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"We'd just as lief give it away as not, 'cause we've always you, mother dear." "Is the money more than grandmother's gold dollar?" asked Ethelwyn. "Much more." "O, then we'll have fun spending it for folks; I'd like to. But, oh, I'm hungrier than I ever was before." "Me, too," said Beth. "I feel a great big appeltite inside me."
"Why, Mother Baucis, it is a feast!" exclaimed Quicksilver, laughing, "an absolute feast! and you shall see how bravely I will play my part at it! I think I never felt hungrier in my life." "Mercy on us!" whispered Baucis to her husband. "If the young man has such a terrible appetite, I am afraid there will not be half enough supper!" They all went into the cottage.
"Ah," said Frank again, casting longing eyes at a crisp roll on the counter. "Then why don't yer bide at home," asked the woman, "and work there?" "I want to get more wage," said Frank, who was feeling hungrier every minute with the smell of the bread. "I'll be obliged to yer if ye'll tell me how I could git taken on at the factory."
It's so deeply founded in nature that after denying royalty by word and deed for a hundred years, we Americans are hungrier for it than anybody else. Perhaps we may come back to it!" "Nonsense!"
Undoubtedly he was hungrier than ever he had been in his life, and not only had he seen his supper devoured before his eyes, but there would be nothing to eat in the morning before his long walk to town. With this money he could buy something at the store which he must pass on his way. His recent conversation with Dr. Morgan went through his mind.
He was right, of course; but his conclusion must have been reached by mind-reading, for his logic wouldn't bear it out. But the beggar at the door must be humble, so I accepted his logic as I had accepted his morality. "You see, I am now hungry," I said still gently. "To-morrow morning I shall be hungrier. Think how hungry I shall be when I have tossed bricks all day without anything to eat.
I sent her a long letter, and I have written every mail since, and now we are going to calculate the time when the first letter will arrive, and send a cable to say that you are quite out of danger, and sitting up, and getting hungrier and more mischievous with every day as it passes!" "Thank you," said Peggy warmly. "That's very kind.
'And the hero grocer! shouted Jasper, mirthfully. 'Oh, but it's quite decent; only rather depressing. The decently ignoble or, the ignobly decent? Which is Biffen's formula? I saw him a week ago, and he looked hungrier than ever. 'Ah, but poor Reardon! I passed him at King's Cross not long ago. He didn't see me walks with his eyes on the ground always and I hadn't the courage to stop him.
Maggie began to sob. "But I never, never thought it meant berries and spring-water; no, that I didn't. Oh, I be so hungry!" At this moment all angry recriminations were frozen on the lips of both little girls, for rising suddenly, almost as it seemed from the ground at their feet, appeared a gaunt woman of gigantic make. "Maybe you'll be hungrier," she said in a menacing voice.
Everybody was eating it, when by a common consciousness they were aware of alien witnesses. They looked up as by a single impulse, and saw at the port the gaunt face of a steerage passenger staring down upon their luxury; he held on his arm a child that shared his regard with yet hungrier eyes.
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