As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaister, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
Joe gave a pull at his necktie and a twitch at his jacket, and was off in a moment.
It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had.
I wish you could know him, Joe. He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano--he is a widower, you know--and stands there pulling his white goatee.
"I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those Astrakhan rug portieres.
'I don't know, and to say the truth, I don't care,' said Joe.
'Ay, I mind,' returned Joe. 'She'll need it, Heaven knows.'
When George Willard went to work for the Wines- burg Eagle he was besieged by Joe Welling.
Becoming more excited Joe Welling crowded the young reporter against the front of the feed store.
If Ferguson was the head and Kennedy the arm, Joe was to be the right hand of the expedition.
With such profound faith as Joe felt in the doctor, it is not to be wondered at that incessant discussions sprang up between him and Kennedy, without any lack of respect to the latter, however.
It was evident that the crowd favored
Joe with its sympathy.
Joe Rendal's office was in the heart of the financial district, situated about half-way up a building that, to Mary, reared amidst the less impressive architecture of her home-town, seemed to reach nearly to the sky.
This time Martin nodded, and
Joe lamented, "Wish I was."