"Oh, that sneak!" cried Laura in a rage, rushing across to the window while the other girls followed close at her heels.

After their first dance, a waltz, Dave led Laura to a seat.

" "Oh, Vi, you give me the creeps," said Laura with a little shiver.

This is a souvenir for Laura of that dreadful night.

Here it comes!" sang out Laura from her place at the window.

But Pen was a sworn fire-worshipper and a corsair; he had them by heart, and used to take little Laura into the window and say, "Zuleika, I am not thy brother," in tones so tragic that they caused the solemn little maid to open her great eyes still wider.

Presently he rose and wandered along the cliffs in search of fuel for the monastery from whence he came, for Abbot Pambo's laura at Scetis.

If you had ever been placed in analogous circumstances, you know, of course, just about the sort of thing that was being said by the two gentlemen at nearly the same moment: Ned, loitering slowly along the sands with Laura on his arm, and Charley, stretched in indolent picturesqueness upon the rocks, with Hattie sitting beside him.

She stood beside Miss Laura for a long time, watching the calves, and laughing a great deal at their awkward gambols.

for Billie had started back so suddenly that she had almost thrown Laura off her balance.

I had indirect news of Laura through my lawyer, who is also their legal adviser.

Valentine, though he often amazed Laura by his fits of melancholy, never forgot to be kind and considerate to her; he had long patience with her little affectations, and the elaborate excuses she made about all sorts of unimportant matters.

I must tell Laura about that.

" "Vieille école bonne école, begad!" cried Major Pendennis, and here would have been a companion for Mrs. Pendennis or a cicerone for Laura after his own heart.

I honoured and esteemed the respectable Laura like a mother; for, though the difference of our ages was by no means sufficient to authorise the sentiment, it was irresistibly suggested to me by the fact of her always being presented to my observation under the maternal character.