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Gently shunted into a glass jar, these surprising tads accepted the new environment with quiet philosophy; and when I reached the laboratory and transferred them again, they dignifiedly righted themselves in the swirling current, and hung in mid-aquarium, waiting forever waiting.

Andy clicked his teeth together, thought better of his ill-humor and made reply, though he had intended to remain dignifiedly silent. "Yuh rung the bell, m'son but it ain't any josh. By gracious, I mean it!" He glared at those who gurgled incredulously, and went on: "No, sir, you bet it ain't any josh with me this time.

Oswald noticed that every one round the table where H.O.'s boots were dignifiedly respected as they lay, was a horrid pale colour, like when the salt is thrown into snapdragons. "Oh dear!" Dora cried, "that was it. He asked me to make him a clown's dress and keep it deeply secret. He said he wanted to surprise Aunt Margaret and Albert's uncle.

As fast as he told it, the more or less distorted facts went swiftly round from lip to lip among the squaws and younger people. It was almost unlucky for the Big Tongue to remark, dignifiedly, "Boy find pony. Warrior ride him;" for a half-grown warrior near him added, "Boy there. Big Tongue here. Same way hunt buffalo." It sounded a little like Ha-ha-pah-no, and the Big Tongue was silenced.

"They are better than ours at the church." "Do you think so, my lady?" A pause. Everybody is choosing partners. Tou Tou, grinning from ear to ear, is bidding a bashful button-boy to the merry dance. Father do my eyes deceive me? father himself is leading out the housekeeper. Evidently he is saying something dignifiedly humorous to her, for she is laughing.

Two hours of this fancy, and then the train stopped at a station within a mile or two of a bleak headland, a beacon, and the gray wash of a pewter-colored sea, where a hilly village street climbed to a Norman church tower and the ivied gables of a rectory. Miss Eversleigh, dignifiedly tall, but youthfully frank, as he remembered her, was waiting to drive him in a pony trap to the rectory.

Grampus and calmly, coldly, and dignifiedly announced that his lock was complete, and that he was now about to install it in the Grampus front door. He suggested to Mr.

As for the mulatto waiter, after a moment more of hesitation, he took Ford's order, and walked dignifiedly away, muttering, "Nebber seen de like afore. Reckon I isn't g'wine to tote soup and fish for no nigger: I'll see de boss." That meant an appeal to the lordly and pompous but quite gentlemanly "head waiter," a man as white as Ford Foster.

He cannot hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.

Long Bear stood silently and dignifiedly in front of his lodge waiting for him, and the older warriors were gathering fast to hear the news. They knew very well that no Indian boy would have dared to give such a signal as that without good reason, and their faces were clouding seriously. "Two Arrows speak quick," said his father. "All hear him."