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"So far as I am concerned, you may smoke," she said after a while, having noticed that Frederick absent-mindedly started to light a cigarette several times and then, recollecting himself, desisted. "No," he said curtly, "I won't smoke now." "You might at least offer me a cigarette," she said. "I am bored." "That's proper," he said. "A patient should be bored." "Oh, I am not a patient."
There was something grand and terrifying in that white heat which burned in his eyes and drove the blood from his lips. Seymour Michael came forward with his pleasant smile, waving his hand in greeting to Jem and to Ruthine, whom he knew. Jem shook hands with him. "I'm all right, thanks," he said curtly, in answer to Seymour Michael's inquiry.
I poured half the contents into a cup and offered it to him. "No spirits," he said curtly. I swallowed eagerly the heady liquor, and felt a little more like myself. "You were complaining," I remarked, "of something like aphasia?" "I was," he replied. "You know what aphasia is in the human subject?
He blew the smoke under the candle shades and watched it as it darted upward. "Don't you find it comfortable? I should." "Conscience will not lie down at one's bidding." "I understood that you were a diplomat?" The Colonel turned to Fitzgerald. "I hope that, when you are liberated, you will forget the manner in which you were brought here." "I shall forget nothing," curtly. "The devil!
Barlasch pushed up the bandage which he still wore over his left eye, in order to get a better sight of this phenomenal ignoramus, but he made no comment. On landing he nodded curtly, at which the boatman made a quick gesture and spat. "You have not the price of a glass in your purse, perhaps," he suggested. Barlasch disappeared in the darkness without deigning a reply.
Fenshawe was too skilled in the varying contingencies of desert life not to admit the truth of the sheikh's reasoning, but he held to the belief that von Kerber had secret information as to the practicability of the route. "Be it so," he said curtly. "Let every preparation be made. We have no cause to fear these dogs of Hadendowas.
"Monsieur Deschars does things on a grand scale," replies Adolphe, taking refuge in a jest. "All men don't pay such attentions to their wives," says Caroline, curtly. "What attentions?" "Why, Adolphe, thinking of extra breadths and of a waist to make the dress good again, when it is no longer fit to be worn low in the neck." Adolphe says to himself, "Caroline wants a dress." Poor man!
It paid large dividends, and its stockholders were duly impressed with the magnificence of its buildings and the grandiose tone of its officials. Judge Hildreth frowned heavily as he read the name, and was about to deny himself to the visitor, but on second thought he curtly ordered the boy to show him in.
Masterton's brow again darkened. And his hymn of exultation had been mistaken by these people by this this wanton child! "It was no serenade," he replied, curtly; "it was in the praise of the Lord!" "Of how mooch?" "Of the Lord of Hosts of the Almighty in Heaven." He lifted his long arms reverently on high. "Oh!" she said, with a frightened look, slightly edging away from the wall.
I've had the devil of a time running you down, but here we are at last. And all's well that ends well." "You have business with me?" I asked curtly.
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