The marriage of Prosper Riggs and Miss Pottinger was quietly celebrated at Sacramento, but Prossy's "old mother" did not return with the happy pair.
Suddenly he uttered a slight exclamation, and quietlyslipped from the back of the toiling coach to the ground.
Boyle lingered a moment at the window to show him the figure of Miss Cantire still peacefully slumbering among her pile of cushions, and then turned quietly away.
A single glance at the interior determined him not to linger, and he slipped quietly into the open air and sunshine.
Mr. Brooks slipped his arms around her waist, quietly lifted her from the bench--feeling her little teeth pierce the back of his hand as he did so, but secured the book.
But he quietly disengaged it and lifted her to her seat.
And settling her veil over her face, she quietly passed out.
Colonel Starbottle, who had risen with a deep bow at their entrance and remained standing, here walked quietly towards them.
There's no harm in imagining things, I hope, provided one goes quietlyand ploddingly on in what the ministers call "the path of duty.
He told us it was "of course more pleasant for women to be like the noisy cascade, and to mount the platform, than to imitate the gentle, silent rivulet, and stay quietly at home out of the public eye.
And so the slow procession passed, though no one knew who slept so quietly amid all that din and noise; but knowing only that some heart, some home was desolate.
If brides could hear this, they would quietly and with dignity announce, "No presents received," even without any reservations as to relationship.
Thank you," said Nick, as quietly as if it had been a long engagement.
But his eyes lit with a faint spark of anticipation, and his cheeks worked with a slight twitching of the nerves, for, as he talked, in short sentences, he was quietly rolling and cooking his dose of opium.
He answered quietly that it was now some time since he had seen Mrs. May, but he supposed she was well, and still in California, probably in San Francisco.
He had been sitting quietly and listening to what others said until his turn seemed to come, but now he arose, and all seemed willing to listen.
Towards the middle of the afternoon, Na-tee-kah slipped quietly out at the upper end of the camp, carrying her own buckskin sack nearly full of something, and nobody thought of asking her what there might be in it.
It was natural that none should linger near the smoke and smell of camp-fires and cookery, but it was queer that the two young hunters should canter quietly on for mile after mile, and not so much as get a shot at a deer.
He was lying on the grass, quietly enough, just after that.
He looked away off into the valley and saw another token that he was alone in that part of it: no less than three gangs of deer were feeding quietly between him and a bit of forest not more than half a mile away.
The next day, when I went to the bank, I quietly transferred six thousand dollars from my drawer to my pocket, with hardly a tithe of the compunction with which I had appropriated my first loan.
Surrounded by treason in his own cabinet,[4] he has looked quietly on while his Secretary of War supplied the insurgents with government arms.
If you do not like what he has brought you, or find that you cannot eat it, make your objection in a low voice, so as not to be heard by the neighbouring guests; and quietly desire him to bring you something else.
And she will quietly take her leave, informing you that she is your best friend, and that all she has said was entirely for your own good, and that she shall continue to admonish you whenever she sees occasion.
But if you are unavoidably late, be satisfied to pay the penalty, by quietly taking back-seats, if no others are vacant.
However delicate may be her own ear, or exquisitely fastidious her own taste, she may be assured that few of her audience would detect any deficiency, if she only went quietly on, and did not herself imply that deficiency.
By-the-bye, there is no better way of stopping a tantrum than quietly to divert the child's attention to something else.
The Confusor churkled quietly as the piece of plastic exerted its tiny mass in a six hundred forty pound attempt to take off towards the north star.
A number of vacant racks, some holding the testing equipment he had moved there not too many hours before--and churkling quietly in its rack near the floor, Ishie's Confusor of Confusion.
I'll just keep on being puzzled quietly and without indicating the slightest magneto-ionic dubiousness, if you'd rather.
He must now get to the machine shop, and enter it without triggering any more of those--he laughed quietly to himself--Security servos.
He smoked his cigar and looked on quietly till the thing was accomplished, and then paced aft by my side along the weather poop.
As quietly as was possible, I clewed up the topsails, lowered the flying jib and staysail, backed the jib over, and flattened the mainsail.
That's a lie, Wolf Larsen," I said, just as quietly as before.
A great simpleton I would be to sit here quietly and wait for you to make a fortune with your bits of woods!
She helped Antone gather his vegetables for market, and when he returned sat beside him quietly while he carved the last pumpkin from his garden.
