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"Who wants to keep him at arm's length? I only mentioned I did not feel called upon to tell him any secrets." "And I only said he wouldn't care to hear your secrets if you have any." "I haven't," Deleah admitted, laughing. "I have, then. And I shall tell them to who I like, spite of Deda's pertness, mama." "Say to 'whom you like, Bessie." "Mama, will you speak to Deleah?
But, lazy or not, she becomes 'ramfeezled' with constant work, when he vows if 'the thowless jad winna mak it clink, to prose it, a terrible threat. For he must write, though it be but to keep despondency at arm's length. Yet it had become more than a pleasure and a recreation to him; and this he was beginning to understand.
Then on he came again, until at last, catching sight of us, he gave a cry of joy, and ran for us full speed with a note held out at arm's length. "You're a nice cove, too, John Cummings," said Harrison, reproachfully. "Didn't I tell you not to let a drop pass your lips until you had given your message to Sir Charles?" "I ought to be pole-axed, I ought," he cried in bitter repentance.
He stood alone, at the most upright post attainable, his book at arm's length, and his head moving from side to side, following the lines, with a little upward toss of it as he reached the end of each, while from his throat issued most startling tones.
For myself, and I saw the same in all my shipmates, the first sense of dismayed impotence in the face of those most damnable whirling flails very soon gave place to black fury. For the moment one thing only did I desire, and that was to be within arm's reach of the Frenchman, cutlass in hand. Had he been three times our number I doubt if one of them would have escaped if we had reached him.
He held her at arm's length, his hands upon her shoulders. "Do you suppose that fear of anything can make me surrender you now?" "Not fear, perhaps I know it could not be fear but good sense may do it. It was not fear that made me send you home early from your previous calls. It was discretion." "Oh!" he said, a new light dawning, and he marvelled again at her consummate artistry.
He held me off at arm's length, the old-time affection beaming from his handsome face. "What am I to say to you, Jack?" I answered. And my voice was all but gone, for the sight of him revived the memory of every separate debt of the legion I owed him. "How am I to piece words enough together to thank you for this supreme act of charity?"
I heard an exclamation of fear from Elaine. Kennedy had pushed his way past us and picked up the deadly infernal machine in his bare hands. I watched him, fascinated. As near as he dared, he approached the hole in the floor, still holding the thing off at arm's length. Would he never throw it? He was coolly holding it, allowing the fuse to burn down closer to the explosion point.
"A thousand thinks, Alma, but I love you. I love you and want so terribly for you to love me back." "I do." "Then tell me with kisses." Again she pressed him to arm's length. "Please, Leo. Not yet. Let me think. Just one day. Tomorrow." "No, no. Now." "Tomorrow." "When?" "Evening." "No, morning." "All right Leo tomorrow morning "
Bladensburg was designated as the place of meeting, rifles the weapons, the distance eight yards, the rifles to be held horizontally at arm's length down, to be cocked and triggers set, the words to be, "Gentlemen, are you ready?" Some delay was occasioned by the difficulty in procuring a suitable rifle for Mr. Graves. This was at length obviated, as will appear from the following note of Mr.
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