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I will pay the extra mileage, naturally." "How far did you wish to go, sir?" the guard enquired. "To Yarmouth," Mr. Dunster replied firmly. "If there are bridges down, and communication with Harwich is blocked, Yarmouth would suit me better than anywhere." The guard shook his head. "I couldn't go on that way, sir, without instructions." "Is there a telegraph office at this station?" Mr.
"He is happy anywhere," said the mother, with a stifled sigh. Wyvis uttered a short, harsh laugh. "That can't be said of us, can it?" he exclaimed, putting his hand on his mother's knee in a rough sort of caress. "We are generally in the shadow while Cuthbert is in the sunshine, eh? The influence of this old place makes me poetical, you see." "You need not be in the shadow," said Mrs. Brand.
When she spoke, she always said something one of the first things noticed by Mildred, who, being too lazy to think except as her naturally good mind insisted on exercising itself, usually talked simply to kill time and without any idea of getting anywhere. But while Cyrilla without in the least intending it roused her to a painful sense of her own limitations, she did not discourage her.
"Can you not imagine another kind of life? where you spent yourself equally for those whom you loved and who loved you, but in happier circumstances? a life where two congenial souls met and worked together? Could you not be happy almost anywhere with the one the man you loved?" Sydney's voice had sunk low, but his eyes expressed more passion than his voice, which was kept sedulously steady.
As soon as I reached the fire-place, I snatched out the red-hot poker, and, brandishing it over my head, made for the door. I never stopped running and whirling my poker until I was reeking with perspiration, and the poker was quite cold. Then I looked back, and found that I was alone. It was very dark; every house was shut up, and not a light to be seen anywhere.
Safest for him, after all, was to lay fast hold of the particularly unimportant person he was, both there and anywhere else. The Countess of Ormont's manner toward him was to be read as a standing index of the course he should follow; and he thanked her. He could not quite so sincerely thank her aunt.
"Come now, William John, don't be so cross. I thought you'd rather have me home, but I'll go, if you want me to." "Honest, now?" "Yes, honest. I'll go anywhere to please you. I must be off to the store now. Goodbye." Thus committed, Bertie took his courage in both hands and went. The next evening at dusk found him standing at Doctor Forbes's door with a very violently beating heart.
Tell them that they're all wrong in their treatment of me." "I think I could undertake to do that" Peter was convinced that a less antagonistic attitude on the part of her relatives would be more successful "and I will." Beulah's eyes filled with tears. "You're the only one who comes anywhere near knowing," she said, "or who ever will, I guess.
Yet still you could not discern a rack of cloud anywhere in the sky still, for a minute or two.... Then, before you knew how it had happened, the snow-summits of Monte Sfiorito were completely lapped in cloud.
Let's go back and have a drink." When they had entered the bungalow a silence fell over the settlement. I did not see a man anywhere. But I drew a long breath of relief because Sylvia was for a little while safe, even while I raged at the realization of her danger. My body was cramped, and cautiously I stretched my legs. Smilax had not moved. "It looks like we got here just in time," I whispered.
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