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The present members could not help thinking of them. "Too bad we can't stay at Miss Allen's forever," remarked Marjorie; "it seems awful to think we had to lose two Scouts." "But we'll get more," observed Ruth, optimistically, who had never been a girl of deep friendships. "And next year Edith and Helen will be gone," continued Marjorie "and the others."
Even on a Sunday afternoon, and certainly at all hours of a week-day, one could look from windows at good racing, generally done by folk impeded by hand luggage who, as they ran, glanced suspiciously at every clock, and gasped, in a despairing way, "We shall never do it!" or, optimistically, "We shall only just do it!" or, with resignation, "Well, if we lose this one we shall have to wait for the next."
Then Hawkins' professional curiosity got the better of him. "What's the big idea?" he asked. Gregory explained, concluding optimistically: "I'm not worrying much. Farnsworth can fix things up all right. Then we'll go back to Cavalan." "If he doesn't you can put up a bond for double the amount of the claim," Hawkins advised. "That will stay the attachment until you can raise the cash.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Rae turned over the Company roll. "There is no no no man of that profession here, sirr," he reported, after scanning the document. "But," he added optimistically, "there is a machine-fitter and a glass-blower. Will I warn one of them?" "I think we had better call for a volunteer first," said Major Kemp tactfully.
'Tis the Irish that never backs up from a rough trail or a fight." He poured a fourth cup of coffee into a chipped enamel cup and took his courage in his two hands. Mack Nolan, he assured himself optimistically, couldn't possibly know what lay hidden under the camp outfit in the Ford. Until he did know, he was harmless as anybody, so long as Casey kept an eye on him.
I have had dealings with many that I've never seen again, and with some that have been careful not to know me if they did see me." "We can never tell," said Martin, optimistically. "Of course," the captain went on, "I can hold me tongue. That's agreed we all hold our tongues, whatever the newspapers may be likely to pay for a word or two.
"You'll win out yet, my boy Ted Mix to the contrary notwithstanding." "Oh, sure!" said Henry, optimistically. "I don't gloom much only fifteen minutes a day in my own room. I got the habit when I was taking my correspondence course on efficiency." Mix, he never felt as though he were in competition with them.
"But what about that rich brown gravy?" queried the carpenter. "Smoky White can dish up the slickest dough-nuts you ever slapped your lip onto," informed the modest individual who stroked his chin. "We can have pertatoes and beans and slapjacks on the side," a hopeful miner reminded the company. "You bet. Don't you worry; we can trot out a regular banquet," Field assured them, optimistically.
Then he handed over his own bunk to the wounded man, declaring optimistically that McWha would come round all right, his breed being hard to kill. It was hours later when McWha began to recover consciousness, and just then, as it happened, there was no one near him but Rosy-Lilly. Smitten with pity, the child was standing beside the bunk, murmuring: "Poor! poor!
These quotations show that the great Exhibition was at the time optimistically regarded, not merely as a record of material achievements, but as a demonstration that humanity was at last well on its way to a better and happier state, through the falling of barriers and the resulting insight that the interests of all are closely interlocked.
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