Which preposition to use with dicks
Now, the timelyor untimelyappearance of Jack and Dick in the crisis of the plot came about in this way: Dick, on returning from Jack's room, had remarked, with quickening suspicion, a gleam of light under Wesley's door.
and you, Sir, from your Bride? Enter Dick with Sack.
She took the painful duty of order upon herself, sent Jack to summon the servants, called Barney to her aid in removing Dick to his room, and, when the terrified housemaids came, distributed the rest to the nearest apartments.
"Do you remember the haunted house at Rushville, the place Mr. Sanderson called the Jamison home?" asked Dick of his brothers.
The ladies were waiting for them when they emerged into the corridorsRosa began, prettily, to rally Dick on his tardiness.
I am engaged to Dick for the next dance.
"Well, this is social!" said Dick at length; "how much farther do you want to go?
" Jones crept away, leaving Dick by no means easy in his mind, but he no longer felt the terror that numbed him in the deep wood.
Had Elsie been like other girls, her father might have been less willing to entertain a young fellow like Dick as an inmate; but he had long outgrown all the slighter apprehensions which he might have had in common with all parents, and followed rather than led the imperious instincts of his daughter.
" "Who are you?" asked Dick after a pause.
That evening she hurried home, and had tea with her mother; then, taking little Dick between them, they went to the undertaker's establishment to be present at the funeral of Miss Jennings.
" She returned to the dressing-room, taking a volume of Dick from the book-case as she passed it; and sitting in a warm corner, half concealed by somebody's shawl and somebody's cloak, she read, or thought she read, until the bell for the short afternoon session sounded.
"You've turned Dick into a seamstress, have you, Rosalind?
Perhaps he has gone with the main body, not venturing to try for Jones and Dick without help?
But how can we gowith Dick against the door?
There did not seem to be the slightest anger against him, in that he had thriven and had left Dick behind him in such wretched poverty.
" "Good Lord!" ejaculated Dick beneath his breath, "who's that?" "Hush," whispered Jake.
And I forbid you ever to speak of Dick like that again to me.
'Pon my word of honour, says I to Sally when her telled I, we shall have little Dick out of the infant-school next!"
And notwithstanding the vein of quiet recklessness that had carried Dick through his preposterous scheme, he was a very poor liar, having rarely had occasion or inclination to tell anything but the truth.
There were sweethearts, and wives, and lovers at the feast, but we question if any heart there was so full of love, and admiration, and gratitude, as that of the Widow Varley as she watched her son Dick throughout that merry evening.
"I move we go down to the post-office for mail," said Dick toward evening.
He'd got the pawn-ticket, and at last Peter, forgetting all he'd said to Ginger Dick about using bad langwidge, took 'is clothes off, one by one, and dashed 'em on the floor, and told Isaac some of the things 'e thought of 'im.