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She looked at each one, and counted them wistfully. 'Seventeen! she said; and how beautiful! I never saw them so near before. They are so becoming to that fair cheek that I suppose no offer from my my uncle, on our behalf, would induce you to part with them?

"You are a ridiculous Jerry," Marjorie laughed through her tears. "There, I feel better now. I'm not going to cry another tear. Are my eyes very red? I don't care to have the public gape at my grief. Come on, children. It must be long after twelve. I suppose Mary is home by this time. Naturally she wouldn't wait for me," she added wistfully. As a matter of fact, Mary had waited.

Men are wistfully trying to peer through the portals of the year nineteen hundred marveling, as the effects and forces of applied science is unfolded to our comprehension, and discovery moves on, each invention leading in another, in stately procession; we, all the while rapt in wonder, are straining in hope and fear to catch the coming word, and to comprehend its import.

I'd love to know your father from all you tell me, but I never would stay in that house," declared Polly, quickly. "We have several weeks to discuss a school for Polly," remarked Mrs. Brewster, rising to go out and seek her husband. "I'd love to be with Anne," ventured Polly, wistfully. "Maybe you will, dear. Don't say any more about it, now, but trust to your dear mother's wisdom and ways.

Lord Castlewood had too deep a sense of the will of God to know what it is; and he looked at me wistfully as at one who might have worse experience of it.

"I learnt shorthand, you know, years ago, and I bought a typewriter last week. I thought if nothing else turned up, I might earn a little that way." "You are certainly not one of the helpless sort of young women," he said. "Will you let me have the stories for a few days?" "Will it bother you?" she asked wistfully. "Well, I don't think so," he assured her. "I won't let it."

She had said that defeat at thirty should be an incentive only after fifty could it be counted a definite disaster. "You don't know how I've missed you," Steve told Mary upon her return. "Don't I look it?" he added, wistfully. Mary had appeared at the office late one September afternoon rather than appear the following morning as a model of exact punctuality.

But she only shook her head wearily, withdrawing her hands from his, and for a time they sat silent, eyes apart. Then "There is another reason," she said wistfully. He looked up at her, hesitated, and "My habits?" he asked simply. "Yes." "I have them in check." "Are you certain?" "I think I may be now." "Yet," she said timidly, "you lost one fight since you knew me."

But each time that they proposed he should be carried there from his rough bed among the heather, Geordie pled rather wistfully, "Just wait a wee while. I'm right comfortable here among the heather," and once he added with a sad smile as he glanced at the farmer's wife, "But I'll no be able to supper the beasts the night, Mistress Gowrie. Maybe Sandy will look to them.

Outside they could hear Blowitz pacing up and down on the rocky shore. "Well, what do you fellows say?" he asked. "I'd like the trip," said Ned, wistfully. "The money is a large sum," added Bob. "Then you want to go?" asked Jerry. "I'll do just what ever you do. I'll tell him we'll go." "No! Don't!" cried Nellie in a tense whisper. "Jerry boys don't have anything to do with this man.