Without attempting a recognition, for Vanslyperken cared little for the opinion of the Frau Vandersloosh, now that he was accepted by the fair widow of Portsmouth, Mr Vanslyperken walked quietly away.
Corporal Van Spitter, who imagined that Mr Short was about to comply with his request after his own Harpocratic fashion, remained quietly on the deck until Jemmy Ducks made his appearance.
But while they were getting the whip ready on the starboard, Jemmy Ducks was very quietly employed getting another on the larboard yard-arm, which nobody took notice of.
Gradually she receded, supposing that she had not been discovered, and closed the door quietly after her leaving Ramsay for a few seconds at the glass, with his eyes fixed upon the point at which she had disappeared.
Their horses were mostly "unsaddled and unbridled, and hence not fit for a fight," while many of them were grazing loosely and quietly in the adjoining fields.
The night following passed quietly away, except that the leaders were laying their plans for future operations.
This change in our plans of attack was probably known by the Rebels before they were matured at Washington, and we now understand why they so quietly evacuated their positions on our front.
They quietly repulsed the Rebels twice, and the third time they came up they sent them flying into Funkstown.
There they had quietly waited until the train was passing before them, with the hope that this might be captured or stampeded, and a glorious victory be won.
During the night two of our officers, who stepped into the thicket, were quietly captured.
Ther Kaintuckians," murmured onlookers along the broken sidewalks as that cavalcade dismounted in the court house square to file quietly through the entrance doors, and eyes narrowed in a sinister augury of hostile welcome.
After a moment, though, he smiled quietlyand glanced about the little group.
Dorothy had slipped quietly into the room and chosen a seat at the chimney corner where she sat as voiceless as a nun who has taken vows of silence.
Sim knew that when Rowlett had quietly stirred into life the forces from which the secret body was born he had been building for one purpose--and one purpose only.
That night while the patriarch dozed in his hickory withed chair with his pipe drooping from his wrinkled lips his granddaughter slipped quietly out of the house and went over to the tree.
Yet as the three had stood on the spot where Bas Rowlett had crouched that day Sim's keen eye had detected a small object half buried in the earth and quietly he had covered it with his foot.
But Bas Rowlett was too adroit to betray by more than a single unguarded flash his jealous reaction to mention of the girl and he responded quietly and unemotionally enough.
As it was, the mob had come for him alone, so he walked over and laid his revolver quietly down on the table.
Below that shelf of rock, kissed by the long shadow of the mountain, lay the valley with its loop of quietly moving water.
But he mastered his first impulse to seize the wretch and throw him from the window into the street, and quietly remarked: "As I have twice before observed, sir, all these things remain to be seen and proved.
Upon inquiring about the pictures of the dealer referred to, Edith was informed that Gerald Goddard had died only the week previous of quick consumption, and his body had been quietly interred in Greenwood, according to his own instructions.
Down to my dinner," she quietly replied, but confronting him with undaunted bearing.
Thus, after the first glance of surprise at madam, she turned and quietly followed the man who was taking up her trunk.
Thank you, Emil," he quietly replied; "but I cannot accept your very kind offer.
I will make it for you--I will go to take care of you in it, if you like," she quietly answered.
Will you still contest the point of Miss Allandale's freedom, or will you quietly withdraw your claim, and allow it to be publicly announced, through the Boston papers, that that ceremony in Wyoming was simply a farce after all?
Noiselessly Mrs. Weld went about her duties, her footfalls dropping as quietly as the snow.
Within half an hour, Denbigh was placed on a couch in the house of Sir Edward, and was quietly waiting for that professional aid which could only decide on his probable fate.
Cooper was scarcely in France when he remembered his friends of the weekly club, and sent frequent missives to be read at its meetings; but the club missed its founder went into a decline, and not long afterwards quietly expired.
For some time each was occupied quietly with her needle, when Mrs. Wilson suddenly broke the silence by saying: "Who is Colonel Egerton?
Miss Chatterton found courage to wait quietly for the care of John.
Emily looked at her aunt in anxious expectation of what was coming, and quietly taking the paper, followed the direction of Mrs. Wilson's finger to the article on the marriage of Denbigh.
The horses being ready, the old bachelor was placed carefully between his nephew and niece, and in that manner they rode onquietly to the Hall, the dread of accident keeping Mr. Benfield silent most of the way.
There was a pledge of innocence, of modesty in her countenance, that would have prevented any misconstruction; and he continued quietly awaiting what the preparations on her little mahogany secretary were intended for.
