is came to her last night, in utter distress about the talk in the village. There was a journalist here, a reporter from one of the papers that have been opposing Meynell most actively "
Half-an-hour later William, dried, dressed, brushed, and chastened, descended the stairs as the gong sounded in a hall which was bare of hats and coats, and whose floor shone with cleanliness. "And jus' to think," said William, despondently, "that it's only jus' got to brekfust time." William's father was at the bottom of the stairs. William's father frankly disliked Christmas Day.
"You started off this spring with a rush. You played brilliantly and for a while led the team in batting. Uncle George thought so well of you. Then came this spell of bad form. But, Billie, it's only a slump; you can brace." "I don't know," he replied, despondently. "Awhile back I got my mind off the game. Then people who don't like me have taken advantage of my slump to "
At the same time Elkanah Watson was despondently scanning the subscription books of his Mohawk River enterprise at Albany where "no mortal" had risked more than two shares. The success of the Lancaster Turnpike was not achieved without a protest against the monopoly which the new venture created.
"You know me law," he said; "I never, on any consideration, break into these. You can't sit down to play cards for high stakes with less in your purse, and if I was to change one, be George! they'd all go like a whiff o' smoke. The Lord knows when I'd get a start again then. Bar this money I've hardly a pinny." "Nor me," said Von Baumser despondently, slapping his pockets. "Niver mind, me boy!
At last, in despair, Edie turned up a small side street in Holloway, and stopped at a tiny house with a clean white curtain in its wee front bay window. 'This is awfully small, Ernest, she said, despondently, 'but perhaps, after all, it might really suit us.
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