In the few
minutes' conversation which she had yet had with him, while Harriet had been partially insensible, he had spoken of her terror, her naivete, her fervour as she seized and clung to his arm, with a sensibility amused and delighted; and just at last, after Harriet's own account had been given, he had expressed his indignation at the abominable folly of Miss Bickerton in the warmest terms.
I'm to see her alone to-morrow evening for a few
minutes. She's at Larchmont now at her aunt's.
Working in his shirt sleeves, and with the thermometer at over a hundred, the phosphates soaked in through every pore of Jurgis' skin, and in five
minutes he had a headache, and in fifteen was almost dazed.
Two
minutes more passed while the doctor was putting on his boots, and two
minutes more while the doctor put on his coat and combed his hair.
Jerry of course came back to the stand, but in about ten
minutes one of the shopmen called him, so we drew up to the pavement.
I shall call up again in five
minutes." Then he hung up his receiver.
It warn't no towhead that you could float by in ten
minutes. It had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.
Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a
minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a
minute; and
minute by
minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
He said that he had not lived a bit as he had intended, and had wasted many, and many a
minute."
"Go, summon me," I roared, "go at once, this very
minute, this very second!
"And all to make two
minutes grow where one grew before?" Dede queried, at the same time laughing heartily at his affectation of mystery.
"Nurse," she commanded, "come here and show me his back this
minute!"