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"I received that very important news five minutes ago. I'm responsible for the order and condition of the tent for this week, so you fellows will have to step around to keep the tent in style to suit me." "Oh, if you're tent orderly," laughed Anstey, "then we don't have to take the word from you." "You don't?" demanded Prescott. "No, indeed. If you're the orderly, then you're merely a striker."
Pocketing the bottle and flourishing the teapot, Tims mounted again to Milly's room. Her patient, who had spent the time wandering about the room and examining everything in it, as well as she could in the fast-falling twilight, resumed her position in the chair as soon as she heard a step in the passage, and greeted her returning keeper with an attractive smile.
I assure you he is very charming." His soul was full; and the fluctuations of her color, with the embarrassment of her step, more than affected him. "Then you do not leave town for some time, Miss Beaufort?" inquired he; "I may yet anticipate the honor of seeing " he hesitated a moment, then added in a depressed tone "your aunt, when I next wait on the Misses Dundas."
It is the first step on the way to that millennial era of universal peace toward which a perfected Christian civilization must eventually lead us, and it remained for an autocratic Tsar of Russia to sound the call and to be the leader in this movement.
He knew that it was real, that it was the life he had always lived, and yet he couldn't get rid of the feeling that Corinna and the two old men and the charming surroundings were all part of a play, and that in a little while he should go out of the theatre and step back among the sordid actualities.
And then a young lad, with the pipes proudly perched on his shoulder, marched in with a stately step, and joyous and shrill arose the Salute. Three times he marched round the long and narrow hall, finishing behind Keith Macleod's chair. The young man turned to him.
After three days, I shall come and fetch it away; by which time, I'm sure, it will have made him all right." These words finished, he walked away with leisurely step, and though all tried to detain him, they could not succeed. Chia Jui received the mirror. "This Taoist," he thought, "would seem to speak sensibly, and why should I not look at it and try its effect?"
Encouraged by this thought, and more than ever transported by her love since he had expressed a congenial sentiment: excited into emulation by the generous tone of his letter, and softened into yet deeper weakness by its tenderness; she had resolved upon the bold step she adopted. A vetturino lived near the gate of St.
Deborah came up presently to lay the little tea-table, and then Carrie woke up, and I waited on her as usual, and tried to coax her failing appetite; and by-and-by came the expected tap at the door. Of course it was Allan; no one but himself would come in with that alert step and cheerful voice.
I don't care what you call it; it has made you come back to me. You tried hard to stay away. How you fought, Alice! but you had to come. I knew you would come. All this time you have been longing for me to go to you. You have stamped your pretty feet because I did not go. You have cried, 'He shall come! You have vowed you would not go one step of the way to meet me.