Every now and then he cast his eye upon her, but still doubtfully.

It was clear that he did not grasp the situation, and at length he appeared to her so absurd that she sprang up, and cried, "Come, Per, let's have a run!" Away they went, now running, now at a foot's pace.

His heavy sea-boots made a broad impression upon the sand, and the mark of her shoe looked so tiny by the side of it that they could not help turning round and laughing.

They jested and laughed as if they knew not that they were no longer children, and she made Per promise to give up chewing tobacco.
Away along the curving shore, with the salt breath of ocean fresh upon them, went these young hearts, rejoicing in their existence, while the sea danced in sparkling wavelets at their feet.
The _attache_ had just finished a letter to his brother; it was one of these wearisome business letters, enclosing some papers he had had to sign.

He never could make out where the proper place was for him to put his name on these tiresome, long-winded documents.