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"Don't be so damned cocksure," rapped out his uncle, his exasperation showing in heightened color and snapping eyes. "It's that same cocksureness which has almost brought the British Empire to the very brink of dissolution." His nephew smiled tolerantly, and shifted his thickset figure to a more comfortable position. "Now, now," he cautioned.

The consciousness of her propinquity almost stifled him.... One fears that Maitland prolonged the counterfeit study of the combination unnecessarily. Notwithstanding this, she seemed amazed by the ease with which he solved it. "Wonderful!" she applauded, whispering, as the heavy door swung outward without a jar. "Hush!" he cautioned her.

To this end, the commander cautioned his troops to act towards the Moslems as towards "Jews and Italians," and to respect their muftis and imams as much as "rabbis and bishops." He also proclaimed to the Egyptians his determination, while overthrowing Mameluke tyranny, to respect the Moslem faith: "Have we not destroyed the Pope, who bade men wage war on Moslems?

"You speak of saints?" said Marinier, drawing near. "A few minutes ago I inquired whether you had a saint among you, and I expressed the hope that you might possess one. These were simply oratorical figures, for I know well enough that you have no saint. Had you one, he would immediately be cautioned by the police, or sent to China by the Church."

His own brief record of the conversation would have been: "The prisoner, after being duly cautioned, said he kept company with the deceased about three years ago, but quarreled with her on hearing that she was a married woman."

But his home, which he avoided as much as possible, had little share in his personal prosperity. Mary Hopkins's requests for new and decent gowns were more often refused than acceded to, and he constantly cautioned her to keep down expenses or she would drive them both to the poor-house.

How could you have made such a mistake?" "Mistake or no mistake, he has struck me, and he shall pay for it. The other can come later," growled the Russian, savagely. "Gentlemen, this is no place to fight. Let us have explanations " began Ugo, addressing Quentin more than Savage, but the latter interrupted: "Call off your dogs and we will talk it over," he said. "Dickey!" cautioned his friend.

We are cautioned againstrejoicing in our youth.” Aristo rejoiced in his without restraint; and he made his sister rejoice in hers, if enjoyment it was. He himself found in the pleasures he pointed out a banquet of fruits:—she dust and ashes.

Roy's bright idea went for naught, for the men still crashed on. They were lost sight of now behind a screen of bushes, but the boys were not going to give up the pursuit so easily. "Come on!" called Allen. "We'll have them in another minute! They can't get over the stone wall." "Stone wall?" echoed Henry. "Sush! It was another bluff, just as my threat was to shoot," cautioned Roy.

Grimm shortly, as, with a polite bow, Mr. Socrat went back to his room. Professor Grimm left his door open a little way, and the boys could see him quite plainly. They saw him take off the wrapper, and disclose a small white box. This he opened and, as he took the cover off, there dropped out something that gave a musical clang. "A bell!" exclaimed Jack in a whisper. "Hush!" cautioned Sam.