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They are not far away. We are always ready to hold service for such as may wish to attend." He disappeared through the door of the choir loft and returned shortly, followed by two tall Mexican half-breeds, clad in priceless surplices that had been wrought in Spain two centuries before. They lighted some meager candles before the altar and began their chant in soft, well-trained voices.
"The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed. "The new policy has swept every restriction aside.
It took him but a minute or two to cut away a section of this protecting pipe. In doing so, he exposed to view the many wires making up an astonishingly substantial cable, for so meager an office building.
The proceeds of his office were doubtless very meager, but in that day, when the rate of postage on letters was still twenty-five cents, a little change now and then came into his hands, which, in the scarcity of money prevailing on the frontier, had an importance difficult for us to appreciate.
He was profoundly touched, by her giving so much grave thought to it, at least. "But, dearest child," he said, "what does it matter now? I'm rather a meager person. You couldn't dress me up with attributes, out of your dear mind. I shouldn't know how to wear 'em. I'm no end grateful to you for wanting to. But if you gave me the earth for a football now I'm too stiff to kick it.
Captain Wegg would not permit him to go to school, but himself attended to such instructions as Joe could acquire at home, and this was so meager and the boy so ambitious that I think it was one cause of his discontent. I remember, when I was sent to school at Troy, that Joe sobbed for days because he could not have the same advantages.
"Well, I can't think of anything more now," threads its way through a meager page of commonplaces about the weather, his food, and his personal health. A frugal line of cross-marks for kisses, at the bottom of the page, is his only concession to sentiment.
The real reply came in the hard little laugh with which Annie Squires drew from the pocket of her coat in which she also was muffled at the breakfast table a meager little newspaper, close-folded. She spread it out before she passed it to her companion. "Hearts Aflame!" said she. "While you have to dry your own socks, while you break the ice in your coffee! Can't you feel your heart flame?
McBride's big iron safe, and here was the high desk, his heavy ledgers row after row of them; these histories of commerce covered almost the entire period during which men had bought and sold in Mount Hope. A faint light burned beyond the dirty glass partition, but the tall meager form of the old merchant was nowhere visible. Mr.
"After all," returned Arthur, "this experience won't hurt him. He will still have his island to return to." They smoked for a time in silence. "Has it ever occurred to you, sir," said Arthur, "that the story Jones has related to us, meager though it is, bears somewhat the stamp of a fairy tale?" Uncle John removed his cigar and looked reflectively at the ash.
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