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He dismounted for an hour to allow his steed to rest itself, fed it with dates from his wallet, and gave it a drink of water at the stream. Then, when he felt that it had thoroughly recovered its strength and freshness, he remounted, and rode briskly on as before. He passed unchallenged, attracting no more notice than a person nowadays would do in walking along a crowded street.
Chichester looked down; without raising his eyes he presently said in a constrained voice: "If I were to give you one you might not accept it." "Probably not," said Stepton, briskly. "In my life I've been offered a great many explanations, and I'm bound to say I've accepted remarkably few." Chichester looked up quickly, and with the air of a man nettled.
The spring wind blowing in their faces was fresh and moist, a soft wind laden with the smell of earth. A clumsy hound came slouching around the corner of the little porch and, wagging his tail, stopped below them; the light shone down into his big, glistening eyes. Viola spoke to him softly. He wagged his tail more briskly.
He could now distinguish her light foot-fall now she was divided from him by a young acacia-shrub which hid her from his gaze-now she set down two water-jars on the ground now she briskly lifted the bucket and filled the vessel she held in her left hand now she looked towards the eastern horizon, where the dim light of dawn grew broader and brighter, and Lysias thought he recognized Irene and now Praised be the gods! he was sure; before him stood the younger and not the elder sister; the very maiden whom he sought.
But how had anyone gained admission? All the doors had been bolted on the inside. "Now, my friend," said Poirot briskly, "we will go. I should like to ask a few questions of the parlourmaid Dorcas, her name is, is it not?" We passed through Alfred Inglethorp's room, and Poirot delayed long enough to make a brief but fairly comprehensive examination of it.
When he caught the nurse's eye he ceased, and looked steadily at the distant ceiling. 'You're better? 'Yes. He tried to speak boldly, decisively, nonchalantly. He was filled with a sense of physical shame, the shame which bodily helplessness always experiences in the presence of arrogant, patronizing health. He would have got up and walked briskly away if he could.
More than once Mary felt her breath come faster, and when Aunt Cordelia invited him to stay to dinner and he chanced to look at her, she gave a barely perceptible signal "Yes," and smiled to herself at the warmth of his acceptance. "I'll telephone mother," he said, briskly rising. "Where's the phone, Mary? I forget the way." She arose to show him. "Let's waltz out," he laughed.
"And he's just as well out of the way," she added briskly, "till we've got this tangle straight" little dreaming that her nephew was responsible for the whole knotting of the tangled skein. By kindly probing she elicited the real, grim tragedy which lay behind all the gossip, and her anger against Eliot knew no bounds.
He was seated at the table, with his back to the fire, his arm lifted, and a hairpin between his finger and thumb the pivot round which his paper twist was spinning briskly.
Four-and-twenty guns from the nearest ships were playing upon them, answered briskly by the little militia batteries that lined the bay. Gunboats began to stand in, laden with red-coated marksmen discharging their new pattern fire-locks.
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