United States or Heard Island and McDonald Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I shouldn't give it you, if I didn't know you were to be trusted." "But but" she hesitated a little "ought I to take it?" He raised his shoulders. "I shall give it to the captain for you, if you don't. But I would rather give it to you direct." In face of this, Cynthia yielded, feeling as if he compelled her. "But mayn't I open it?" "No." West's eyes held hers for a second. "Not till to-morrow.
"You've done nothing wrong," she went on, "and I can't help being pleased by the flowers and knowing that you think I am all sorts of things that I'm not. If you really like me a good deal, don't go away looking as if the world had come to an end. I think you are a fine person, and I shall always be glad to be your friend." There was agony in West's eyes.
But a smooth Magdalen of Carlo Dolci with a tear on each cheek, or a Guercino Christ or St. John, or a Scripture illustration of West's, or a black cloud with a flash of lightning in it of Martin's, rarely rails of being verily, often deeply, felt for the time.
While busy with her ablutions the two new nurses arrived, seated on a battery limber; and, hastily drying her hands, she went to them and welcomed them, gave them tea and breakfast in Dr. West's office, and left them there while she went away to awake Celia and Letty, pack her valise for the voyage before her, and write to Berkley.
Then I guess I'll go down, Joel. I wouldn't pound any more for a while, if I was you. 'Twon't do any good." The sound of voices greeted her, as she descended the stairs, Mrs. West's asthmatic tones blending with the flutey treble of a young girl. "It's Diantha," thought Persis, her lips tightening.
He had not yet been into the house; his bedroom now being the room you have heard of, the scene of Dr. West's lost prescription. The doctor had gone by the six o'clock train, after a cordial farewell to Jan; he had gone as it was soon to turn out without having previously informed his daughters. But of this Jan knew nothing.
I was quite wholly of a mind to go down and rout out Captain West to tell him my decision, when another presented itself: Then are you, the thinker and philosopher, the world-sick one, afraid to go down, to cease in the darkness? Bah! My own pride in my life-pridelessness saved Captain West's sleep from interruption.
The colony abandoned the pleasant Non-such and returned to the open air at West's Fort. On his way down, Smith met with the accident that suddenly terminated his career in Virginia. While he was sleeping in his boat his powder-bag was accidentally fired; the explosion tore the flesh from his body and thighs, nine or ten inches square, in the most frightful manner.
"And if you find as you probably soon will that I make but a poor sort of host," he said, "just remember, will you, that I like my guests to please themselves, and secure your own comfort?" For a second, West's grim mouth seemed to hesitate on the edge of a smile a smile that never developed. "I wonder how soon you will tell me to go to the devil?" he said cynically.
There is, however, a more decided difference between West's system and those previously in use, for it is marked by the fact that the slabs composing the shell of the whole structure in many cases may be built up before the filling-in is deposited between the slabs, and in none of the other cases can this be done.
Word Of The Day