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I have had my nose at the grindstone of business for so many years that I feared it had grown out of my power to make new friends; but I begin to see that I have not lost the knack. Perhaps my somber presence is tolerated because of my gay, jolly boy," and Mr. Kinsella gazed rather wistfully after Pierce, who had crossed the deck to meet Elise O'Brien, just emerging from the cabin. "Oh, Mr.
With this peroration Mr. Jubber took his pupil out of the ring, amid the most vehement cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. He was too much excited by his triumph to notice that the child, as she walked after him, looked wistfully to the last in the direction by which Valentine had gone out. "The public like excitement," soliloquized Mr. Jubber, as he disappeared behind the red curtain.
Let's go and look over the catalogue, and try to decide just what we want to buy for our camp when Dick gets the money for the canoe." "That would be bully fun, if we really knew that Dick had sold the canoe," smiled young Holmes wistfully. "However, until we do know, I suggest that we avoid all false hopes and keep away from all catalogues." At this instant Tom nudged Dave.
She could only hope wistfully that for a little Wayne would come to the house seldom, that Martin would grow used to having him in the neighbourhood, and that in the end he would content himself with ignoring the man whom she knew he disliked, distrusted and suspected. She thought that she understood fully what she grasped only in part.
'Yes she said, thrilled at the thought of travel. But to her it was only travel. 'To be free, he said. 'To be free, in a free place, with a few other people! 'Yes, she said wistfully. Those 'few other people' depressed her. 'It isn't really a locality, though, he said. 'It's a perfected relation between you and me, and others the perfect relation so that we are free together.
"There's another sort of flowers that the Lord likes," said the woman looking at her; "they be His little children." Daisy's heart was tender, and there was something in Juanita's face that won her confidence. Instead of turning away, she folded her hands unconsciously, and said, more wistfully than she knew, "I want to be one!"
Cousin Irene has been very conscientious in trying to make a lady of me, but that was a part of her bargain, wasn't it?" Mrs. Halstead glared, but made no comment, and after a moment the girl went on wistfully: "Of course, if we could have grown fond of each other it would have made things easier, but I'm so different from you-all that I guess you couldn't really like me.
I was as fat!" "We'll have some photographs of you." "Oh," Jewel spoke wistfully, "I wish I was pretty." "Then you wouldn't be an Evringham." "Why not? You are," returned the child, so spontaneously that slow color mounted to the broker's face, and he smiled. "I look like my mother's family, they say.
The Family jaws were set. They were going. The entire outfit lowered the wagon by roping it down. There was one delicious moment when I thought boats and all were going over the edge. But the ropes held. Nothing happened. They put the boats in the water. I had one last rather pitiful thought as I took my seat in the stern of one of them. "This is my birthday," I said wistfully.
"Poor Wolf," he would say, "thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
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