Book Of Champions - European Glory

Book Of Champions - European Glory 129. Lady Gwendoline’s Dream "Oh, why did you come?" she said to her father. "They will surely kill you.","What an awful picture!" cried Miss Proudfoot.,“I did,” said Mr. Whitney, “but as the dam will furnish enough water to irrigate one hundred and eighty thousand acres, you see that brings the cost down to about forty dollars an acre, which won’t be much once it is all under cultivation. This charge is like a mortgage—the Government is secured by the land itself. But it won’t be long now—two or three years at the outside—before the dam is finished and the land is ready to be cultivated. Ted Adams, my predecessor here, finished up a diversion dam below at Leesburg which has been a help.”,Dropping the boat-hook, he swam the couple of strokes that would bring him to the wharf, and climbed up.,I would hint, those who marry in haste，Moses eyed his pet with solicitude. “Pore little beggar, he’s clean tuckered out,” he said. “He’ll need a good supper.” According to Moses’ idea, an excellent meal was the panacea for all earthly troubles.，“All but Sour; an’ sister’s fixed him. He’s crazy over music, and she got his father to let him take lessons, and that kid’s her slave ever since. But it isn’t minding, Ladybird; the guys take my cue, and we tell things we’ve hunted up in the week about the lesson; and sister tells things, and we’re so busy we forget to be silly.”，"Better not remember it," says Violet, but she smiles as she calls to mind Jack's apt quotation.“Yes, now. Once she must have been about the same size, you know.” She stood behind the child caressing her cheek.

“Are you as old as us? We’re seven,” Vilette said a bit loftily, as she discovered herself taller than May Nell.,She withers Sir Nicholas with a parting glance, and then quits the room, Violet in her train, leaving her eldest son entirely puzzled.,"Where's Bill?","Send the people about and make enquiries," answered Captain Acton. "She is making calls. It is the Minorca that has disappeared.",The young man replied, "I am mourning day and night, crying all the while. My little son, who is the only one left me, also mourns.","There it is!" said Miss Acton. "Give me a sea as smooth as our lawn, and I will accompany you, my dear.",No, it had not occurred to Johnny Blossom that it was anything to be particularly glad about.,As soon as he shook the water out of his eyes a glance showed him what had happened. Some freak of nature had left a ledge in the bottom of the river over which the water flowed, making a waterfall of perhaps six or eight feet. So even was the edge of the fall that it had not been visible to them as they came down stream through the first rough water.,The “Lady of the Lake” was that moment deserted.,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.,"Pooh, that's as easy as rolling off a log," she said, with a toss of her turban. "If you'd added acetylene and alcohol you'd made it a bit longer.",Moses’ face became as mournful as his music had been. It was as though he had suddenly realized that life was, after all, more serious than one suspects in one’s idle moments..