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"You're afraid to bet," sneered the tall boy. This statement angered Powell and he quickly dove into his pocket and pulled out the sum mentioned. "This is the time you lose, Flapp," he said quietly. Another student was made stakeholder and each boy passed over his money. By this time the race was well underway.
I am always mistrusting and being angered, and my senses of right and wrong get so confused, that it is like groping in a maze." Her eyes were full of tears, but she exclaimed, "Tell me, Joanna, was there ever anything between Camilla and Mr. Poynsett?" "Why bring that up again now?" "Why did it go off?" insisted Lenore. "Because Mrs.
Despite the angered protests of half a thousand mining men, the Easterner, with four of the shrewdest prospectors in the State, had traversed the entire mineral region of the reservation in the utmost security and assurance. Five hundred men had been forced to remain at the border, at the points of official guns.
He writes: "At the time when I was greatly angered by the action of the Bolognese agent, four of the Senators persuaded me to seek practice once more in Milan, wherefore I, having altered my plans, began to try to earn an honest living, for I reckoned that the Senate of Milan knew that I had rejected the offers from Bologna, since these offers were unjust in themselves, and put before me in unjust fashion.
In his autobiography Senator Hoar affirms that William B. Allison came nearer being the nominee of the party than any other man in its history who was a candidate and failed to secure the endorsement. According to Senator Hoar, it was the opposition of Senator Depew, angered by the agrarian hostility toward himself, that prevented Senator Allison's nomination.
The girl's rashness angered me, but I admired her pluck and courage. I had never loved her so much as I loved her that instant never so fully realized what the barrenness of my life would be without her. And she was Griffith Hawke's! "Flora " I began. She seemed to divine my feelings, and of a sudden she shrank a little from me. "Hush!" she said. "I have been foolish and impulsive, Denzil.
And the old man would smile again and sniff his Spanish snuff. The peasants liked him; he was, in their words, a kind master, not easily angered. Only they, too, repeated that he was a worn-out steed.
"You let go, I'm not going to run." Detective Spotson, like Keekie Joe, trusted nobody. But since he had no intention of arresting Pee-wee and since the diminutive captive seemed rather angered than frightened, he released his hold. By a series of wriggles and contortions, Pee-wee adjusted his clothing and settled his neck in his stretched neckband.
Lucy's color returned and her smile, but Bostil noted that, while she was serving them and brightly responsive to compliments, she gave more than one steady glance at Slone. She was deep, thought Bostil, and it angered him a little that she showed interest in what concerned this strange rider. Then they had dinner, with twelve at table.
He had decided to leave the Springs within a day or two, cutting short his proposed stay of a month almost at its beginning. The advent of Roberta Grand, heretofore an unknown quantity, brought with it new and unpleasant complications. Her revelations disturbed him, her attitude angered and disgusted him. It was from this girl, so amazingly like her father, that he would have fled in any event.
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