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And certain of his muscles are not developed. I've been correcting that undevelopment by giving him the regular setting-up that we give all boy scouts." "Shucks, your boy scouts!" sneered Big Tom. "We got no time for 'em. We're poor, and we're busy, and we got a' old, sick man on our hands. That's scoutin' enough!" "Many men who have boys think as you do," acknowledged Mr. Perkins, serenely.
They scrutinized each other, gravely, serenely, intently, until a thunder of applause, like a tidal wave surging over the hall, seemed to engulf their gaze. Madame Okraska was once more emerging. Miss Scrotton, catching up her boa, her programme and her fan, scuttled back to her seat with an air of desperate gravity; Sir Alliston returned to his; Mrs.
Count Roumovski asked serenely, and then smiled to himself as he noticed his companion's apprehensive glance in the direction where, far away, Martha dozed in peace. "It would be nice out of doors but " and Stella faltered. "Do not let us be deprived of pleasure by any buts there is one out there who will warn us when your maid wakes.
At last she said with a bitter smile, "He has broken the last shred that bound me." But as the hours passed in tumultuous thoughts, her heart told her how vain were such words. Captain Bodine was halting serenely down into that new vista in his life of which we have already spoken. Every day both promise and fulfilment seemed richer than he had ever imagined any future experience could be.
He could think of only one thing that would ever heal the wound. Perhaps the chance for it would come some day. "Yes," she went on, "sitting there so comfortably and serenely and deciding that a man who was ready to die for his convictions must be shot for cowardice! My views are like Hugo Mallin's and my back is against the wall. But to the work, Lanny!
"I deny both allegations," replied the Colonel serenely. "I maintain that a single man whips all connubial creation when it comes to gallantising a single young woman; and that no young lady would be justified in resenting as impertinence my friendly suggestion to the single man so deserving of her consideration as I estimate you to be, to solicit the right to advise her for life.
Human nature being what it is, having a silly side to it as well as a mean side, there were not a few who pretended to be indignant on no better authority than a general propensity to believe every evil report; and a good many others who found it simply funny to call Heyst the Spider behind his back, of course. He was as serenely unconscious of this as of his several other nicknames.
The floors of the halls are almost invariably pavements of stone, sometimes in colored mosaic. . . . By and by came Mr. Rathbone, a very animated, upright, facetious old gentleman, who seems to enjoy life and his millions quite serenely. He is a person of great energy, and full of benevolence, and the fountain of many of the great charities of Liverpool.
"Ah, you just got in, doctor?" said gentle Mrs. Bevis, with a glance at the suit-cases. Sally flushed, but the doctor serenely let the misunderstanding go. There was no good reason to give for the presence of two cases in the car. "Put one of the cases in front, Bates, and rest your feet on it," suggested the older boy, Kenneth.
Opdyke," she enlightened him. Reed smiled grimly. "I'm very heavy; it would take too large a derrick," he replied. "How is Brenton, to-day?" "Quite as usual, thank you. Of course, we both are so busy that I see comparatively little of him," Katharine said serenely. Reed caught at the digression. "Of course. I suppose the youngster keeps you very busy, Mrs. Brenton." "Oh, it isn't the baby.
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