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When Polly was left to herself I could see she was thinking very hard. The rocking-chair kept moving faster, and her forehead was drawn into a little pucker between her eyes. She sighed too, occasionally, as if she were sad.
As he watched Madge he could not help thinking how pretty she looked, with her hands moving deftly among the cups and saucers, so bizarre-looking with their sprawling dragons of yellow and green. He half smiled to himself as he thought, "If they knew all, I wonder if they would sit with me so unconcernedly." Mr. Frettlby, too, as he looked at his daughter, thought of his dead wife and sighed.
The stranger laughed also. "Lose it! You have no idea how honest people are. I hadn't myself. The whole world has gone up in my estimation within the last few weeks. People run after me for quite long distances and force it into my hand people on rainy days who haven't got umbrellas of their own. It is the same with this hat." The stranger sighed as he took it up.
The old man merely nodded, as he cautiously stripped the bees from his hands, and Billy sat down, stretched out her feet, let her arms hang heavily, and sighed deeply: this was all she needed. Oh, it wasn't so hard to live, after all. "You're the young lady at Kadullen?" the old man finally said again, "I often go there with honey. S'pose you're wet, hey?" "Yes."
Pray do not feel the least anxiety on that score." "Where is Clarence?" "At North End, sir. Of course, he would not think of leaving the works while both you and myself are absent." "I don't know," sighed the weary invalid, for the third time. "But you had better not, either of you, attempt to deceive me while I am lying here on my back." "Not for the world, my dear father!
"Everybody has been so good and kind, Marilla," sighed Anne happily, on the day when she could first limp across the floor. "It isn't very pleasant to be laid up; but there is a bright side to it, Marilla. You find out how many friends you have. Why, even Superintendent Bell came to see me, and he's really a very fine man.
In many walks and talks she told me of life in a men's college under the patronage of the Maharajah of a native state. Loyal to her college, and proud of the treasures of opportunity it had opened to her, she yet sighed for what she had missed. "When I see the life of the girls in the Women's Christian College at Madras," she said, "I feel that I have never been to college."
Why does he take chances, then, on losing his stock, and maybe some of his herders by butting in here?" "That's what I want to know," Santry immediately agreed, as though the thought were his own. "Answer me that! By the great horned toad! If I had my way...." "This country isn't what it was ten years ago, Bill. We're supposed to have courts here now, you know." Santry sighed heavily.
I know my father works as hard as anybody, and he is not rich; and I know the same of several of his friends. So it is hardly likely that such a lazy dunce as Lamb should be rich, unless he has a fortune here at home; and if he had that, I do not believe he would take the trouble of going so far, to suffer by the heat." "I should not mind the heat," sighed Hugh, "if I could go.
I am at the head of twenty-nine societies, and if my health lasts, you will see what I will accomplish now that I have your assistance, Jack;" and Mr Easy's eyes sparkled and flashed in all the brilliancy of incipient insanity. Jack sighed, and to turn the conversation he observed, "You have made a great change in this room, sir. What may all this be for?
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