Continuing, Professor Huxley shows how the theologians try to wiggle out of all that this implies by quietly changing the natural meaning of the words used by the bible writers.
When he came into the house, I perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books.
As resistance to this cruel mandate would have been worse than useless, Huetzin suffered himself to be led quietly away by a file of soldiers, and, on the following morning, was taken to the city of Tlascala.
As Huetzin quietly entered the water and swam away, the man emerged from his hut, keeping up the angry shouting that the young Toltec would so gladly have silenced.
For two days the besiegers quietly awaited an answer to their message.
As he spoke he pointed to one of the floating islands dimly outlined not far from them, and at the same time quietly slipped into the water.
Alarmed at the sight of a patient thus disobeying her command to rest quietly until he had recovered his strength, she at once ordered him back to his bed.
Marina, who had ceased to sob, and now lay quietly beneath the warm rabbit-hair blanket that the old woman had spread over her, listened to this conversation.
There bidding adieu to all that remained of her former state, she pursued her journey quietly to Italy.
But the poet wore his laurels unscathed, and, for aught I know to the contrary, died quietly in his bed.
Having proven their continued manhood and womanhood, they can look their brother men of whatever nation in the face, quietly yielding precedence where deserved, and as quietly claiming their own dues.
As a Chinaman does not hesitate to commit suicide when excited and alarmed, so Taukwang quietly acquiesced in terms which were fatal to the independence of his empire.
She listened attentively to the close, and then quietly informed him that both the spirits and himself were in error, for that Henry was the elder and George died first.
Under this tree, with Tweed rippling at his feet, he spent many an hour in communion with himself, quietly weaving those strains that have immortalized him.
You have put forth notions radically false and practically mischievous on fundamental questions; and you have done it in the way most calculated to impose on the minds of the ignorant and unthinking--by quietly assuming their truth.
The cussed varmint had watched me from the house and seed I had no weapons, and when I upsot he just counted me his'n, and was quietly calculatin' on the bank how he'd best git me out of the water.
Sam's efforts at amusement failed upon the strangers, for one was quietly weeping, while the other wore a scowl of anger.
Allen seated himself quietly and comfortably at his coffee, and imbibed it with a relish that drove the idea of sickness into a hopeless decline.
It would be too hard a task to reach the city beyond the wood until the stream once more runsquietly between its banks.
Then the driver of the wagon went quietly up to the panting steed, and said a few words to it.
Meanwhile Bertalda sat quietly in the ship, thinking of all the strange things that had happened.
The fisherman, his wife and their foster-child lived very quietly on this pleasant spot.
It seemed useless to try any longer to force my way past the white face, so I went on riding quietlyalong the one path left open to me.
As the waters ran more quietly through the valley, Undine flew to them swiftly as a bird and drew them up out of reach of the water.
The knight marvelled that the waters had suddenly grown peaceful, and that now again they were gliding quietly along their usual course.
Bertalda wept by his side, and for a long time they lived quietly together, thinking and talking of none save the beautiful Undine.
The fisherman raised his cap as the stranger drew near, and then quietly went on mending his nets.
Quietly it flowed around the grave of the knight and then onward until it joined the river which ran past the little village church.
She read quietly for some time, pretending not to notice that she found the book open with the spout of Tea Pot lying against one of the pages.
The little girls worked pretty quietly until they were ready to pour out the candy.
But Brother was already sittingquietly near Mother, and Mary Frances hurried softly downstairs.
The anxiety and excitement are over now, and the joy of their first meeting too; they might quietly sit down to table, but such an idea never occurs to one of them.
Priscus told me,' he said, laying his thin hand quietly on her arm.
As I said, we had grown to be very confidential on account of some commissions I had quietly done for him, and he gradually began to sound me with a view to getting my help in his operations.
The potter went home, and after gathering a few articles of clothing and food together in a wallet, he quietlyresumed work until the time came for departure.
Previous to this Afer had quietly sent off a message to Cestus by the Greek Erotion.
His wondering wife's hand on his shoulder roused him, and he followed quietly to bed, but not to sleep.
Presently she went quietly to the door of the workshop, and, tapping gently, asked for admission.
Plautia doggedly, 'I mean to land by myself, quietlyand unobserved, on the island.
I was too soft-hearted to make away with it altogether, so I took it to Surrentum quietly and unknown to him, and there she has remained till now, as you see.
As his voice fell quietly on the calm air the female figure came forth and confronted him.
The current of existence in his own nest had, therefore, been uniformly calm andquietly happy, even through his early struggles.
