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"At last?" repeated that gentleman as he joined the group, or rather paused just beyond it, surveying Gerald with a critical glance which seemed to take in accurately at one swift sweep every least detail of her dress. "My watch stands at the minute, Miss Vernor." "And here come the horses," added Phebe.

They talked over the plays in detail. Tom was just beginning to feel sleepy when there came a knock on the door. "Come in," he called, for it was not yet the hour for lights to be out, and even a professor would find nothing out of the way. One of the school messengers entered. "Here's a note for you, Mr. Fairfield," he Said. "A special delivery letter." Tom read it quickly.

He wondered, as he studied each detail, how Miss Teetum could expect her boarders to be contented in such quarters. He saw at a glance how much more cosey and restful the room might be made with the addition of a few touches here and there; a colored print or two a plaster cast a bit of cheap stuff or some gay-colored cushions.

He remembered now each detail of the conversation he had so strangely overheard, and how imperative it was that he should, without delay, reveal the plot that threatened the ship.

Western proudly. "Nor wilfully from him. But you had kept from him a detail of your past life, of your life not long since past, which, as you yourself felt, ought to have been made known to him." "It would have been made known to him." "Just so. But unfortunately he was first allowed to hear it from another quarter. How it was told from thence you and I do not know."

I have not space to describe in detail the many accessories which went to form the complete sword for the strong man armed in old Japan, or the elaborate and artistic ornamentation of every detail. In many of the small pieces of metal work which adorned the swords gold, silver, platina, copper, iron, steel, zinc, besides numerous alloys were used.

"Richard," she called softly to her husband sitting in the adjoining room, in the chair that Malachi, in accordance with the old custom, had with his sweeping bow made ready for him. The inventor had been there since tea was over, lying back in his seat, his head resting on his hand. He had had one of his thoughtful days, worrying over some detail of his machine, still incomplete.

The young general's military genius was as strong in minute detail as in general scope. His command was well directed. Enlisted under him were a daring company of Osage scouts, led by Hard Rope and Little Beaver, two of the best of this ever loyal tribe.

The recollections of the transaction are preserved in considerable detail. From the locality, it is quite certain that the bodies were brought to it from the southern end of Witch-hill. From a recently-discovered letter of Dr.

Such an outcome would be fairly unavoidable, inasmuch as these Intellectuals, however much they are, in the spirit, citizens of the cosmopolitan republic of knowledge and intelligence, they are after all, in propria persona, immediately and unremittingly subjects of the German-dynastic State; so that all their detail thinking on the aims, ways and means of life, in all its civil and political bearings, is unavoidably shaped by the unremitting discipline of their workday experience under this dynastic scheme.