The
quiet stranger looked at the door calculatingly.
They were not much relieved at sight of an almost naked white man; but when Tarzan had reassured them in
quiet tones, protesting his friendship for them, they opened the barrier a trifle farther and admitted him.
During as much as two minutes there was a most unnatural and heavenly
quiet and repose, then Buffalo Bill came thundering up to the door in all his scout finery, flung himself out of the saddle, said to his horse, "Wait for me, Boy," and stepped in, and stopped dead in his tracks - gazing at the child.
'A
quiet little vicarage, with an ivy-clad porch, an old-fashioned garden, and--'
Meg had a
quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah `knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".
He sat
quiet in a corner, with his fat hands hanging over his thick knees, and his head down, and his eyes looking at nothing.
No one guessed the
quiet pleasure that lay hidden in her heart when she watched the girl's dark head bent over her lessons at night, nor dreamed of her joy it, certain
quiet evenings when Miranda went to prayer meeting; evenings when Rebecca would read aloud Hiawatha or Barbara Frietchie, The Bugle Song, or The Brook.
"Why, you surely don't live (two
quiet women--I see YOU are
quiet, at any rate) in fifty rooms!" Then with a burst of hope and cheer I demanded: "Couldn't you let me two or three?
The deep waters of the lake he had been taught by his wild mother to avoid, and further, had he not seen little Neeta sink beneath its
quiet surface only a few short weeks before never to return to the tribe?
Another told, how he had wondered much that one so delicate as she, should be so bold; how she had never feared to enter the church alone at night, but had loved to linger there when all was
quiet, and even to climb the tower stair, with no more light than that of the moon rays stealing through the loopholes in the thick old wall.
All things, however, were in their places; all was
quiet; and he lay asleep, his white hair picturesque on the untroubled pillow, and his hands lying
quiet on the coverlet.
"Keep yourself
quiet, my lad," said Bartle; "keep
quiet.
