Garuda Gems

Garuda Gems —_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_. “If you want to play ball with us in the afternoons, you may,” said Otto.,"Who lost it there?" asked Sarby, abruptly.,“Salute your partner, swing—your partner.” Mrs. Wopp who had expected “Swing on the corner,” had seized the unfortunate Mr. Wopp and in spite of his struggles was spinning him violently around, while their respective partners stood and looked helplessly on.,Patricia, protesting, dragged herself from the restful nest, but by the time they had begun to arrange the gay little bags of candy in the big red Japanese lantern, she was as enthusiastic as Elinor could wish.,"Well, what is it, then? Who sent you? Come now, out with it quick, or I'll take a tarred rope-end to you."，"What have I said?" she asks, half plaintively. "You laugh, yet I did not mean to be funny. Tell me what I said."，"Your advice is excellent," says he, sneeringly. Then suddenly he stops short before her, and breaks out vehemently,——，"Lilias must have been quite a child then," says Lady Rodney.Patricia's heart sank, but she concealed her feelings sufficiently to reassure Miss Jinny, who went on briskly:

"I hope we shall be; I am sure we shall," returns Mona, quickly. It is sweet to her to find a possible friend in this alien land.,"She returned through your grounds, but where she went Battersea does not know.",Night it is that makes us strong.",But Judith was not attending. Her eyes were fixed on the far side of the great station.,“Cut it out, kid,” said Jerry. Evidently Bob’s tone of determination had impressed him. Also the taunt about cold feet stung him. “I just wanted to make sure you wanted to go, that’s all. You’re taking a chance of never going back East again.”,"Could you not imagine you had one?" she says, presently as a last resource.,Later on, when they open the paper that had been given by the dead man into the keeping of Dr. Bland, and which proves to be his will, duly signed and witnessed by the gamekeeper and his son, they find he has left to Mona all of which he died possessed. It amounts to about two thousand a year; of which one thousand is to come to her at once, the other on the death of his mother.,Frank Stanhope turned slowly and held out his hands.,"Dug it up to fool Fatty Watland with. Was goin' to tell him it was a ground-nut. I've had it in fer him ever since he shoved me off the bridge into the creek.","All you know!" repeated Jen, in a startled tone. "About this crime?",“Yer a limb o’ Satan orl right. The shawl was needin’ dyein’ anyway. I’ll jist make it green. Yer Par used to say I looked right harnsome in green, so I’ll s’prise him with a new shawl over my shoulders.” She turned to the dog. The strenuous exertions of the afternoon had noticeably reduced his girth.,"Certainly I shall not. It would be very mean, and I wonder at you to ask the question," says Mona, with a great show of virtuous indignation. "Besides," mischievously, "if you know, there is no necessity to tell you anything.".