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He was walking a considerable distance in advance of them when he came to a dense thicket which was black as midnight, and so still that the falling of a leaf might have been heard. Tom Brown surveyed the thicket quietly for a few seconds, and observing the marks of some large animal on the ground, he beckoned to the Caffre who carried his spare double-barrelled gun.
The tall, slender lady rode nearer to the gate and looked haughtily in, while the little girl-rider cried out: "Tu y serais!" Then she beckoned the groom, who was waiting behind them, to come nearer and hand her a little wooden case with a round glass set in at the front a little photograph-apparatus.
She, however, came back to it again before I had time even humbly to draw near to my gracious lord, and beckoned to my child, and held a cake out of the window for her.
"Woit, please," she said again, and holding the bill down flat with one hand she turned and beckoned to some one at her left. A pace behind the panhandler, Judson Green watched. Now the big comedy scene was coming, just as it always came in the books.
He gave her back the book; and as he was about to speak, she beckoned to him to follow her into a little morning- room appropriated to herself, no boudoir of white and gold, with pictures by Watteau, but lined with large walnut-tree presses, that held the old heirloom linen, strewed with lavender, stores for the housekeeper, and medicines for the poor.
The thought crossed my mind that Cousin Elizabeth must have depended on observation rather than on experience for the impressions to which she referred. However she afforded me an opportunity for escape, which I embraced with alacrity. As I passed my mother, she beckoned to me. Elsa had left her, and she was alone for the moment.
It seemed to be a sort of storeroom, as nearly as he could make out. His guide pressed a secret panel and, stepping through an aperture, beckoned Locke to follow. Locke drew his automatic and went ahead in the inky blackness that lay beyond the panel. The next moment the very floor under his feet seemed to give way. He felt himself thrown down bodily into a sort of subcellar.
Renie assisted the old man to rise, and beckoned the men to lead the detective forward. "Now, father," she said, "look upon this man." The old smuggler looked the detective all over, and a change came over his face as he said: "Is that the man I denounced?" "Yes." "My friends, that is not the man who assailed me!"
At once the entire circle of men on the platform arose and beckoned me forward; and, with a Quaker inspiration not to be repeated, much less put on paper, I asked those men, bubbling over with the divine spirit of freedom for themselves, if they had thought whether the women of their households were today rejoicing in like manner?
He beckoned with his hand, calling out, "Louisa! The young man thanked her effusively, and rejoined a group carrying on an animated discussion in low tones. Razumov lost himself for a moment. A squeaky voice screamed, "Confession or no confession, you are a police spy!"
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