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The fair little golden-haired Ariadne shaded her eyes with one arm, and stretched the other after her Theseus, till the vessel grew smaller, and finally seemed to melt away into the eternal blue. Many be the wives and lovers that have watched those little fishing-craft as they went gayly out like this, but have waited long too long and seen them again no more.
"I've kidded him about women before, and he never got sore. He must be in love!" Riding through a saccaton basin, the green-brown tips so high that they caught at their stirrups as they rode slowly along; a white, smiling sky above them and Blakeley's still three miles away, Miss Benham and Trevison were chatting gayly at the instant the banker had received Corrigan's blow.
It need only be said that when Shelby's men rode gayly home again, John Appleman was not in their company. He had met an old friend in the turbulent City of Mexico; had, with due permission, abandoned the ranks of the wild riders, and had fled away to where were supposable peace and quiet. There was something of cowardice in his action now.
He himself was accustomed to declare that though he had lived gayly, he had lived decently, too, and he was even inclined at times to flatter his vanity rather upon the things which he had left undone than upon those more evident achievements which had stamped him to his social world.
That is a great deal for one day and under a peaceful dictator." Sergius flushed. "I shall not claim them," he said. "Doubtless, Decius would have both slain the fellow and saved himself had I not come up " "No modesty! no modesty!" cried Hostilius, gayly. "I assure you it is even less Greek than Roman in these days.
Hope, all at once, with one of those fitful impulses of the imagination, that were common in his temperament, revived in him, while the enthusiastic ardor that had impelled him to enlist one night again surged through his veins and swelled his heart with confidence of victory. "Why, of course, Corporal," he gayly replied, "we shall give them a basting!"
You know it's not worth the trouble. Remember that fifty miles you've come to-day!" The occupants of the motor snapped a camera and hummed away. They had no prevision of being stuck halfway up Crazy Woman's Hill with no water within fifteen miles, or they wouldn't have exclaimed so gayly at the beauty and picturesqueness of the tired cowboy. "He looks like a movie hero, doesn't he?" said a girl.
Indeed, Maria really looked pretty again in this charming costume. During the last few months her cheeks had filled out and she had gotten some lovely curves of girlhood. Her eyes shone with a peculiar brilliancy, her red lips trembled into a smile, her hair, in a fluff above her high forehead, caught the light. Maria laughed gayly. "Take care, father, or you will make me vain," she said.
But Nan had dropped her negligee about her feet, and was convulsed at the figure made of her slim young body by the distorted mirror. "Come here, Milt," she gasped. She clung to him, gurgling with laughter, pointing one shaking finger at the monstrosity in the glass. "Look look what you married!" They dressed gayly. His optimism and enthusiasm boiled over again.
"Me know, me careful," smiled Leloo, and mounting his cayuse, trotted off gayly, just as the sun was lost behind a grim, rocky peak in the west. But the "boss" was right: night comes quickly in the mountains, and this night was unusually dark.
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