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...n of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He stalks her and persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only sevent...
.... It was definitely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep ... ... roads that appeared near Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although the bus traveled down the highway as a solid, jitterless mass, he jittered in... ...man and it had all gone awry. Sang Huin sighed. He took off his shoes in the bus. He stroked his feet, in short white sports socks, across the vinyl o... ...ough his billfold for a calling card. He went to the front of this high-tech bus and made a call. "Yoboseyo." "Yoboseyo. Yang Lin bakwa chuseyo." Sile... ...in that area he sometimes got up around 4 a.m nonetheless; took an hour long bus ride to that small town he had once lived in; walked near bowing rice... ...e of his nationality. Now it was Kim Yang Kwam he kept thinking about in the bus. Sang Huin was labeled as dirty a few nights ago: the way he walked o... ...sical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair. The bus was becoming full now. Still, no one was standing. Maybe, he thought,... ...tinct was to follow his former friend to the ends of the earth on the public bus system and to harass him in the bus by making him feel miserable for ... ...ome passively. On what seemed like an eternal trip, cramped on a seat in the bus, disconnection was making his mind jittery, soft, and rolling like a ...
...3 One day, when Pete went to visit his grandmother, he fell asleep on the bus on his way back home. “Wake up, young man,” a loud voice startled h... ... his way back home. “Wake up, young man,” a loud voice startled him, “this bus is going back to the station.” Pete rubbed his eyes and woke up. Re... ...is eyes and woke up. Realizing that he had missed his stop, he got off the bus and found himself in an unfamiliar place. He looked around and saw ... ...y make one wish.” 2 Pete said goodbye to the wizard and soon he was on a bus heading back home. “I should wish for grandma to get better!” Pete ... ...at it’s magic and the bike will disappear. So what can I do?” Meanwhile the bus had reached his stop. Pete got up, looked at all the passengers, and... ... is a wizard that makes them happen!” Pete shouted so that everyone on the bus could hear him. And he spoke the secret words: “Miracles can happen... ...use now the wizard could make everyone’s wishes come true. Pete got off the bus and walked down the sidewalk to his home. His house looked just like...
... exactly a home. What she ran to, was a little shelter against the back of a bus stop. She was a beggar-girl! 34 She took Twinklinka right away to a ...
...ear old lungs felt like lead weights as Chris plonked herself down on the bus stop bench and stretched out her legs in an unladylike manner. Taking ... ...manner. Taking a deep breath, Chris stood to watch the rickety old school bus draw near, packed with boisterous kids screaming obscenities from the ... ...posture reflected her intensions, as did the angry glint in her eyes. The bus off-loaded a dozen or more students, who moved back in an un-orderly f... ... did not share the same ideals in regards to femininity. Stepping off the bus, without so much as a hello, Kelly continued down the footpath rolling ... ...a watched her mother grasp Mitchell by the arm and haul him back onto the bus, which by this time had many vacant seats. Mr. Jago, the bus driver, t... ...imbed onto another’s shoulders and peering through the back window of the bus, looked straight into Christine O’Keith’s wrath. The woman thumped at ... ... his rear vision mirror at Jackson and his mates, whom now sat silent. The bus driver shook his head whilst mumbling something under his breath perta... ..., she got her nose right out of joint and contacted Chris. She even got a bus down from Sydney to Melbourne… I think it was Sydney, anyway, she came... ...are moment she got, whether it was in the bath, shopping, waiting for the bus or taking Julian to play group. Carrying a little gold pen around with...
...overpasses, at the edges of parks, with legs dangling from the benches of bus stops, within obscure shadows of parking lots, and there to be stumbled... ...meone, anyone, not you specifically— should be allowed to take a greyhound bus from New Orleans to Baltimore, and without being invited, knock on our ... ..., did He use AT&T to tell you to pack up your things, head on a Greyhound bus, and plunk your butt on our door step? That is what we have to determi... ...ou shouldn’t as you seem to like them, you will be put back on a greyhound bus headed for New Orleans. I hope that is clear. Fresca darling, I bet y... ...ove of mankind that never really existed, and that time of sitting on the bus next to a young man with myriad inflammations like warts on his neck an... ...ried to hide under a bulky hat as his head tilted toward the floor of the bus, and of her putting his hand into her own. Sister Mary Elizabeth...
...compliance, Phoebe accordingly betook herself to weeding a flower-bed, but bus- ied herself still more with cogitations respecting this young man, wit...
...Emma was sitting on a bench next to a bus stop. It was morning on a busy street and the road in front of her was full of traffic. There was a bus shelter next to the bench and there were a few people inside. They were looking at her. A woman was sitting next t...
...t with very little effort I could get top marks in most subjects. I rarely studied more than I had to and I blitzed through my homework on the school bus home. While Mum finished work in the front room, I cooked dinner for us both, listening to her scissors snip through her comfortable conversations with clients. I spent the rest of my evenings with one of the seven books ...
...rethought founded? Does he try the ring of it with our changed conditions? Bus a man of forethought who has to be one of our geysers ebullient by the ...
...gh to collect her jacket and handbag. She caught the number 6 cross-town bus from the stop in front of the building. Theophilus watched her board ... ... wrong for the part” and to go home. She leaned her forehead against the bus window and watched the scenery go by until she reached the stop she wa... ...stood up from the swing set and collected her purse. She caught a return bus and went back to her apartment. Honestly, it was too quiet inside. Ann...
...t her little love could do. Putting her foot to the floor, she overtook a bus and to their surprise, they wound up kissing a gas tanker coming the o... ...anage a smile. Her arms are thicker than my body, you could hide a school bus behind her and I bet when she was alive, she had dirt floors in her ho... ...a cripple and they never did bring out a wheelchair for her, a bloody big bus, but no wheelchair. No, I wasn’t a sadistic kid; Barbie was mugged. Li...
...nt of him was an old rusty can and in this can were three silver coins, a bus ticket, a pensioner’s card and a used two-dollar scratch ticket; it wa... ...ins back in the can. “Will you give me this?” The wealthy man took out the bus ticket. 183 “If I give you my ticket, I won’t be able to get home, wil...
...no more, my dear.” I had the strength of mind to make a sign of assent and bus- ied myself arranging a couple of pillows at one end of the sofa. “Upon...
...is inclinations; but, slight as they were, they were not made without much bus- tling and running about. As Nicholas had husbanded his scanty stock of...