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"Do you mean to tell me that you are deliberately bent on making yourself an object of horror to everybody who sees you?" "The one person whose opinion I care for," he replied, "will never see me." I understood him at last. That was the consideration which had reconciled him to it!
Barthelemy noted the different effect he had produced, and wrapping himself deliberately in his ample cloak, whose folds concealed his hands, he added: "Perhaps there is some one who does not approve this plan, let him state what he has against it. He can speak freely, I will listen."
Already he had lost sight of her position in the matter; and she drew a long, quiet breath, almost like a sigh. "Time enough after you marry," she said deliberately, and lighted a cigarette from a candle, recreating her knees the other way. He considered her, started to speak, checked himself, and swung around to the desk again. His pen hovered over the space to be filled in.
He says that Parrish only had the one automatic which he always kept in the same drawer in his dressing-room ..." Robin was silent for a moment. Very deliberately he filled his pipe, lit it, and drew until it burned comfortably. Then he said slowly: "This means that Hartley Parrish was murdered, Bruce, old man.
He deliberately took his knife and cut it away. He was desired to go below to the doctor. “No, sir,” was his reply; “I am not the fellow to go below for such a scratch as that.
Mabini thought that it was possible that the wording of the constitution might have been deliberately planned by members of the congress in favour of annexation to the United States, so that that country would be warned, would become more mistrustful, and would refuse to recognize Aguinaldo's government.
Fearless that was Mitchell, my spy in the employ of Tavistock, who was my principal rival in the business of confidential brokerage for the high financiers. "Yes," said I. "What does he say?" "There has been a great deal of heavy buying for a month past." Then my dread was well-founded Textiles were to be deliberately rocketed. "Who's been doing it?" I asked. "He found out only this afternoon.
"It is a terrible, hateful ending," said the little teller of the story, leaning forward on her folded arms; "and the worst is, it is true. I have noticed," added the child very deliberately, "that it is only the made-up stories that end nicely; the true ones all end so." As she spoke the boy's dark, heavy eyes rested on her face. "You have read it, have you not?" He nodded.
This man, very deliberately, mounted an elevation, and with great force, and with a characteristical freedom, pronounced an Address, which the prisoners listened to with profound silence, excepting the clapping of hands, and sometimes cheers, at the end of such sentences as warmed and overpowered their silence.
He moved to and fro before her, he helped himself; and her visit, as the moments passed, had more and more the effect of a signal communication that she had come, all responsibly and deliberately, as on the clear show of the clock-face of their situation, to make.
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