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spirit of adventure synonyms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online “Yes; he’d lick him too, if Flash wasn’t Tom’s body-guard.”,"I saw him two or three times yesterday," said Captain Acton. "He had nothing to say about French cruisers in the offing. Nor did he give me a hint that he was taking the necessary steps to quit this Harbour early this morning.",It is pleasant to sport "round the stem of the jolly old tree" in congenial company, and to renew our youth at the bidding of this gracious Toastmaster, the centennial of whose birth we shall celebrate presently; the anniversary of whose death was yester-e'en.,Elinor gave a gently contemptuous sniff as she stowed it away in its corner. "No doubt—with all those experienced students competing! Some of them have been there ten years, Miss Pat. I simply haven't the ghost of a show, and you know it.",The heat was awful; yet it was growing less, for the fire was nearly spent, but Billy was so exhausted he did not perceive it. He began to stumble, to see double. Everything seemed to be on fire,—trees, rocks, even the water gleaming from overhead flames. His blood felt hot in his veins; and long afterward he saw red in his sleep. At length his foot caught in a root, and he fell heavily.，The front hall was very grand. It was two stories high and the floor was of checkered black and white marble. Here you need not be so careful about footmarks as on the other floors, which were all highly polished.，"Oh, what about Dido and her meeting you?"，"Good by, dear Paul," says Mona, very gently, impressed by his evident grief and earnestness.And catch the dying gale that swells remote,

“Ma! Mamma Bennett,” he burst out as he banged open the door; “she’s coming,—our little earthquake girl! The cutest kid,—not so big as the twins, but stylisher in the face.”,"Yes, very beautiful," he answers, thinking of the stately oaks and aged elms and branching beeches that go so far to make up the glory of the ivied Towers.,“So long as it isn’t you, Ladybird, it’s all right,” Billy consoled; “we can make more boats.”,The old woman outside called to them, "Friends, is it smoking in there now?",Betty was trying to keep up the engaging flow of talk but the dance proved to require all her attention.,A subdued murmur of assent ran through the room. Yes, indeed. Of course they all knew Johnny Blossom.,"More comfortable, at least.",Two or three Sundays after they had come to the dam, Bob and Jerry found themselves with a day on their hands.,Her tone, gentle but dignified, steadies him.,"Go outside," he whispered. "Please do; I kin stand anythin', but I don't want you to see it.","The shooting there is capital," says his mother, turning a deaf ear to his muttered interruption, "and I don't believe there is anything in Ireland, not even birds.","There wasn't much society to go into," says Mona, "and I was only fifteen when staying with Aunt Anastasia. She," confidentially, "made rather a grand match for us, you know." (Lady Rodney grinds her teeth, and tells herself she is on the point of fainting.) "She married the Provost of Trinity College; but I don't think he did her any good. She is the oddest old thing! Even to think of her now makes me laugh. You should have seen her," says Mrs. Geoffrey, leaning back in her chair, and giving way to her usual merry laugh, that rings like a peal of silver bells, "with her wig that had little curls all over it, and her big poke-bonnet like a coal-scuttle!".