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"Well, you might knit, I should think," said her visitor, "it's dreadful for a girl as big as you are to sit all day idle; I had sore eyes once when I was a little girl how old are you?" she asked, abruptly. "Eleven last month," said Polly. "Well, I wasn't only nine when I knit a stocking; and I had sore eyes, too; you see I was a very little girl, and "
"I'll see you later, Patience," said Grace as they separated at the head of the stairs. Patience walked slowly down the hall to her room. The door stood slightly ajar and the room was in darkness, but the sound of a familiar voice caused Patience to halt abruptly. "I could see," said the voice of Elfreda Briggs, "that something worried you.
Only once, when he was speaking in her presence, she said abruptly, "The voice of him is like the voice of my boy that was took away. But he was smooth-faced, like a girl, and ye're a dark, wrinkled man. 'Sides, he died years agone, over the water." But the old lady grew thoughtful and silent from that day, and three weeks after she was carried up to her grave,
He turned abruptly round, and, seating himself at the table, wrote a note, which he pushed across to her. It acknowledged the receipt of Captain von Ehrhardt's letter, and expressed Miss Mayhew's feeling that there was nothing in it to change her wish that the acquaintance should cease.
Miss Oman slapped the papers down on the table and rose abruptly. "You had better read the papers and see if you can learn a little sense," she said severely as she turned to go. "Oh, and don't forget the finger!" she added eagerly. "That is really thrilling." "The finger?" I repeated. "Yes. They found a hand with one missing. The police think it is an important clue.
He had heard the conversation, and said abruptly, "Had there been on your side such an awkward leader as the erpatr, how could we have finished the maneuvers?" "Let the young warrior alone!" answered Nitager. "Is it not enough for thee that he has shown the iron claws, as was proper for a son of the pharaoh?" Tutmosis, noting the turn which the conversation had taken, asked Nitager,
I shrank involuntarily as if from a blow, and with her face full of distress she stopped abruptly. Summoning the whole strength of my manhood, I rallied sufficiently to say, in a voice that I knew was unnatural from the stress I was under: "I congratulate you. I trust you may be very happy." "I had hoped " she began. "I would be if I saw that you were happy."
In a narrow field he had organized his life perfectly, had developed his opportunities, had safeguarded his every move. The smiling inquiry in his face was answered by the old man saying abruptly: "Fabian's gone. He's deserted the ship." The young man had the wish to say in reply, "At last, eh!" but he avoided it. "Where has he gone?"
Their pursuers, originally half a dozen, diminished to five, then to four, and as the hours wore on Selim found that only two were in sight. But a new obstacle arose to his escape. He knew that the valley he was ascending was abruptly enclosed in the mountains, and escape would be difficult. Further to the east was a more practicable one, and he determined to attempt to reach it.
"Right up there." They emerged onto a shelf-like meadow that dropped abruptly into a narrow valley. Willow could see nothing but mountain after mountain in the distance no roads, no houses. An upright piano stood by itself in the meadow, the last point of local focus before her eyes leaped into the space beyond and below. "Wow!"
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