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"Come on, Art; let's agree on a general scheme, and then you can boss this side of the room and I'll take the other." "Ruth! Ruth! you're wanted," called a half-dozen voices at once, and Ruth stopped her work to find John, Mr. Hamilton's man, waiting at the door with a good-sized box. "It's just come by express, Miss Ruth," said John, "and 'twas labeled Town Hall, so Mrs.
At which Kane's cautiousness again embarrassed him. A little brandy from the bottle labeled "Vini Galli" seemed to be indicated, but his inexperience could not determine if her relaxation was from bloodlessness or the reacting depression of alcohol.
When they reached the station, they found out first how much the tickets were, then, when the trunk had been labeled and the ticket bought, they stood watching the rails, both too much occupied in wondering what the train would be like to think of the sad cause of this journey.
I sold him the arsenic about an ounce and a half and labeled the bottle in which I put it with the word 'Poison' in my own handwriting. He signed the register, and took the arsenic away with him, after paying for it." The cross-examination of the two men succeeded in asserting certain technical objections to their evidence.
To explain this, he labeled him a fatalist. The label was only approximate, as most labels are. But Herndon's effort to find one is significant. In these years, Lincoln took the initiative when he took it at all in a way that most people did not recognize. His spirit was ever aloof. It was only the every-day, the external Lincoln that came into practical contact with his fellows.
She kittened and frivoled through the Reign of Terror with an archness that was commendable, though somewhat misplaced, and she let loose a lay figure labeled Marie Antoinette that was designed to frame her own accomplishments. Familiar as we are with the French revolution, used as a stage motive, "The Red Carnation" threw such a new light upon it all, that we were a trifle dumfounded.
Then he spread a large tarpaulin on the floor and lay down on it and had an epileptic fit, the result being a picture which he labeled Revolt, or Collision Between Two Heavenly Bodies, or Premature Explosion of a Custard Pie, or something else equally appropriate.
The organist was the first person she captivated in Welsley, where she was to have so many warm adherents very soon. Father Robertson went back to Canon Wilton's house while Rosamund talked to the organist, with whom she walked as far as a high wooden gate labeled "Mr. Dickinson." "You've got a walled garden too!" she remarked, as her companion took off his hat with an "I live here."
Such a picture in the Orient could only be labeled tragedy; the more quickly it was blotted out from mind and reality the better for all concerned. I spoke positively to my companion. "Look here, Jane Gray, if it wasn't for breaking a commandment I would call you foolish with one syllable. Don't you know that in this country a young man and woman walking and talking together cannot be permitted?
He was remarkably averaged, therefore; and yet, somehow or another, there was that in him which compelled Jack's admiration. I suppose it was that which is conveniently labeled "character." Certainly, nearly everybody who came into contact with him felt the same in some degree.
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