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She put the box behind her. With her other hand she felt for the door knob. "Amy, give it to me! What have I ever done to you?" "You stole my ring." In exactly the same tone she might have said, "You are a murderess." The ring! Mary had forgotten the ring. Wait, perhaps it was not hopeless even yet. Amy placed an absurd value on that ring and she, Mary, had the gem in her possession.
"Will you say," he had faltered to Mary Anne, "that it is Mr. Poppleton, to see Miss Bassett Miss Belinda Bassett?" And then he had been handed into the parlor, the door had been closed behind him, and he had found himself shut up entirely alone in the room with Miss Octavia Bassett herself.
West, beside himself with rage, swung on the little man and straddled forward a step or two threateningly. "You done said it," answered the old-timer, falling back. "An' don't you come closter. I'm liable to get scared, an' you'd ought not to forget I'm as big as you behind a six-shooter." "Here they come like a swarm o' bees!" yelled Barney.
"My friend here is a bit rough " "I'm no rougher than you!" retorted his companion. "We're willing to pay for the information," went on the first man. "It won't take but a minute " But Betty stayed to hear no more. She opened wide the throttle of her motor, and the Gem shot ahead, leaving the other craft far behind.
But as the two forces drew near, the actions of the opposing fleet became suddenly suspicious; all but one of them tacked ship, and stood off to the northeast, in a compact group in close order, under all possible sail, though one, the smallest and a brig, it was noticed, lagged behind the rest of the group in a way which bespoke either very slow sailing qualities or deliberate purpose of delay.
He had not understood that the two were identified once more; and identified, too, to a degree which had perhaps never before been reached. Even in medieval days there had been crises and even periods during which the secular power stood on one side and the sacred on another; as when Henry had faced St. Thomas, with the nation torn in factions behind the two champions.
'It wasn't me! Now the workman's demanding his right, the employer finds it to his advantage to disappear, and the impersonal joint stock company appears. Oh, this confounded sneaking out of a thing! Where is one to apply? There's no one to take the blame! But something shall be done now! If I hit the hand, I hit what stands behind it too; you must hit what you can see.
There is yet much behind. You may add to the catalogue Melton and Newmarket; and if to hunt without an appetite and to bet without an object will not sicken you, why, build a yacht! The Duke of St. James gave his first grand entertainment for the season. It was like the assembly of the immortals at the first levee of Jove.
He would invent an excuse, and make his way behind. Gaston and the manager were in the latter's rooms waiting for Victorine. Presently a messenger came, saying that Monsieur Belward would find Mademoiselle in her dressing-room.
'Their works and alms and all their good endeavour Stayed not behind, nor in the grave were trod.
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