Khan's Wild Quest

Khan's Wild Quest TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS AND WEIGHTS. "Her mother was of good family, I believe.","Very well, Walter, you may go home and get a pail of water. My experience with school wells," glancing out of the window to the blue pump, "has been that during the holidays they become a veritable death trap for frogs, mice and other vermin.",She was looking away across the forest to a strip of fleecy cloud drifting across the deep azure of the sky.,“Yes, there goes a steamer to the east, and a beautiful boat lies right near here, and far out there is sail after sail.”,"Yes; I am that most despicable of all things, a third son."，Major Jen listened quietly, and waited until Maurice ended his story before he spoke. The information about Mrs. Dallas and her reference to himself did not surprise him so much as Alymer expected it would do. In fact he only made one brief remark upon this point.，"An' phwat is ut?" Old Harry's interest was real. He laid his pipe down on the table and leaned towards Billy.，“Can’t stop. It’s private anyway.” He waved his hand, ran across the foot-bridge and down the road, dodged into the brush for his wheel; and in a moment they heard his shout as he sped by toward town.“Can you forgive me, Nell? This guiding star of Moses is our guiding star, too.” After a moment Howard continued, “I wish we could transplant this morning-glory into our garden, don’t you?”

"I wasn't," says Mona: "I went out a great deal. All day long I was in the open air. That is what made my hands so brown last autumn.","Then I suppose when there you were too young to go out?" pursues the poor duchess, striving for information.,“There aren’t many persons with a sewed-on finger tip, are there, mother?” asked John, with some pride.,Judith swept her adoring gaze from the Victory to her sister's face.,"I know you are, and I admire your taste.","Of course we're going," said Elinor, evenly. "What else should we do? And I want you to persuade Miss Jinny to stay over for it, Miss Pat.","Doctors!" she cried scornfully. "Little enough they know the needs of a woman at such a time. A doctor may be all right in his place, but his place ain't here among us woods folk. I tell you now I know my duty an' I'll do it because they need me.",Jen drew back a step and looked at his ward with marked surprise.,"Like the fool she is," said the doctor, putting on his hat. "Well, I am going. Will you see me to-morrow morning?","Out? Oh, ever so much," says Mrs. Geoffrey.,One day, speaking of Sir Nicholas to Lady Rodney, she had—as was most natural—called him "Nicholas." But she had been cast back upon herself and humiliated to the earth by his mother's look of cold disapproval and the emphasis she had laid upon the "Sir" Nicholas when next speaking of him.,Another thing that was pleasant about going to Tellef’s was that no one there talked to him about being heir of Kingthorpe and all that. He was sick of that subject now..