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The girl reddened, but met Ruth's eyes determinedly. "I've got a book in here, that dad got with some other traps from ol' man Cullen's girls, back in Red Rock they thought we was poorly, an' they helped us that-a-way. It's 'Millie's Lovers, an' it tells how a man deceived a girl, an' run away an' left her the sneakin' coyote!" "Girls shouldn't read such books, Hagar." "Yes, they ought to.
'Outside, replied Riderhood, always beating it out, with his head determinedly set askew, and his eyes watchfully dividing their attention between his two auditors, 'outside the door of the Six Jolly Fellowships, towards a quarter after twelve o'clock at midnight but I will not in my conscience undertake to swear to so fine a matter as five minutes on the night when he picked up the body.
"I had set out to greet you before the estimable Mandarin who is now saluting his ancestors was so inopportune as to do so," replied the emissary. "Yet it is not to be denied that we offer an adequate protection among each other, while at the same time punishing guilt and administering a rigorous justice secretly." "Lead me to your meeting-place, then," said Weng determinedly.
There, not ten paces away his forage cap on the back of his head, his hulking shoulders more bent than ever, hands in his pockets and a scowl on his face stands, or rather slouches, Rix. He looks unkempt, dirty, determinedly ugly, and very much as though he had been in liquor most of the week, and was sober now only through adverse circumstances over which he had no control.
"I must speak with you, Lord Saxondale," cried Dorothy, clutching his arm and drawing him apart from the pale-faced group. Eagerly she whispered in his ear, stamping her foot in reply to his blank objections. In the end she grasped both his shoulders and looked up into his astonished eyes determinedly, holding him firmly until he nodded his head gravely.
That is what she did, and furthermore she left the room guiltily, muttering something about redding up the drawers. And then like a good mother she took up one of her son's books and read it most determinedly. It had become a touching incident to me, and I remember how we there and then agreed upon a compromise: she was to read the enticing thing just to convince herself of its inferiority.
The detective, however, was too quick for him, and placing the muzzle of his pistol against the burglar's cheek, he said, determinedly: "If you attempt to draw your pistol, I'll blow your brains out!" Duncan felt that it was useless to attempt to trifle with the resolute man before him, and his arms dropped to his side. "It's no use, Tod," said Manning, with a quiet smile.
"You feel the same way about Thursday evening prayer-meeting too, don't you? You can walk over with us if you want to. We're going now. Miss Evans and I have got a booth." Sid walked. Pearlie led them determinedly past the rows of gray suits and lavender and pink shirts on the benches in front of the hotel.
It was one of the hottest and longest days of the year, and one of the most desperate and determinedly resisted battles fought during the whole war.
The agent picked up the envelope with anticipations of helpful clues. It was her business to find out everything that she could about Mr. Queed. A determinedly moneyless, friendless, and vocationless young man could not daily stretch his limbs under her aunt's table and retain the Third Hall Back against more compensatory guests. But the letter proved a grievous disappointment to her.
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