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She was lying closest to the entrance, and had just finished Sunday morning inspection when the lookout hailed: "They're coming out!" Instantly all eyes were directed on the familiar harbor mouth, and they could hardly believe their eyes to see those magnificent ships standing out in broad daylight.
The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement, will naturally suffer most.
Thinking of Wallie in his "dude" clothes, his face pale and his eyes gleaming, swinging the frying-pan in his rage at the loss of his supper, when a more experienced man would have thrown up his hands promptly, Boise Bill slapped his leg and rocked in the saddle as he chuckled: "That's the closest queak I ever had; he might a trembled his gun off and killed me!"
So you see the toes of the town touch two foreign frontiers; and of all German cities it is the most westerly and, therefore, closest of all to the zone of action in the west of Europe. You would never guess it, however.
We shall strengthen ourselves to contemplate the fact that the countenances we love must change, and the ties that are closest to our hearts will break; and we shall feel that it ought to be, because it must be, because it is an inevitability in that grand and bounteous scheme in which stars rise and set, and life and death play into each other.
"I have a scenario," he triumphantly answered. "I worked it out this morning between two o'clock and four." She reached her hand to him impulsively, and as he took it a warm flush came into her face and her eyes were suffused with happy tears. "That's brave," she said. "I told them you could not be crushed. I knew you were of those who fight hardest when closest pressed.
This man made his mistake in placing a business in which there is a multitude of detail and a necessity for the closest possible scrutiny of every cent of expenditure a business which must be done upon the smallest possible margin in order to be successful in the hands of a man who could look only outward and forward and upward. The young man was, indeed, a splendid business getter.
I doubt whether she would have come to Paris with that express purpose, or whether the police would have listened to her if she had. "But who assisted her? Some one from whom she has no secrets. Were it not that such a woman is likely to have set up the closest relations with other miscreants in these past years, I should say that her agent and accomplice was Ledantec.
He wrote to the master of the parish to which the creature belonged, and endeavored to stifle the matter. Perceiving this, I concerned myself no more about it, but I was astonished that a man who could stoop so low should have been sufficiently master of himself to deceive me by his reserve in the closest familiarity.
Being looked upon as part of the appointments of the place, like the chandeliers or the mirrors or the electric bell that answers when spoken to but never talks back, he has, unconsciously to those he serves, become the custodian of their closest secrets. These he keeps to himself.
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