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She had lost her air of being afraid I might patronize her, and explained pantingly that she had come on an errand, not to call. "I'm at my Christmas presents now," she said, "and I've fixed on a bedroom set for Miss Emily. I suppose you won't care if I go right up and measure the dresser-top, will you?" I took her up, and her sharp eyes roved over the stairs and the upper hall.
I therefore intend to try and convince you as speedily as may be." "Egad!" exclaimed the Viscount, his blue eyes a-dance, "this is positively more than I had ventured to hope, my dear fell Ah! Mr. Beverley, at your service, sir?" And, after a season, Barnabas spoke, albeit pantingly, and dabbing at his bloody mouth the while.
This was Toto, and the rush of events had completely bewildered him. The dog was accustomed to being held on its mistress' lap or carried about in a covered basket, but she had decided that a short walk would give the little beast needed exercise, and it had pantingly tagged along after her, obedient, as usual, to her whims. Now she had suddenly disappeared.
The train-robbery film was well, he kept repeating "Gee!" to himself pantingly. How the masked men did sneak, simply sneak and sneak, behind the bushes! Mr. Wrenn shrank as one of them leered out of the picture at him. How gallantly the train dashed toward the robbers, to the spirit-stirring roll of the snare-drum.
She threw her legs about in confusion and met every thrust more than halfway. She wiggled herself from side to side on my staff. The finale came. "'Herbert, I am coming O God! what pleasure! Dear Herbert closer clo ser clo she pantingly exclaimed, and a profuse discharge from the innermost recesses of her body met my own.
He come at me with a knife, and he'd uh killed me if I'd stayed!" Happy Jack pantingly recovered himself. "I didn't have no time ta git my gun," he added in a more natural tone, "or I'd uh settled him pretty blame quick. So I come out to borrow yourn. I betche I'll have the next move." The horse-wrangler grinned heartlessly.
"It is quite flat at the top," he said, "and there is a tower at the very edge, and a perfect place for a picnic." Here we will leave them, climbing pantingly up, and follow the Slowcoach, as Moses drew it steadily along the lanes at the base of the hill, between the high hedges. "It's not true, is it, that when all the cows in a field stand up it's going to rain?"
"What time did you start?" said she presently, in a harsh voice, which seemed to rudely shock the stillness. She did not turn her eyes. "I came on the first train," answered Lois, pantingly. Once in a while she stole furtive, wildly questioning glances at her mother, but her mother never met them. She continued to look at the talking men on the sidewalk.
"We have the right to happiness," he had said, and she had looked into his eyes and believed him. What was this strange, elusive happiness, that she had so pantingly pursued and never overtaken? that essence pure and unalloyed with baser things? Ecstasy, perhaps, she had found for was it delirium?
I couldn't speak, from dead cold fear, now that I had saved her, of what it would have been if I had not. For two gasping minutes we just lay there. Then Paulette said pantingly, "I'm so dreadfully sorry I've been such a trouble! But I couldn't do anything but come, and I forgot you couldn't want me!"
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