"I guess that's just what I am going to tell you," said Billie, her fists clasped so tightly that the knuckles showed white.

"He must be very much hurt indeed, or very, very old," thought Billie as, with one hand clasped tightly in Laura's and the other gripping Violet's arm, she watched intently.

who carried our President away in time," and the matron clasped her hands fervently as she sank in a chair.

He was bidden to come in, and when he raised the flap he saw her sitting with her hands clasped loosely and resting upon her knees.

Across the street a dark-eyed girl had clasped the arm of her companion in hysterical excitement.

" Donnegan had clasped his hands upon his breast and his eyes were wide.

And then Lou Macon was on her knees with her hands clasped at her breast and her face glorious.

I could not see the countenance thereof: hands were clasped tightly over it.

So they crept inside with sighs of relief, and Wampus had just mounted to the front seat again and disposed himself to rest when Uncle John trotted up, clad in his trousers and shirt, with the balance of his apparel clasped in his arms.

"Don't!" cried Myrtle, her clear voice ringing over the lap of the waves; "please don't!" He swung around and turned his gaunt features upward to where the young girl leaned upon her crutches, with clasped hands and a look of distress upon her sweet face.

He clasped Mr. Merrick's hand in his own as he said with feeling: "She has saved me, sir.

" Martinez of San Domingo, he of the horrible experience, nodded with a lurking smile, curled a leg under him and clasped his fingers behind his head.

" "What are they doing, dear?" asked the mother, with clasped hands.

" "And did I say something wrong orfoolish?" "O, no, no," she replied; "you only clasped your hands, so, and prayed, prayed all the time to the dear Virgin.

"Thou wilt not, beautiful?" "Cannot!" was all that she could utter, and upon their clasped hands the tears ran down.

She sat perfectly still, her hands clasped tightly in her lap, as the wave of misery swept over her.

One great singer followed rapidly after another, and Ida, with slightly flushed face and eyes that were dim with unshed tearsfor the exquisite music thrilled her to the coreleant back, with her hands tightly clasped in her lap, her thoughts flying back to Herondale and those summer evenings which, in some strange way, every song recalled.

Stafford sat with his hands clasped on the table, his eyes fixed on Falconer's impassive face.

For Ida's eyes had closed and her hands had clasped each other spasmodically.

she said at last, as, with clasped hands, she surveyed Ida from top to toe anxiously and greedily.

His hands, clasped behind his back, held his ivory-headed cane, and as our hero approached he turned an evil countenance upon him, and greeted him with a grin at once droll, mischievous, and malevolent in the extreme.

He clasped it like a shield against his body, its broad end nearest his face.

So the big hand clasped the small one, and as they looked at each other, there sprang up a certain understanding that was to be an enduring bond between them.

Now, as they trudged along together, Small Porges with one hand clasped in Bellew's, and the other supporting the bundle on his shoulder, there appeared, galloping towards them a man on a fine black horse, at sight of whom, Porges' clasp tightened, and he drew nearer to Bellew's side.

But now Small Porges finding him so silent, and seeing where he looked, must needs behold her too, and gave a sudden, glad cry, and ran out from behind the great bulk of "King Arthur," and she, hearing his voice, turned and ran to meet him, and sank upon her knees before him, and clasped him against her heart, and rejoiced, and wept, and scolded him, all in a breath.