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"I am after a man called Walter Goddard. Do you know anything about him? His wife, Mrs. Mary Goddard, lives in this village." "Walter Goddard is at this moment in my house," said the squire calmly. "I know all about him. He lay in wait for me at this very spot last night and attacked me. My dog pulled him down."
Tristram jumped up and stretched himself, smiling amiably on the host and hostess, who returned his look with no very good will. Captain Salt, having made the proper deductions calmly, paid the reckoning, and they left the house. Outside the weather was still dirty, and a wind, which had gradually risen since the morning, blew in their faces charged with chilly moisture.
Burns has calmly and critically taken stock so to speak of his literary aptitudes and abilities, and recognised his fitness for a place in the ranks of Scotland's poets.
"There is no mistake," said the Keeper of the Gate, very calmly; "here is your name, the record of your title and your possessions in this place." "But how could such a house be prepared for me," cried the man, with a resentful tremor in his voice "for me, after my long and faithful service? Is this a suitable mansion for one so well known and devoted? Why is it so pitifully small and mean?
Cagliostro, apparently, was lest in deep thought and indifferent to the conversation without, directing quietly and calmly, in the mean time, a few questions to Wollner, and, as it seemed, listening only to his answers.
Iras laughed a shrill, short laugh, and her narrow, regularly formed face, which might have been called beautiful, had not the bridge of the straight delicate nose been too long and the chin too small, darkened slightly, as she exclaimed, "That is frank at least." "You ought to be accustomed to that from me," replied Dion calmly.
She trusted she should be enabled to speak freely and calmly. She prayed that she might; but her body was exhausted, so that she could not overcome to her satisfaction the agitation of her mind. It did not mend the matter that she was kept waiting very long; and when Mr Ruthven came out at his own door, it was with some difficulty that Annie rose to make respectful way for him.
Lydia waited a moment to recover, settled herself quietly in her chair, and replied, calmly, "I know what you tell me nothing more. And now, will you explain to me exactly what a prize-fighter is?" "He is simply what his name indicates. He is a man who fights for prizes." "So does the captain of a man-of-war. And yet society does not place them in the same class at least, I do not think so."
"If you insult my father, I'll strike you down!" exclaimed Frank Slade, starting up and assuming a threatening aspect. "I respect filial devotion, meet it where I will," calmly replied Mr. Hargrove, "I only wish it had a better foundation in this case. I only wish the father had merited "
With as little ceremony as though the bullet had lodged in himself, Lanyard tumbled back into the room, tripped, and fell sprawling; while to a tune of clattering boots two sergents de ville lumbered valiantly into the library and pulled up to discover Madame Omber standing calmly, safe and sound, beside her desk, and Lanyard picking himself up from the floor by the open window.
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