Mine Games

Mine Games among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles "I'd heard her say the Saturday that Miss Jinny came to see us that she never made sketches beforehand," said Judith, earnestly. "And she told Patricia the very day Elinor fainted that she hadn't begun her study. So I pretended to myself that we were all in a story, and I thought and thought what I should make of it if I were reading about it all instead of living in it. Then I saw that the thing to do was to find out if Doris Leighton had the little color sketch that she used for her study, and compare it with Elinor's.","She want you to-day," insisted Dido, obstinately.,“Won’t be much chance,” put in Bob, “if they’ve been to the hut. But if they were going to leave me there without food or water, perhaps you can get ’em.”,Asta led the way at once to the candy shop.,"I quite forgot it," she says, coloring with sudden fear, and then slowly, cautiously, she draws up to view the hated pistol he had left in the library the night before. She holds it out to him at arm's length, as though it is some noisome reptile, as doubtless indeed she considers it. "Take it," she says; "take it quickly. I brought it to you, meaning to return it. Good gracious! fancy my forgetting it! Why, it might have gone off and killed me, and I should have been none the wiser."，"I never thought of such a thing," protested Jen. "I do not suspect you."，"No, I am not. Anything but that; and to be rude"—slowly—"answers no purpose. But I have some common sense, I hope."，“Here’s Mis’ Mifsud an’ St. Elmo comin’ in the buckboard,” he announced."This young person, though evidently of an investigating turn of mind, has not quite fathomed the nature of the reigning beauty of our little coterie. Being of a candid and affable nature herself, she fails to comprehend how the fangs of the green-eyed monster, once fastened in the tender heart of said beauty, make the said beauty so mortally uncomfy that she's bound to take it out on somebody—and who so natural or convenient as the critter who sicked the serpent on her."

"Why, they can't help it," explains he. "They are sent half the time.",The man-eater was the seventh and last of the bad things to be destroyed by Kŭt-o-yĭs´.,Then she knows she is speaking to "the Australian," (as she has heard him called), and, lifting her head, examines his face with renewed interest. Not a pleasant face by any means, yet not altogether bad, as she tells herself in the generosity of her heart.,Immediately thirty boys and girls leaped to their feet and windows went up with a bang.,"What does he say about it?" asks Violet, who shows no sign whatever of meaning to wear the willow for this misguided Benedict, but rather exhibits all a woman's natural curiosity to know exactly what he has said about the interesting event that has taken place.,"There should be plenty to be done," said she. "There is the Army.",She shrinks a little from the task, and would fain have evaded it altogether; though there is happiness, too, in the thought that here is an occasion on which she may be of real use to him. Will not the very act itself bring her nearer to him? Is it not sweet to feel that it is in her power to ease his pain? And is she not only doing what a tender wife would gladly do for her husband?,“How do they manage about the wood at your house nowadays?” asked Jeremias.,Now he takes advantage of this general permission, and closes them with a soft caress.,They went up in the little box of an elevator, and as they got out, Bruce jingled his keys invitingly.,She picked up the saucer and stood looking down at the gold piece which Croaker had brought in. "I don't s'pose there's a particle of use keepin' an eye on that crow?" she asked.,This time Isabella burst out into a girlish laugh of genuine amusement..