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The boys followed him a moment later and went across the street to view the scene of the wreck. The fire had been put out, and the local fire company, which had been summoned to the scene, was rolling up the hose and getting ready to depart.
I will only keep this one rose. Here, Leonard, darling!" She gave the rest to him. It was her farewell; for having now no veil to hide her emotion, she summoned all her bravery for one parting smile, and, smiling, turned away.
Marie soothed her, and hoped that Jean's compassion might be as strong as her own. Had she not been taken up with Périne, she would have more quickly caught the impatient scratching like a mouse in the wainscot, with which he summoned her.
His abilities were marked, and he possessed in an unusual degree the soldierly quality of inspiring enthusiasm. If he could turn all his powers into the channel of military efficiency, he would be the man of the age. He had the public confidence, and he had such an opportunity as comes to few men. At the opening of the war he was in Paris and was at once summoned home.
He summoned up what little courage he could, therefore, and came slowly down a ladder that he had reared against the side of the barn furthest from the house. Bob waited until Looker was fairly on the ground before making a move.
But never fear, Miss Ellen, I ain't a going to ask you that again." He shook the little hand; and from that time Ellen and her rough charioteer were firm friends. Mrs. Van Brunt now summoned them to table; and Ellen was well feasted with the splitters, which were a kind of rich short- cake, baked in irons, very thin and crisp, and then split in two and buttered whence their name.
"You have not heard him talk, have you?" "No, I'll grant that," Gustav acknowledged. "Have him brought in and let me hear him." "Very well," said Otto, "but speak English to him. His German is so bad that he ought to he shot for that if for nothing else." He turned and summoned an orderly. The two men sat in silence. At a nearby table two lieutenants were busy writing.
Made aware that he could not trust to the spirit of an assembly, William now artfully summoned merchant, and knight, and baron, one by one.
In 1841 the Fine Arts Committee appointed to consider the question of the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament, sat to examine witnesses, but Haydon was not summoned before them, a slight which he deeply felt. With an anxious heart he set about making experiments in fresco, and was astonished at what he regarded as his success in this new line of endeavour.
Standing by the hearth, waiting for his wife, the Squire displayed to greater advantage than ever the shape of his long and narrow head; his neck had grown conspicuously redder; his eyes, like those of an offended swan, stabbed, as it were, at everything they saw. It was not seldom that Mrs. Pendyce was summoned to the study to hear him say: "I want to ask your advice.
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