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party meaning It was not my desire to linger. This word of commendation from his comrade pleased Bob immensely. It was the first word of approval he had had from his gloomy chum. “Easier, that’s all!” he answered. But both boys were glad when a new stretch of still water was reached.,Patricia longed to ask a question, but Margaret Howes saved her the necessity.,"Oh yes," said a voice.,"Nothing more since the privateersman was run in," said Captain Acton.,"Yes, I hear you. But must you say this? Have I ever sought a quarrel with—Geoffrey's mother?"，When poor Mr. Carter died, the next day she said, "Now, Mary, you are entirely too young to live all your long years of widowhood alone, and as I am in the same condition, I will let my cottage, and move up the street into your house to protect and console you." And she did—the moving and the protecting.，Envious streaks，“Please,” answered the discomfited youth, “I aint never seen a ship of no kind.”"There isn't a soul in sight," she announced. "Hustle while the coast's clear. Someone may come back at any moment."

He piled on all the sticks he had and watched the flames mount higher and higher until the whole doorway was a sheet of roaring fire.,Paul Rodney, standing where she has left him, watches her retreating figure until it is quite out of sight, and the last gleam of the crimson silk handkerchief is lost in the distance, with a curious expression upon his face. It is an odd mixture of envy, hatred, and admiration. If there is a man on earth he hates with cordial hatred, it is Geoffrey Rodney who at no time has taken the trouble to be even outwardly civil to him. And to think this peerless creature is his wife! For thus he designates Mona,—the Australian being a man who would be almost sure to call the woman he admired a "peerless creature.","My dear Oliver!" protests Lady Rodney, mildly.,“Be off with yourself, boy!” he would always say if Johnny Blossom but put his nose in at the stable door.,"What a funny boy you are!" says Mona, with a little laugh.,"What a day we're avin'," says Mr. Darling, disdaining to notice this puerile remark. "It's been pouring since early dawn. I feel right down cheap,—very nearly as depressed as when last night Nicholas stuck me down to dance with the Æsthetic.",Away darted Johnny Blossom without a word. Out of the stable, across the grounds, and up to an outlying field he ran as if for dear life. In a far corner of the field he threw himself down, and burying his face in the grass cried bitterly, and so hard that his whole body shook with his sobbing.,She found Elinor perturbed and excited beyond her wont.,“Would you dare sit up on the big red pear?” asked Olaf.,"Glorious night that makes us strong,,All this time Mr. Wopp had carried and brushed and shaken stove-pipe lengths until his face and bald head resembled a latticework trellis. Only one length remained to be operated on before proceeding to the upper storey, where the stove-pipe continued its tortuous way to the chimney, warming sundry rooms on its beneficent course.,The astonishment of Julia would scarcely suffer her to assist the lady who lay senseless on the floor. A multitude of strange imperfect ideas rushed upon her mind, and she was lost in perplexity; but as she examined the features of the stranger; which were now rekindling into life, she thought she discovered the resemblance of Emilia!.