Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
"And now we may go home and make our mourning weeds," said Priscilla with a petulant half-sob, half-laugh, as she and Mary Chilton turned away from the wheatfield on the hill. "Nay, John Alden will come home safe, I'm sure on 't," said Mary gently, but her vivacious friend turned sharply upon her.
He was borne of my anguish, he was fed and tended by me, and he was dependent on me in all things." She said, with a half-sob, "My poet, he was so little and so helpless! Now he is dead." "My dear, my dear!" he cried, and he took both her hands. "I also had a son. He would have been a man by this." They stood thus for a while. And then he smiled. "I ask your pardon.
And then the deep potential impulse came, and with a half-sob, half-sigh, she threw her arms out and drew the body of the sleeping child down, down, into her breast, down again and again as if she would hide it in the grave dug there years before. And the gust that shook her passed, and then, ah me! the rain. A drop or two fell upon the curls of Carry, and she moved uneasily in her sleep.
She suddenly lowered her eyes, the warm flush spreading to her throat, her neck, her ears. She caught her breath in a half-sob. Both had forgotten the tall woman who stood over there by the window, her hands clasped, her heart in the eyes that looked upon them. They did not see the beatific smile that came to her colorless lips.
Her voice shook and her laugh ended in a half-sob. "No oh no!" returned her mother quaintly. "Sometimes hot milk is better. Here, where is my share of those cakes?" She helped herself, went around the table, and sat down. "Cousin Parnelia was here this morning," she went on. "Poor old idiot, she was certain that planchette would tell who it was that stole our chickens.
"Oh, yes some time," she murmured from his breast. "Well, when?" he persisted. "Just any time?" "No, dear, of course not!" A muffled sound that was half-sob and half-laugh came with the words. Dick waited for a space, and then very gently began to feel for the hidden face.
"Please be good-natured." "Be good-natured yourself," said Tommy, with a half-sob. "I'm I'm perfectly mis'able, Judy Jameson " It was then that Judy showed that she could be womanly and sympathetic. "I'm sorry I teased you, Tommy," she said, softly. "Let's make ourselves comfortable here on the sand, and I'll tell you about when I used to live in Europe."
You must wear the blue or stay at home. What shall I tell him?" There was a pause, then there came an inarticulate word and a choking half-sob. The next moment the door opened and Mrs. Blaisdell appeared. The pink spots in her cheeks had deepened. She shut the door firmly, then hurried through the room to the hall beyond. Another minute and she was back in her chair.
Lassalle seized her hands. "There I recognize my soul's mate." "And I recognize the voice of the von Bulows," she said, with a half-sob in her laughter, as she drew back.
Therewith she caught her breath in a half-sob, but refrained her and went on: "Now dear friend and darling, take good heed to all that I shall say to thee, whereas thou must do after the teaching of my words.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking