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"Oh, father, go!" cried Helene, "and take these keepsakes from me to my sister and brothers and mother," she added. She caught up a handful of jewels and precious stones, folded them in an Indian shawl, and timidly held it out. "But what shall I say to them from you?" asked he. Her hesitation on the word "mother" seemed to have struck him. "Oh! can you doubt me?
Conversation appeared the sole resource, except in so far as it was modified by a number of keepsakes and annuals which lay dispersed upon the tables, and of which the young beaux displayed the illustrations to the ladies. Mr.
On separating, it is pleasant to notice, the friends exchanged keepsakes. The four years had lapsed quietly and quickly by, and Hawthorne, who now adopted the fanciful spelling of the name after his personal whim, was man grown.
He was out of the chair before he ceased speaking, his heels striking the floor, bustling about in his prompt, exact manner, examining the few curios and keepsakes on the mantel and tables, running his eyes over the rows of bindings lining the small bookcase; his hand on Jack's shoulder whenever the boy opened some favorite author to hunt for a passage to read aloud to Peter, listening with delight, whether the quotation was old or new to him.
After liberal bequests to each one of his household servants, rich keepsakes to his dear friends, an annuity to the dowager Lady Belgrade, and a princely endowment to found an orphan asylum and children's hospital in the heart of London, he bequeathed the residue of his vast estates, both real and personal, without reserve and without conditions, to his only and beloved child, Salome.
Some keepsakes I gave to Malicious Gossip, Mouth of God, Many Daughters, Water, Titihuti, and others, and drank a last shell of namu with these friends. News of my packing reached far and wide. I had not estimated so optimistically the esteem in which they held me, these companions of many months, but they trooped from the farthest hills to say farewell.
Those from their own guns pass over them with a shrill crescendo, those from the enemy burst among them at rare intervals, or sink impotently in the soft soil. And a dozen Tommies rush to dig them out as keepsakes. Up at the front, brown and yellow regiments are lying crouched behind brown and yellow rocks and stones. As far as you can see, the hills are sown with them.
On the day after Christmas a lady shoved me her presents. They made a truly imposing pile. "There's not a solitary thing in the entire load," said she, "for which I have the slightest use. I cannot retain much of the stuff as keepsakes because of the bulk, and I am neither privileged to sell it or to give it away.
Clam-shells are fashionable keepsakes. You write your name and the date inside one and your friend writes hers in the other and you exchange. MR. PERKINS: "Peter, name the large islands of the world." PETER: "The Island, the British Isles and Australia." This is a true joke and really happened. It's about Mr. Samuel Clask again.
Rest Relief from trench service. Mostly one works constantly when "resting." Ruddy Same as bloody, but not quite so bad. Sandbag A bag which is filled with mud and used for building the parapet. Sentry go Time on guard in the front trench, or at rest at headquarters. Shell hole A pit made by the explosion of a shell. Souvenir Any kind of junk picked up for keepsakes.
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