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However he saw the beautiful roses lying all over the kitchen floor, and from them came such a delightful scent that the like had never been known. The king made up his mind that if the duck came again he would see it, so he lay in wait for it. He waited a long while, when, at midnight, the little bird, as before, came walking up to the dog which lay on the hearth, and said
It was one of his qualities that when he knew he was about to cry he turned aside to do it and I always respected his privacy and waited for him. Of course being but a little boy he was soon playing again, but his sudden floods of feeling, of which we never spoke, were dear to me in those desolate days.
Seated as he was he could not without turning see the faces of the two at the other table, nor watch the girl when she waited on them. But the suspicion of a smile which hovered on the lips of the young man who sat opposite him whom he could see kept him on his guard. Was a trick in preparation? Were they about to make him pay his footing? No, for they had no notice of his coming.
It won't hurt Jeff if he's been to Harvard, or to Europe, either." "I guess there's a pair of you," said Mrs. Durgin, with superficial contempt. She was silent for a time, and they waited. "Well, there!" she broke out again. "I've got something to chew upon for a spell, I guess. Go along, now, both of you!
Lady Auriol, myself and the car met punctually at the hotel door at ten o'clock. There was also a chasseur with Lady Auriol's dust-coat and binoculars, and a concierge with advice. We waited for Bakkus.
Indeed he waited on me as my servant; and I treated him with all the tenderness which can be used to one in that station. "When I was about to change into the horse-guards the poor fellow began to droop, fearing that he should no longer be in the same corps with me, though certainly that would not have been the case. However, he had never mentioned one word of his dissatisfaction.
The man went out, but Allstone still waited, and at last the man came back with a bundle of sheets and blankets, which he threw upon the bed. "There," said Allstone, "that will do;" and seeing the man out, he darted a surly look at Hilary, and then followed and banged the door. "Thank you," said Hilary, laughing.
With arrows whose point was shaped into the form of a crescent Commodus often intercepted the rapid career and cut asunder the long, bony neck of the ostrich. A panther was let loose, and the archer waited till he had leaped upon a trembling malefactor. In the same instant the shaft flew, the beast dropped dead, and the man remained unhurt.
She waited for us, not herself taking a step, and I was conscious of the rare solemnity with which we presently approached her. She smiled and smiled, and we met; but it was all done in a silence by this time flagrantly ominous. Mrs.
"That isn't fair, is it? If the gods hear, it will be struck off the list at once." "Never mind the gods," said Chris despotically. "I'll get it for you somehow even if they do. Now tell me! Whisper!" She drew down his head and waited expectantly. "What a ghastly predicament!" he said. "Trevor! Don't laugh! I'm not laughing." "I'm sorry," he said.
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