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I'm sure I didn't do anything particularly nervy. There wasn't anything else to do but what I did, if I'd tried." "Most girls would have fainted and screamed, and fainted again when they were rescued," stated the Boy, out of a vast experience. "I never fainted in my life," said Margaret Earle, with disdain. "I don't think I should care to faint out in the vast universe like this.
Browne or Martin said that the Duke would reign yet oh, yes, he said the Powers would see to that!" "Señor, what became of your friend?" inquired Blanco. "Oh!" the boy hesitated for a moment, then broke into a laugh. "I'm afraid that's an anti-climax. They found that he was simply a nervy stowaway. He had not booked his passage and so " "They put him off?" "Yes, at Malta.
"You're rather a Nervy Nat yourself, aren't you?" her droll mother struck in. "As a Christian martyr, you would have had the Colosseum to yourself; every tiger and lion in Rome would have taken to the tall timber when you came on." As he rode ahead, chuckling, to join her daughter, Farrel knew that at all events he had earned the approval of the influential member of the Parker family. Mrs.
He was glad when they reached Aunt Saxon's door and Mark picked him up as he used to do when he was just a little kid, and carried him up to his room. Carried him up and undressed him, while Saxy heard the story from the doctor's lips, and laughed and cried and laughed again. The nervy little kid! He would always be a "little kid" to Saxy, no matter what he did.
"Please, ma'am, that's a question I prefer to ask of you and with a great deal more reason!" returned Ted. "Of all the nervy things I ever saw, it's you prowling around the Danforths' closed bungalow and sneaking out like a thief when you thought no one was around!" Leslie felt herself turn red and uncomfortable at the accusation, but Phyllis seemed in no wise daunted.
"Not too much of it, or the Turk will think we're nervy, and begin to suspect not too little, or he'll wonder if we're moving." In silence the relief of my company was effected. The men of the 13th Division, who were taking over our line, replaced one after another my men on the firing-step, and kept the negligent fire unbroken.
Fluker the suggestion to quit a business so far beneath his powers, sell out, or rent out, or tenant out, or do something else with his farm, march into town, plant himself upon the ruins of Jacob Spouter, and begin his upward soar. Now Mr. Fluker had many and many a time acknowledged that he had ambition; so one night he said to his wife: "You see how it is here, Nervy.
"And he's the only one with nerve enough to ask it," said the secretary. "Yes, he is a bit nervy, John; but it isn't an offensive sort of nerve; and then he's so happy. Why, he really rests me when he comes in. He's smart, too, too smart to be a striker and he may be of some use to us yet." In a little while Patsy went singing himself out just as he had sung himself in.
There was a shout from the squad who had witnessed the duel, and as Frank slid down the tree he was greeted with acclamations. "A nervy thing, Sheldon," commended Wilson. "He almost got me, though," returned Frank. "It was a case of touch and go." "He was a brave man," was the tribute of the corporal, "though that particular kind of work has always seemed to me something like murder.
Sometimes they don't come back at all, of course, and nervy scouts who look up the delinquents in their city offices come back with badly frosted ears and spread the warning. But there are few of these.
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