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The Magic worked!" he cried. "That is my first scientific discovery.". "What will Dr. Craven say?" broke out Mary. "He won't say anything," Colin answered, "because he will not be told. This is to be the biggest secret of all. No one is to know anything about it until I have grown so strong that I can walk and run like any other boy.
Toomey, pinched with worry and malnutrition, a look of craven cowardice in her blue eyes, blurting out in the candor of desperation, "Your friendship might hurt us in our business!" She saw it all figures and episodes passed in review before her, even to irrelevant details, and each contributed its weight to turn the scales in this crisis.
Where was the key buried?" he exclaimed as if he were suddenly very much interested. "It it was the garden Mr. Craven hates," said Mary nervously. "He locked the door. No one no one knew where he buried the key." "What sort of a garden is it?" Colin persisted eagerly. "No one has been allowed to go into it for ten years," was Mary's careful answer. But it was too late to be careful.
'I have no idea that I am a drunkard, if that's what you mean, he answered, white with rage; and then he burst into a torrent of abuse such language as she had never heard from mortal lips until that hour, and his wife fled, shuddering and terror-stricken, from the room. When next they met he cowed before her with a craven air, and made no allusion to this scene.
'Except, I believe, the Enterprise, which is a sister vessel. By heaven! it's a fair match, continued Cain, his feelings of combativeness returning for a moment; 'and it will look like a craven to refuse the fight: but fear not, Francisco I have promised you, and I shall keep my word. Cain went on deck, and surveyed the vessel through the glass.
Carfax also had had probably, at the bottom of his dirty, ignoble soul, more honest affection for Craven than for any one in the world. He had tried to behave himself in that ingenuous youth's company. Now young Craven, disturbed, unhappy, anxious, stood in Olva's door. "I say, Dune, I hope I'm not disturbing you?" "Not a bit." "It's a rotten time to come." Craven came in and sat down.
Katharine flushed with a hot anger. 'Ye are a very craven lord, she said. 'If you may find them guilty, you shall have my head. But if you do find them innocent and shield them not, I swear I will strive to have thine. Anger made her blue eyes dilate. 'Have you no bowels of compassion for the right?
He felt, craven as he was, so much fear of his wife that he did not turn to see the men enter, and he was taken by surprise when a voice at his elbow a voice he did not know answered, "Five crowns, my friend? For what, may I ask?" "For what? For the Girondin!" he answered rapidly. Then at last he did turn and found that half a dozen men had entered, that more were entering.
In the Gibney veins there flowed not a drop of craven blood, but the hideous prospect before him was almost more than the brave commodore could bear. Death, quick and bloody, had no terrors for him, but a finish like this a slow finish thirst, starvation, heat He gulped and thoughtfully rubbed the knuckles of his right hand where the skin was barked off.
His once dark, heavy locks had begun to look as if they sprang healthily from his forehead and were soft and warm with life. His lips were fuller and of a normal color. In fact as an imitation of a boy who was a confirmed invalid he was a disgraceful sight. Dr. Craven held his chin in his hand and thought him over. "I am sorry to hear that you do not eat anything," he said. "That will not do.
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