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All was now a phrensy. 'The White Whale the White Whale! was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
"Daphne must always have her way," Madeleine went on, smiling. "I wonder what she'll do when she marries." Mrs. Phillips looked up quickly. "I hope it'll be the right man, Mrs. Verrier. Of course, with anyone so so clever and so used to managing everything for herself one would be a little anxious." Mrs. Verrier's expression changed.
During the whole of those anxious days and nights, Brigadier-general Brown remained at the Central Department, ordering the movements of the military in carefully considered combinations with the police force, and throughout the struggle, and until its close, commanded the admiration and gratitude of the Police Department and all who witnessed his firm intelligence and soldierly conduct.
The simplest course was to make inquiry of the beauty of the Mercato Vecchio, and I confess that unsatisfied curiosity as to the lady herself counselled it as well. Perhaps I had done her injustice, and she was as immortally fresh and fair as be conceived her. I was, at any rate, anxious to behold once more the ripe enchantress who had made twenty years pass as a twelvemonth.
Her father and mother kept it before her, but she said that they were both so old, had lived so long, and had had their day, that she felt something must be done to secure her own turn, and that speedily. Therefore she gave them both some poison. There was a funeral. She took over the shop. Another woman was anxious to poison her husband because he was about to take a second wife.
Within the last three days Jack had seen scores of men hurried into eternity, and his senses had become hardened by constant association with bloodshed and violent death, yet the sight of those unmistakable lines on that one familiar face turned his heart to stone. "You're some relative, I believe. He seemed very anxious to see you, so I sent the orderly. What?
Jadwin had lost some money that morning. She was desperately anxious to find Landry, and to learn the truth of what had happened, and for a long moment after the last visitors had disappeared she remained at the foot of the gallery stairway, hoping that he would come for her. But she saw nothing of him, and soon remembered she had told him to come for her, only in case he was able to get away.
King George, as well as all his people, were most anxious to build us a new habitation entirely themselves. They requested us to give them the dimensions of the various dwellings, and said we should have no further trouble about them. A party accordingly proceeded to the bush to collect materials.
Before leaving the house he turned to make a last appeal to his wife, who, he could not help seeing, was anxious to have him go. "'Won't you own me, Mary? he asked. 'It isn't my fault that I am so big. "'Own you! exclaimed his wife. 'I wouldn't own you for a mint of money. You'd eat me out of house and home in less than a week. "'I don't know but I should, said Mr. Tubbs mournfully.
"This can't be a hospital?" "Oh, no. It's the house of some very kind, good friends. You don't know them," she added quickly, seeing him knit a perplexed brow. "You stumbled into their garden and fainted. And they're very anxious for you to get well and strong." "Who are they?" asked Paul. "Colonel and Miss Winwood.
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