Parimatch

Parimatch CHAPTER VI. A BAD BLUNDER. "It's awful," said Billy in awed tones. "I got as far as the first pond. It was far enough for me.","Nevertheless, let me hear it," says the duchess. "I cannot forget that your face is musical.","Why, yes, now that you remind me, I recollect.",Mr Eagle, whose views were undoubtedly in accord with Mr Pledge's, viewed his companion in acid silence.,They were fully a mile away from the place of terror before sheer exhaustion forced them to abate their wild speed and tumble in a heap beneath a big elm tree, along the trail of the forest.，"Good-bye, Sir William," said Lucy, and in silence the two gentlemen watched her walk to the gate and pass out.，"She is something more than that in Barbadoes."，In his distress his wandering eye discovered a bunch of vine ties, short pieces of soft hemp rope for fastening vines to their supporting stakes. They were hanging against the rear of the coop, and a gust of wind had blown them into view. Like a flash he sprang and caught them; tied several together in quick, strong knots, and lashed himself to the little tree. Then he took up the board again, poised it at a perpendicular, calculated the angle, and slowly dropped it. Would the end reach the sill? No, it was too short!Aha! there was Christina, Tellef’s little sister.

"What's gone?" asked his companions in a breath.,Guide the skilful hand and eye,,That night when Mother came into Johnny’s room to say good night, she found him wide awake. His eyes were big and earnest as he whispered, “Oh, Mother, it is wonderful to be heir of Kingthorpe.” And Johnny Blossom that night, for the first time in his life, prayed a prayer that he made himself, instead of repeating the Lord’s Prayer. He said:,When he related the circumstances of his late adventure, the terror of Emilia and Julia was heightened to a degree that overcame every prudent consideration. Their apprehension of the marquis's displeasure was lost in a stronger feeling, and they resolved no longer to remain in apartments which offered only terrific images to their fancy. Madame de Menon almost equally alarmed, and more perplexed, by this combination of strange and unaccountable circumstances, ceased to oppose their design. It was resolved, therefore, that on the following day madame should acquaint the marchioness with such particulars of the late occurrence as their purpose made it necessary she should know, concealing their knowledge of the hidden door, and the incidents immediately dependant on it; and that madame should entreat a change of apartments.,"Jerusalem!" Anson's teeth chattered. "Well, I'm goin' down anyway. I don't mind a hidin', but I'm derned if I'm goin' to lay here and get clawed up by no gorilla.",He finds Mona on his return sitting on a bank, laughing and trying to recover her breath.,“That’s the story, Mr. Whitney,” he finished. “And as the dam is safe, everything seems to be all right only, only—” Here the boy’s voice broke—“the part about Jerry. I—I can’t understand how he could do it—how—how he could be a traitor to the Service—”,"I will help you. Bring only a knife.",There was the sound of the quick intaking of breath, and an audible long-drawn "Oh!" from the girls.,"Is the ship in sight?" exclaimed the Admiral.,“Jimmy.”,"Be virtuous and you'll be happy, but you won't have a good time," quotes Violet; "you should take to heart that latest of copy-book texts.".