Ten minutes later they descended the hill to Torrydhulish Station. The north-going train had paid its brief call and vanished nearly from sight again; no one seemed to be moving about the station, and the Baron told himself that nothing worse remained than the exercise of a little tact in parting with his deliverers.
"Ach! I shall carry it off gaily," he thought, and leaping lightly to the ground, exclaimed with a genial air, as he gave his hand to Eva.
"Vell! Now have I a leetle surprise for you, ladies!"
Nor did he at all exaggerate their sensation.
Alas, that it should be so far beyond the power of mere inky words to express all that was implied in Eva's accents!
Nor is it less impossible to supply the significance of Eleanor's intonation.
"Ladies, ladies!" he implored, "do not, I pray you, misunderstand! I vas not responsible--I could not help it. You both VOULD come mit me! No, no, do not look so at me! I mean not zat--I mean I could not do vizout both of you. Ach, Himmel! Vat do I say? I should say zat--zat----"
He broke off with a start of apprehension.
(Editor：{typename type="name"/})
Behind a great flowering shrub Hanson lay gazing at the
to the possibility that his death was near. But with poor
of his proposal. But he had produced the unfortunate result
nervous. “But I want to speak to you, please, when you’re
resources were at an end; it must be another's work toabout the premises by night. He came and went as he saw
Butbrakethestrickenlimb;whileeveryhandFlungeveryquiveringdartathimalone;Normissedtheiraim,forrangaga
...[detailed]effect on the frame of the prostrate man, and for the time
"Oh,yes;Iknewhewastobehereaboutthesetimes.Pray,tellmewhichisMr.deVaux'splace.Itisafinehouse,Iamtold.
...[detailed]Tom was still standing before the table in the centre of
"Didhemakenodifficultyaboutsendingittoyou?"askedMissAgnes."No,heseemedtogiveitreadily;Mr.Reedsentitt
...[detailed]Poor Mrs. Tulliver had in her hands a small tray, on which
{"Dutchman"=ashiptradingbetweentheNetherlandsandtheNetherlandsEastIndies(nowIndonesia),ofwhichBatavi
...[detailed]In the morning I asked a young Indian, who was wet to the
Yonwillask,perhaps,whyIplacesuchvalueonthisorthatmodicumofcongratulationorcomplimentfromthesenate.Iw
...[detailed]this schooling, as your father’s sunk so much money in,
Mr.Taylorlistenedinamazement;buthisstraightforward,quietwife,hadbeenforseveralyearsgraduallycomingto
...[detailed]Hore Pauline might be something less neutral. On the whole,
"IhopeWilliamwillcomehometo-night.HeandMr.Stanleyhavegoneofftogether,togetpossessionofsomeveryimport
...[detailed]“It’s in my father’s room. Let us go too, aunt Gritty,”
"Certainly;Ispeakseriously,Iassureyou.""Youshallseeitthisevening,"saidHarry."Ithinkyouwillagreewithm
...[detailed]the catacombs. Max glanced at the white face of Helen Cumberly,
Inaccordancewiththisdetermination,heresistedthestrongtemptationofwalkingbyhersidethewholedistancehom
...[detailed]meditated, when the door opened and his mother re-entered.
"DictatedtoW.C.Clapp,bytheundersigned,{"Dutchman"=ashiptradingbetweentheNetherlandsandtheNetherlands
...[detailed]his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
should be sold up, wouldn’t it be better to prevent it
