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Telling Dick to remain in the taxi, I got out and rang the bell. The door was opened by a maid I had not seen before, and when I inquired for Miss Challoner she stared at me blankly indeed, as I thought, suspiciously. "Nobody of that name lives here," she said curtly. Quickly I glanced up at the number on the door. No, I had not mistaken the house.
The excitement of the danger was over now, and he had at once recovered his usual philosophic equanimity. 'Quite dead, he said, in French, 'quite dead, are they? Then we can't be of any further use to them. But I suppose we must go down again at once to help recover the dead bodies! The guide gazed at him blankly with simple open-mouthed undisguised amazement.
"You carried that letter to Inspector Jules last night, Jen?" said the soldier, all his heart in his voice. Jen saw her father blanch, his mouth open blankly, and his lips refuse to utter the words on them. For the first time she comprehended some danger to him, to herself to Val! "Father, father," she said, " what is it?" Pierre shrugged his shoulders and rejoined: "Eh, the devil!
Berger Sven Persson sat on the sofa at the far end of the room, twiddling his thumbs, his hands clasped over his stomach, his big commanding face impassive. The pastor was done talking, and Halvor glanced over at Karin for advice; but she sat as if in a trance, staring blankly at the floor.
I've never seen you or your insolent tomfool bills. I know one of your cursed brutes tried to choke me " "Mad," said Northover, gazing blankly round; "all of them mad. I didn't know they travelled in quartettes." "Enough of this prevarication," said Rupert; "your crimes are discovered. A policeman is stationed at the corner of the court.
Evan Blount's interview with the venerable chief justice was not at all what he had imagined it would be. To begin with, he found it blankly impossible to take the attitude he had meant to take namely, that of a conscientious member of the bar, rigorously ignoring all the little cross-currents of human sympathy and the affections.
I've hurt you; I've made you cry! Was I was I all wrong? Don't, don't I'll go Oh, my darling one, God knows I wouldn't " He broke off blankly and stood half sorrowful, half joyous. He knew he had no right as yet to go to the comfort of the girl now sobbing beside him, but hope was not dead.
On the heels of this refusal to concede to Chandler one of his cherished schemes, the second message was sent to Congress. The watchful and exasperated Jacobins found abundant offense in its omissions. On the whole great subject of possible emancipation it was blankly silent.
It is true that I regarded her weekly visits as a species of infliction, but I did not think I ever showed it. "'It is strange, said I, 'that you did not recognize me at once, Miss Holroyd. Have I changed so greatly in five years? "'You wore a pointed French beard in Paris, she said 'a very downy one. And you never stayed to tea but twice, and then you only spoke once. "'Oh! said I, blankly.
Once inside, he gazed about him blankly. Nothing looked familiar; nothing was as he had expected to find it. There was the partition, with a door in it, to be sure, and there was the small room beyond the main one; but there was also another partition, and another door beyond this. There had been but two rooms in the Venture's "shanty," while here were three.
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