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"Is all prepared, Mopo?" "All is prepared, Black One," I answered. "The regiment of the Slayers will be here by noon." "Where are the princes, Mopo?" asked the king again. "The princes sit with their wives in the houses of their women, O King," I answered; "they drink beer and sleep in the laps of their wives." Chaka smiled grimly, "For the last time, Mopo!" "For the last time, O King."
The seven warmed their food over the fire and then sat around it in a close and silent circle, with their blankets drawn over their bodies, and their rifles covered up in their laps. Sitting thus, Blackstaffe looked like the others and no one would have known him from an Indian.
"He is not a pug!" said Fleda, in whose arms King was lying luxuriously, "and he never gets into my lap besides." "Don't he! Why not?" "Because I don't like it, sir. I don't like to see dogs in laps." "But all the ladies in the land do it, you little Saxon! it is universally considered a mark of distinction." "I can't help what all the ladies in the land do," said Fleda.
She seemed to be measuring one's incompetence as a mouse-catcher in these moments, or to be saying to herself, 'What a clumsy, stupid person; how little she knows, and how I should like to scratch her and hear her squeak. I sometimes felt as if I were a larger sort of helpless mouse in these moments, but sometimes Polly would be more friendly, and even jump into our laps, when it was a pleasure to pat her hard little head with its exquisitely soft, dark tortoise-shell fur.
And Charlie Sands was trying to prevent Jasper from getting back into his car, while Jasper was protesting that he could win in two or more laps and that he could drive with one hand he'd only broken his arm. The crowd had gathered round us, thick.
They had sung it through several times, and the puppies, finding themselves so outdone in the matter of noise, had curled up in the children's laps and were fast asleep, when Diddie interrupted the chorus to ask: "Dumps, what are you goin' ter name your doggie?" "I b'lieve I'll name 'im 'Papa," replied Dumps, "because he give 'im ter me."
It had never occurred to me, any more than it does to the average Canadian boy, to be thankful for his heritage of liberty, of free speech, of decency. It has all come easy to us, and we have taken all the apples which Fortune has thrown into our laps, without thinking.
Before the "Majestic" left the Mersey, that his mind might be alert on arrival at New York, he had measured with tape line the promenade deck of the steamer, and resolved to make enough laps for a mile, both before and after each meal, a walk of six miles per day, or a total of forty-eight miles for the voyage.
Until he was ten years old his days were passed on the laps of women; and he has never once suffered to stand on his ricketty legs.
It clogged the wheels and loaded the break-blocks; and the near side horse had a nasty way of throwing his front feet, so that he deposited soft red lumps of mud in our laps at every step. But, despite these trifling drawbacks, it was delightful to be drawn without effort by a pair of fat horses in splendid harness.
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