Unmarked6698
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
“You can search me.” Billy was about to remark further, when a commotion arose among the school children just passing on their way home. “I knew it!” Billy panted feverishly. “The Ha’nt!” Heedless of the dog running with his nose close to the ground, Billy rushed on. His shirt was torn, his trousers hanging by one suspender, his shoes cut and one tap turned back. Ashes whitened his hair; though at the back a dark mat was still damp from oozing blood,—the handkerchief that had bound it had been torn off by a twitching twig. His smarting eyes watered so that he could hardly see his way. Yet of all this he was unconscious. Weariness, pain, his cracked and bleeding lips,—he knew nothing of them, felt nothing. She emerged from the house her hair coiled on the top of her head and decorated with a strip of shining silver from an empty biscuit tin. Thus had she seen a circus lady dressed on one never-to-be-forgotten day. Around her small body was draped a yellow silk shawl of Mrs. Wopps. Her feet were encased in a pair of Ebenezer Wopp’s reddest socks, bound on by bright green ribbon ripped from her winter hat. From her fair hair floated a white aigret made of chicken feathers hastily wired together. Moses needed no aigret as a strand of red hair stood upright from the crown of his head..
453 people found this
review helpful
kez_ h (Kez_h)
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
"Why, Spice, of course," opening her eyes. "Didn't you know. Why, what else could I mean?"I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
"But perhaps she will refuse you," says Mona, demurely.
658 people found this
review helpful
Conrad
They looked at her a minute, dropped reluctantly to the floor, and retired. “Billy,” she called. “O mother, how can there be joy if life is all work and never any fun?” He took her hand and pressed it against his cheek. St. Elmo cast about in his mind for some plausible explanation of his recent panic. It would never do to inform the world that he had been afraid of a mere turkey..
298 people found this
review helpful