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Still we marched on through high forest and the interminable grass. My wife was dreadfully fatigued. The constant marching in wet boots, which became filled with sand when crossing the small streams and wading through muddy hollows, had made her terribly foot-sore. She walked on with pain and difficulty.
"If this belongs to anybody present, let him step up and claim his property." Mr. Dunlee came forward in amazement, while Jimmy gave a little squeal of delight. "This is mine, thank you, madam," said Mr. Dunlee, looking at the watch closely. It seemed very much battered. "Dreadfully smashed up, isn't it, sir? I can't tell you how sorry I am." Mr. Dunlee shook it, and held it to his ear.
You see at one time I was in the habit of making long monotonous journeys, and they were often exhausting, and," he added, becoming wearied as if at the recollection, "always dreadfully tiresome. As the trail was sometimes very uncertain and dangerous, I rode a very surefooted mule that could go anywhere where there was space big enough to set her small hoofs upon.
It is really comforting to my own sense of impatience and balked zeal to find how many of my pupils are dreadfully concerned about other people's children. This one's heart burns over the little boy next door who is shamefully mismanaged and who already begins to show the ill effects of his treatment. That one has a sister-in-law who refuses to listen to a word spoken in season.
Her cough, and the cold, and want of food and firing, might have been borne had there been some one to talk to. But alone they did their work. Her form was dreadfully shrunken, her hands as thin and bony as those her old mother last stretched over the fire.
I want to learn some new songs, and my children need fitting up for the summer. They are dreadfully out of order and really suffering for clothes." "May we, Mother?" asked Meg, turning to Mrs. March, who sat sewing in what they called 'Marmee's corner'. "You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it.
"Yes I was very solitary," she said, after a pause. "And I am really gregarious dreadfully fond of people! and curious about them. And I think, oddly enough, papa was too." A question rose naturally to his lips, but was checked unspoken. He well remembered Mr.
Actually Kloster brought out his Strad and said I should play on that. It was evident he thought it important for me to play to these particular people, so though I was dreadfully taken aback and afraid I was going to disgrace my master, I was so much touched by this kindness and care for my future that I obeyed without a word.
Her condition seemed as serious as when Sophy had arrived from England, ten months previously, she found the patient propped up among her pillows, weak, apathetic, and terribly wasted. She looked dreadfully ill and her whole appearance was unkempt and strange. "Oh, my dear Aunt Flora," said Sophy kneeling beside her and taking her limp hand, "why did you not let me know?
It was the day after Mrs. Gallilee's interview with her lawyer and this was Carmina's answer, when the governess entered her room, after the lessons of the morning, and asked if she felt better. "Are you still taking medicine?" Miss Minerva inquired. "Yes. Mr. Null says it's a tonic, and it's sure to do me good. It doesn't seem to have begun yet. I feel so dreadfully weak, Frances.
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