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"Land!" he exclaimed in a low eager tone. "Whereaway, boy? Ay, so there is something there. What say you, Chingatok? Is it land?" The giant, who, during all this time, had calmly plied a pair of oars with strength equal almost to that of four men, looked over his shoulder without, however, relaxing his efforts. "No," he said, turning round again, "it is an ice-hill."
I have seen everything I want to see in London but that." "Because Gerty and I might walk across the Park with you, and show you the way." "I very much wish you would," said he, "if you have nothing better to do." "I will see if papa does not want me," said Miss White, calmly. She might just as well be walking in Regent's Park as in this small garden. Presently the three of them set out.
"The second letter was dated from Southampton," continued the old man in the corner calmly, "and, curiously enough, was the only letter which Kershaw professed to have received from Smethurst of which he had kept the envelope, and which was dated. It was quite brief," he added, referring once more to his piece of paper.
The way in which he fixed his eyes upon her gave great offense to Fred, and did it not alarm and shock Giselle? No! Giselle looked on calmly at the fun and talk around her, as unmoved as the stump of a tree, spoiling the game sometimes by her ignorance or her awkwardness, well satisfied that M. de Talbrun should leave her alone. Talking with him was very distasteful to her.
Duncan here, James." Patricia did not rise from her chair when her caller entered the library. Duncan moved toward her eagerly, but meeting her eyes, which she raised quite calmly to his as he crossed the floor, he paused, and remained at about midway of the distance. "Good evening, Patricia," he said. "I'm awfully glad to have found you at home.
Voices sounded outside, and then Lady Dudleigh saw that she was passing through a gateway. Thinking that this was Dudleigh Manor, she made no remark, but calmly awaited the time when she should reach the house. She did not have to wait long. Sooner than she expected the coach stopped. The driver got down and opened the door.
Are you too going to join in the hustle for wealth? Have you any commissions for us? You will forgive me if I ask you to come to the point quickly. Things are moving about here just now, and we have little time to ourselves. By the by, you know Littleson, I suppose? Your business with me is not so private that you object to his remaining?" "Certainly not," Vine answered calmly.
'Yes, yes! your mother! your mother! your mother! he cried, unable to let her out of his embrace; and then restraining himself as he saw her frightened eyes, in absolute fear of her spurning him, or struggling from him, 'My sweet! my child! Ah! do you not know me? Then, remembering how wild this was, he struggled to speak calmly: 'What are you called, my treasure?
He spoke through the ensuing greater darkness: "I heard that your dam wasn't holding very well." "Not very well," Farwell agreed, struggling with his temper. "Perhaps you heard that it was dynamited?" "I think I've heard most of the rumours," Dunne responded calmly. "I have no doubt of that," Farwell observed with meaning. "Great country for rumours," Casey went on.
"So I perceive," Lord Wellington answered calmly, and leisurely he closed his glass, so leisurely that O'Moy, in impatient fear of his chief, spurred forward and placed himself as a screen between him and the line of fire. Lord Wellington looked at him with a faint smile. He was about to speak when O'Moy pitched forward and rolled headlong from the saddle.
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