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Of Mary he caught but passing glimpses; her family seemed determined to make unblushing use of her as long as she was within reach. A couple of days prior to their arrival, John and Zara had quarrelled violently; and for the dozenth time Zara had packed her trunks and departed for one of those miraculous situations, the doors of which always stood open to her.
You can't back out; you promised, you know." "Well, and I'll do it," said Percy testily. "It's no use trying to sleep," declared Joel, in the middle of the night, and kicking the bed-clothes for the dozenth time into a roll at the foot, "as long as I can see Mamsie's eyes. I'll just get up and tackle that Latin grammar now. Whew! haven't I got to work, though!
Yet it was a long tine, after all, before Lehigh managed to score a touchdown. When the time came, however, the visitors also made their kick for goal, and the score was Lehigh, 6; Army, 0. "Humph!" remarked Cadet Haynes, for the dozenth time. All his fellow subs. had moved away from him.
The two cadets climbed the ladder leading to the control deck. Seated in front of the control panel, Tom watched the sweeping hand of the solar clock. Connel paced nervously up and down behind him. Shinny and Alfie stood to one side also watching the great clock. "How much time, Corbett?" asked Connel for the dozenth time. "Junior gets his kick in the pants in ten minutes, sir," replied Tom.
She wore no ornaments, but Imogen, who had felt rather well-dressed when she left home, suddenly hated her gown and hat, realized that her belt and ribbon did not agree, and wished for the dozenth time that she had the knack at getting the right thing which Isabel possessed. "Her clothes grow prettier all the time, and mine get uglier," she reflected. "The Squire says she got points from Mrs.
It was nothing, of course, to walk a hundred yards to the beach and pick up the wood, and she did it. The hurt that stung was the feeling that he was growing indifferent. She felt for the first time an impulse to box his lazy jaws as he yawned and turned over for the dozenth time without rising. He looked for all the world like a bulldog curled up on his bed of grass. She shook him at last.
Then he started up, his eyes shining with the light of a new resolve. "Got an idea?" asked Dan. "Yes," said Joyce. "And you'll call me a fool if I let you in on it now. Wait until I see how it works." With that he hastened from the room. Darrin drew down a book from the bookshelf, and from between its pages extracted a letter from Belle, which he began to read for the dozenth time.
Two months later found T. A. Buck and his sales-manager, both shirt- sleeved, both smoking nervously, as they marked, ticketed, folded, arranged. They were getting out the travelers' spring lines. Entered Mrs. McChesney, and stood eying them, worriedly. It was her dozenth visit to the stock-room that morning. A strange restlessness seemed to trouble her.
"Yes, I hope you'll have a nice time," Pickering Dodge was saying for the dozenth time, with eyes for no one but Polly, "now don't stay away for a year." Polly with her heart full of the boys, who were hanging on either side, answered at random. "Oh, Ben! I can't go," she was exclaiming, and she hid her head on his shoulder, so Pickering turned off. But Joel set his teeth together.
It seemed a long time ere the peddler returned, and when he did come, he brought the most startling news. Hot with fever, August Bordine lifted his aching head for the dozenth time to listen for the returning tread of the queer old peddler. A glad bark from Tige was the first announcement the sick young man had of the return of his queer friend.
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