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Hadley was about to say more, when suddenly the library door opened and Stafford entered, hat in hand. Addressing his friend and without so much as glancing at his wife, he said curtly: "Coming over to the club, Hadley? There's a poker game on to-night. I promised to take a hand." The two men went away together and that night Virginia sobbed herself to sleep.
But it's worth trying. Come on. He hurried back down the edge of the cliff for about thirty paces, then looked over again. 'Here it is. It's a goodish way down. But I've tackled places as bad in the North Island mountains. Will you risk it? 'I'd risk anything rather than Kemp, Ken answered curtly. 'Then I'll go first. Lie down on your face, and give me your hands. Quickly.
Oh, and I didn't mean you by that either." "It's nice to be nobody in that sense," he said. His next suggestion was that he get his car, start north up the shore with her, have dinner at one of the taverns along the road and deliver her in good season for a night's sleep in the cottage at Ravinia. But this suggestion was declined rather more curtly.
"Send for the expressman, and keep yourself out of the way for a moment," she said curtly. An attitude of weak admiration and foolish passion had taken the place of his former tremulous fear. He obeyed excitedly, but without a word. Mrs. Baker wiped her moist forehead and parched lips, and shook out her skirt.
With your grandfather to set you going right and post you up, you ought to make good." "I'd like to have a little light on one point," remarked the young man, curtly. He felt again the irritating prick of resentment. "What am I to be down to that legislature myself, or Thelismer Thornton's grandson?"
Yorke reined away sharply and glared. "Get over'" he said curtly, "don't crowd me!" He spoke as a Cossack hetman might to his sotnia, and, at his tone and attitude, something snapped within Redmond. To his already overflowing cup of resentment it was the last straw. His promise to Slavin he flung to the winds, and it was replaced with vindictive but cool purpose.
He laughed. "He just made a joke of it. But he is a mean skunk! I've found out since that he wanted to buy Preston out for the part Preston had taken in another affair. There's a pretty case coming on directly, with Jim for hero. You have heard of it." "No," said Buntingford curtly; "but in any case nothing would have induced me to have him here. Preston's a friend of mine.
"Ah," Gordon said curtly. The lines in his worn face deepened, his mouth was inscrutable. "If it hadn't been for that," she confided, "we could have got through. Everything had started fine. Alexander's father had left him the place: there isn't a better in the Bottom. Alexander says Mr. Cannon has always wanted it. Now ... now ..." her blue gaze blurred with slow tears.
Bill vouchsafed no reply, but, addressing himself to the driver, said curtly, as if giving an order for the delivery of goods, "Shove him out at Rawlings," and passed contemptuously around to the tail board of the sled, and returned to the harnessing of his relay. The moon came out and shone high as Yuba Bill once more took the reins in his hands.
I think I foresaw already what was coming. "I am Louis de Pavannes," he replied with impatience. I stared at him in silence: thinking thinking thinking. And then I said slowly, "You have a cousin of the same name?" "I have." "He fell prisoner to the Vicomte de Caylus at Moncontour?" "He did," he answered curtly. "But what of that, sir?" Again I did not answer at once. The murder was out.
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