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"The jumping-off place!" you would cry ecstatically, and turn with unerring instinct to the Aromatic Shop. For here is where begins the Long Trail.
Out through the gates sallied the piebald ponies; and from end to end all Regency Row broke into a roar. Ahead went the troops and the police, pressing back the once more amenable crowd; men and women were weeping, moist handkerchiefs were ecstatically waved, quite new and reputable hats were thrown up into air, and allowed to fall unreclaimed and unregarded.
Sparrows innumerable were holding their noisy, high-spirited disputations; blackbirds were repeating and repeating that deep melodious love-call of theirs, which they have repeated from the beginning of the world, and no ear has ever tired of; finches were singing, greenfinches, chaffinches; thrushes were singing, singing ecstatically in the tree-tops, and lower down the imitative little blackcaps were trying to imitate them.
Jones, and met the two arriving comforters in the front garden. Now Priscilla's and Mrs. Jones's last words together had been these: "Is there anything else I can do for you?" Priscilla had asked, leaning over the old lady and patting her arm in farewell. "No, deary you've done enough already, God bless your pretty face," said Mrs. Jones, squeezing the five-pound note ecstatically in her hands.
'The only book I had left, and I thought I had lost it, he said, looking at it ecstatically. 'So many accidents happen to a man going about alone, you know. Canoes get upset sometimes and sometimes you've got to clear out so quick when the people get angry. He thumbed the pages. 'You made notes in Russian? I asked. He nodded. 'I thought they were written in cipher, I said.
“And I didn’t expect that,” cried Mitya, ecstatically. At home he borrowed three roubles from the people of the house, who loved him so much that they were pleased to give it him, though it was all they had.
There was no mound, but the fresh earth showed just where to dig. "Oh, this is as easy as making change for a blind man!" chuckled the young submarine skipper, rubbing his hands ecstatically. What about the shovel? Jack turned to feel around in the darkness. Really, Millard couldn't be such a very clever fellow! Jack had no difficulty in finding the shovel.
The bedroom opened on one side into a sitting room with a bay window, on the other into a tiny bathroom, shining and gleaming with nickel and tile. "Oh, everything's lovely," and Robin ecstatically clasped her hands. "Only what'll I ever do with everything so big!" Cornelius Allendyce laughed at her dismay.
He had the tattered form of Bob Curtis in his arms in an instant, and great boy though he was, the Delaware lad hugged his father ecstatically and wept. Job and Jeremy, pleased as they were to see this reunion, were hardly comfortable in its presence and made a vain attempt to withdraw gracefully. The merchant was after them before they could reach the door.
Gilbert and Charlie were nowhere to be seen. "Little did I think the day would ever come when I'd be glad of the sight of a Sloane," said Priscilla, as they crossed the campus, "but I'd welcome Charlie's goggle eyes almost ecstatically. At least, they'd be familiar eyes." "Oh," sighed Anne.
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