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Allan looked at the waves which were beginning to jostle one another in mid-channel. 'Just about time, he said. 'Couldn't we show them the inside of the house first, said Marjorie; 'it won't take a minute. 'All right, said Allan, 'but we must be quick. 'Is this where you stay when it is wet, said Harry, as they pushed open the door of the cottage. 'What a jolly place.
The phase upon which little Jan now entered A was as jolly and enjoyable as any form of sheltered dog life could well be. There were no kennels at Nuthill, and it must be admitted that kennel life is never the happiest sort of existence for a dog, though in some establishments it is so organized, as to be a very healthy one.
She knew well that she could not comfort her husband in the anxiety that was gnawing at his heart-strings, but she was jealous of comfort that might come to him from any other source, and the Lethe of wine and jolly companionship she dreaded most of all. Long, long before, she had induced him to promise that he would never offer the young officers spirits in his house.
I tell you, she was one of the handsomest girls in Newport, by George! says he. And says I, 'General, you ought to see her daughter. And the General, you know his jolly way, he laughed, and says he, 'If she is as handsome as her mother was, I don't want to see her, says he. 'I tell you, wife, says he, 'I but just missed falling in love with Katy Stephens."
Doesn't he always go off to the inn and play bowls at this time?" "Why, of course," said Harold. "So he does." And he asked Ann to play something on the piano. And pretty soon we had settled down to a regular jolly musical evening. Ann must have played a matter of two or three thousand tunes, when Harold got up. "By the way," he said.
For, with Miss Polly slipping her little hand in his and guiding him over her namesake, and Freddy telling Tad the story of Dan's dive among the sharks, to which even the man at "The Polly's" wheel listened with interest, with dad so jolly and friendly, and everything so gay and beautiful around him, it was no wonder that Dan's head, accustomed to sober prosy ways, began to turn. "Dolan, Dolan?
I expect I was a good deal distraught and inattentive that morning, recalling what I could of the beautiful strange people I should presently see again. Oddly enough I had no doubt in my mind that they would be glad to see me... Yes, I must have thought of the garden that morning just as a jolly sort of place to which one might resort in the interludes of a strenuous scholastic career.
"I think you better wait a bit, Iskender," he said presently. "I tell you why. Just now there's no trafellers comin' to the country, so the dragomans just stand around and jolly well watch all what you do. We go now, it make a talk. Wait a month or two, in the name o' Moses, then there's lots o' trafellers; they think about makin' money, and go hang! I shan't want no trafellers this year.
"The pneumatic one? Well, we liked it awfully when it came, and we blew it up; and then we thought we'd have a bit of scrum practice one night after dinner, and we rolled it up for a ball, and and the half wasn't nippy enough in getting it away to the three-quarters, and somehow or another it got punctured. But I wear it all right, mother. It's jolly warm at nights."
"He can hear what we say, and he can use his judgment, as we all can." "Must we tell the truth? or say what we have a mind?" "Either you like." "That's jolly!" said one of the boys. "I go in for saying what we have a mind." "Just imagine the nicest things you can," David went on. "To eat?" said Esther. "No, no; you've done enough of that to-day," said Norton.
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