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He leaned forward and kissed her on the cheek. She followed him outside and picked up Jeremy, holding him, tawny and orange, against her white bathrobe as Joe drove away. He bought a doughnut in Bucksport and took the coastal route for old time's sake. He stopped for breakfast at Moody's, in Waldoboro.
When he had finished he gravely shook his head and nodded toward Bill who was breathing harder now. "He's far gone," Blodgett whispered. "He ain't going to share in no split-up at Manila. He ain't going to put back again to India when we've got rid of the cargo. His time's come."
It may be the reconciliation of kinsfolk who have quarrelled; or the union of lovers long estranged; or husbands and wives who have had hard words and parted; or mothers who had thought their sons dead in California and find themselves agreeably disappointed in their return; or fathers who for old time's sake receive back their erring and conveniently dying daughters.
When I sit by those empty graves back of the pasture lot I seem to know that I must do the work of my boys as well as my own and the time's short! I'm over sixty." "And looking forty, Mrs. McAdam." The manners of her trade clung to Mrs. Terhune. "The shell doesn't count, Mary, if the heart of you is old and worn."
But he would write some kind of a letter it would look queer if he did not, with all the other boys writing. He would write just exactly what he thought, too, for once, and the mere fact that the letter was never to be mailed need make no difference. There is just one chap here doesn't treat me right and his time's coming.
"Heven without a gun, sir," said Henry to Stanhope, and his look was not such as a servant wears to his master, "we could lick a harmy of them chaps." "We could never do it!" cried Mr. Stanhope shrilly. The shouting outside, though still a discreet distance back, grew more articulate. Very fearful were their menaces. "Come out, Stanhope! Your time's come!" "We'll string yer to a tree, yer "
And Bertram's right and Bertram's might Shall meet on Ellangowan height. Hae, there's a letter to him; I was gaun to send it in another way. I canna write mysell; but I hae them that will baith write and read, and ride and rin for me. Tell him the time's coming now, and the weird's dreed, and the wheel's turning. Bid him look at the stars as he has looked at them before. Will ye mind a' this?
"It must be nice to have money, and do all sorts of things like that," sighed Marjorie. "I can't afford to buy books and fruit, for I'm always short on my allowance; and mamma won't let me give up my lessons, even for one day, so I can't do what Miss Lou does." "Poor Marj! It's a hard case; for time's money, and you haven't any of either," remarked Howard.
It was the age in which it was perceived that 'to say ay and no to everything' that a madman says, 'is no good divinity, and that it is 'the time's plague when Madmen lead the Blind; and that, instead of good men sitting still, like 'moral fools, and crying out on wrong and mischief, 'Alack, why does it so? it would be wiser, and more pious, too, to make use of the faculty of learning, with which the Creator has armed Man, 'against diseases of the world, to ascend to the cause, and punish that punish that, 'ere it has done its mischief. It was the age in which it was discovered that 'the sequent effect, with which nature finds itself scourged, is not in the least touched by any kind of reasoning 'thus and thus, except that kind which proceeds first by negatives, that kind which proceeds by a method so severe that it contrives to exclude everything but the 'the cause in nature' from its affirmation, which 'in practical philosophy becomes the rule' that is, the critical method, which is for men, as distinguished from the spontaneous affirmation, which is for gods.
Owen " "We'll all live to see," said the woman; "for the time's comin' quick upon us now. But it's a bad law that kills our ould masther over our heads, an' takes away from us our ould misthress. An' as for him they calls Mr. Owen "
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