United States or Belarus ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As she took up the broom to finish her sweeping, she heard a great commotion overhead, steps running about, voices exclaiming; but her mind was full of the milkman, and she paid no attention, till Louisa came flying downstairs, half-dressed, and crying, "Sake's alive, Marianne, where's Master Archie?" "How should I know? Not down here, anyway," was Marianne's reply.
"Yet," she went on, "you really ought to remember that door, Major Vigoureux, if only for old sake's sake; for it was, I believe, the first you entered when you came to the Islands. That was in the year " "Never mind the year," interrupted the Commandant, hastily. "I remember it well. I almost never pass the door without remembering it."
There were places he took me to you wouldn't believe! for often he could only have left me with servants. If he should carry me off with him to-night, for old sake's sake, to the Earl's Court Exhibition, it will be a little just a very, very little like our young adventures."
'For old sake's sake, he murmured. Julian nibbled away rather delicately. 'It's not so awful, he said. He was riding into Rosebery that afternoon when the incident recurred to him. He had a great grip of his subjects whatever they were so long as they were payable propositions, to use his own phrase. The textual study of the Bible had been accounted such a proposition until recently.
Then she flung back her hood with a sweep of her hand and met his gaze steadily. "You know I did n't come to see you, don't you?" she demanded with quiet defiance. "Far be it from me," he temporised, "to assume accurate knowledge of anything as doubtful as the direction a charming young woman's favour may take; but I thought it possible I thought it possible for old sake's sake."
Mulvaney knew a contractor on one of the new Central India lines, and wrote to him for some sort of work. The contractor said that if Mulvaney could pay the passage he would give him command of a gang of coolies for old sake's sake. The pay was eighty-five rupees a month, and Dinah Shadd said that if Terence did not accept she would make his life a "basted purgathory."
You will excuse me at such a time: but it may be years before I am spared to return home, and if I can do anything in the way of looking after the grave, I shall be proud. Oh no " he went on hurriedly with a flushed face: "for love, sir; for love, of course: or, as I should rather say, for old sake's sake, if that's not too bold. It would be a privilege, Mr. Annesley."
News travels fast and penetrates everywhere in that lost corner of garrulous Gascony. The news that Paul had taken up his residence at Saint-Graal could scarcely fail to reach the Queen. Would she remember their childish intimacy? Would she make him a sign? Would she let him see her, for old sake's sake? Oh, in all probability, no. Most certainly, no.
When he was dying, he was uneasy in his mind about her, as she was not left well off, and I promised to do what I could for her one does not lightly break such a promise, does one? I was fond of her I would do her any good turn I could, for old sake's sake, but marry her be engaged to her! He pauses expressively.
"What in the world have you been doing with your face?" demanded Diane. As an afterthought she added: "Mr. Macdonald is all cut up too." "We've been taking massage treatment." Gordon passed to a subject of more immediate interest. "Do I get my congratulations, Di?" She kissed him, too, for old sake's sake. "I do believe you'll suit Sheba better than Colby Macdonald would.
Word Of The Day