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The clouds yet hung thick and low, yielding a ghastly aspect to the dawn, somberness to the picture of breaking waves tipped by flying vapors of mist. I sat at the tiller, grasping one of her hands in mine, and staring anxiously about the broadening circle.
"I didn't know he had been transferred," said Frank. "I bet he won't be let to stay long. The Perkins family like him themselves." "Can they get him sent back?" asked Bill anxiously. "Sure," said Frank. "Colonel Perkins can get anybody sent where he wants them. If he was your orderly he would stay with you, of course, but he isn't; he is working as janitor." "What's an orderly?" asked Bill.
When she heard the footsteps approaching, she made an effort to raise herself, with a sort of instinctive desire to spare her aunt a sight of all her weakness. "You had better lie still, my dear Miss Elinor," said the doctor kindly, offering her a glass of some restorative. Miss Agnes entered the room and advanced anxiously to the sofa. "My poor child!" exclaimed Miss Wyllys.
"I am not going to-day," replied Arsinoe, defiantly, "and it is folly for you to walk a quarter of a mile with your swollen foot." "It would be wiser to take some care of it," observed the dealer, politely, and Antinous anxiously added: "If you increase your own suffering you will add to our self-reproach." "I must go," Selene repeated resolutely, "and you with me, sister."
In the depths of what hole could they have put it? Then, in a fit of affectionate remembrance for the past, he asked anxiously after Gagniere and Dubuche.
Rex lifted the lantern as he spoke and looked anxiously into the girl's face, but Norah said nothing. It seemed as if she could not realise the meaning of his words, but there was a dizzy feeling in her head as if a catherine-wheel were whirling round and round, and she felt suddenly weak and tired, so that she was obliged to sit down and lean against the wall.
Zim Smith was there, a rollicking devil-may-care fellow, and I believed he alone was the match for all of the Indians east of the Cascade Mountains. A careful guard was maintained, however, our horses kept near at hand, and we anxiously awaited results. Several days thus passed. The Smiths and Driskols seriously discussing the situation.
"My father!" said the Englishman, anxiously, and turning pale; "I think that position would relate to him." "It doth," said the astrologer, slowly. "Impossible! I heard from him to-day; he is well let me see the figures." The young man looked over the mystic hieroglyphics of the art, inscribed on a paper that was placed before the visionary, with deep and scrutinising attention.
Vandover himself appeared from time to time, inquiring anxiously as to the arrival of his "stuff," or sitting on a packing-case, his hands in his pockets, his hat pushed back, and a cigarette between his lips.
"Be quiet, Pelle," she whispered anxiously; "you'll venture too far." She would not let go of him, so he had to sit down again to avoid attracting attention. His cheeks were burning, and he was as breathless as though he had been running up a hill. It was the first time he had ventured on a public platform; excitement had sent him thither. The people began to get up and to mix together.
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