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In this emergency it was the only subject large enough to fill the gap, and much as Flora had liked the idea of it, she had never built the house so large, so vivid, so wonderfully towering to please her fancy as she was doing now to cover Kerr. With questions she led Mrs. Herrick on to spin out the subject, to play it over with lights and shades, to beat all around it.
While she lived, I felt that I had a strong friend to plead for me in any emergency. Ten years ago, while speaking of the state of things in our family, after the events just named, I used this language: Now all the property of my old master, slaves included, was in the hands of strangers strangers who had nothing to do in accumulating it. Not a slave was left free.
Two determined looking aeronauts were leaning from the heavily laden car. "Need anything?" shouted the Arrow cordially. "In good shape," answered Ned, "but a little short on provisions." "Plenty here," came quickly from the Arrow, "glad to exchange fifty-pound emergency rations for ballast." "All right," responded Ned, "stand by to make a line fast."
She will travel fifty miles without stopping, and on an emergency, one hundred and twenty; and occasionally neither she nor her rider has tasted food for three whole days." "O, father, how dreadful! I should think she would sink down and die." "No doubt, my dear, both she and her master endured much suffering.
And so the Dummy's Avenue Girl met her turn and rode down the street in a clanging ambulance, and was taken up in the elevator and along a grey hall to where the emergency bed was waiting; and the Probationer, very cold as to hands and feet, was sending mental appeals to the Senior to come and come quickly. The ward got up on elbows and watched. Also it told the Probationer what to do.
Besides, there may be times when a pair of skates would be handy going over the glaciers. It's not called Glacier Park for nothing, I dare say. When we went into the Maine woods we went unprepared. This time I intend to be ready for any emergency." But we gave her little encouragement. We would go along, and told her so. But further than that I refused to prepare. I would not skate, and said so.
Had he waited another minute, he would have marked a fresh actor appear at Manton Corner, would have witnessed the dénouement of the scene, and had that to tell when he descended, which must have allayed in a degree, not only the general alarm, but Sir George's private apprehensions. It is when the mind is braced to meet a known emergency that it falls the easiest prey to the unexpected.
"I am sure they will be very tired and hungry, and, besides, we have plenty in the larder for everyone, a whole ham!" she added archly. "Dear me, I wish Billie were here," said Miss Campbell. "I believe she always keeps things stored away in the 'Comet' for an emergency." "I'll beat up some Johnnie cakes," announced Amy. "We can cook those on the wood fire later."
Accustomed to let his impulses direct him on all other occasions, Allan acted on impulse in the serious emergency that now confronted him. Though his attachment to Miss Gwilt was nothing like the deeply rooted feeling which he had himself honestly believed it to be, she had taken no common place in his admiration, and she filled him with no common grief when he thought of her now.
As ladies are not supposed to have to ride "difficult" horses, a chapter on the best means of managing such animals may appear superfluous; but even the steadiest animal is apt to go wrong at times, and as forewarned is forearmed, it is best for us to know how to act in cases of emergency.