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His eyes were the most remarkable blue she had ever seen. "Cousin Polly has been telling us most pleasant things about you," she observed. "Your cousin Polly?" he inquired, perplexed. "Yes; we're cousins now," announced Polly happily. "It's the first time I ever had any relations, and I'm tickled stiff!" "So am I!" agreed Johnny heartily, figuring vaguely that somebody or other must have married.
Willard," said the major to his adjutant, as the couriers mounted and rode away, "send one platoon over to Gamble's camp it'll take 'em all day and another back on the trail of the teamsters, and see what they can find of the outfit. They'll have to hunt for it themselves. The hunters say they wouldn't go back for a million apiece." The adjutant was figuring in his note-book.
In these instances Dunstan seemed to be engaged in the cause of religion, and might be considered as a zealous, though mistaken, advocate of Christian simplicity and purity. But he was not contented with figuring merely as a saint. He insinuated himself into the favour of Edred, the grandson of Alfred, and who, after two or three short reigns, succeeded to the throne.
"Say, do you really expect to come back tonight, or are you figuring on staying out a whole week?" he asked plaintively; at which Jack, taking compassion on him, hastened to assure Toby there was no cause for worry. "You know Steve's weakness," he went on to say aside, "and of course he is always in deadly fear of starving to death.
His reading was laborious, his spelling was eccentric, his figuring he did on the tips of his heavy fingers, and his writing he executed with his tongue in his cheek and his ponderous thumb down on the pen nib. "What letter is that, Pete?" she said, pointing with her knitting needle to the page of a book of poems before them. Pete looked up in astonishment. "Is it me you're asking, Kitty?
Knowing full well that he only makes a hundred and fifty dollars a month, you admit to an endeavor to stick him for fifty dollars' worth of cablegrams from this end, not to mention those from his end. If you had spent your time, sir, figuring out a way to cut down that cable expense, instead of discovering a rotten way to get rid of it Why, look here!
"Sinking in mid-ocean, at the depth which prevails where the accident occurred," said Captain James Parton, manager of the company, "absolutely precludes any hopes of salvage." In the life insurance offices there was much figuring over the lists of those thought to be lost aboard the Titanic. Nothing but rough estimates of the company's losses through the wreck were given out.
We were almost on our own doorstep before I guessed the meaning of the business. 'Is your morning's work finished? I said. 'Our morning's walk? he asked innocently. 'I said "work". He smiled blandly. 'I reckoned you'd tumble to it. Why, yes, except that I've some figuring still to do. Give me half an hour and I'll be at your service, Major.
Everything tends to show that his convelescence will be brief; and who knows even if at our next village festivity we shall not see our good Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure? Honour, then, to the generous savants!
That was the final decision. Yet he sat there, still figuring the persons of the woman and the child trudging down the road towards him, and as he gazed, without conscious effort, the forms changed. The boy grew to manhood: the woman took to herself youth, youth with a crown of golden hair and the form of Patricia. A throb of exultation leapt through him.
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