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"Well, sir; see the false ports, and the white eyebrows?" asked Sharpe, ironically. "I see this is the best glass I ever looked through," said Dodd doggedly, without interrupting his inspection. "I think he is a Malay pirate," said Mr. Grey. Sharpe took him up very quickly, and, indeed, angrily: "Nonsense! And if he is, he won't venture on a craft of this size."
Many of the travellers who had already attained the summit were flinging away their outfits and turning back in panic, terrified by stories which they had heard of winter and starvation in the Klondike; those who still trudged doggedly forward were too selfishly preoccupied with visions of gold, and their own concerns, and fears lest the rivers and lakes should close up, to render him aid.
Not so the others, the fellows who sat there doggedly on Mme Bron's battered straw-bottomed chairs under the great glazed lantern, where the heat was enough to roast you and there was an unpleasant odor. What a lot of men it must have held!
Tears of angry disappointment were close to the surface. He replied, doggedly: "If you have to buy your friendships, Katie, you'd better keep your money." The speech stung her. She glared at him across the narrow table, and, in the moment, each had a sense of unreality. The quarrel was like a bolt from the blue, as startling and unexpected as most quarrels are the bitterest and most lasting.
He tried to form the bitter, galling words; but a vision of that lovely face suddenly transformed with horror and disgust throttled the name in his throat. "I am Bulan," he said, at last, quietly. "Bulan," repeated the girl. "Bulan. Why that is a native name. You are either an Englishman or an American. What is your true name?" "My name is Bulan," he insisted doggedly.
He could not, of course, answer those questions; nor, he was doggedly conscious, would he have answered them if he could and there was no middle course. Death, within the next few moments, stared him in the face; and it seemed curiously irrelevant that, in a sort of unnatural calmness, he should be attempting to analyse his feelings and emotions concerning it.
'May I sit down? he asked, abruptly. 'I've got something to say, and I can't say it when I'm looking at you. He sat down, and fastened his gaze on a yacht that swayed at anchor against the cloudless sky. 'Look here, he said. 'Will you marry me? He heard her turn quickly, and felt her eyes upon him. He went on doggedly. 'I know, he said, 'we only met yesterday. You probably think I'm mad.
"Molly!" he said sharply, and as she looked at him over Blossom's prostrate head, he met a light of anger that seemed, while it lasted, to illumine her features. "Blossom and I were married nearly two years ago," he said. "Nearly two years ago?" she repeated. "Why have we never known it?" "I had to think of my mother," he replied almost doggedly.
"What's got into the old chap," said Ben to himself, pushing on doggedly with the air of a man who has thoughts of his own to think out. "I declare, if I should know Pickering Dodge lately; I can't tell where to find him." And with no light on his puzzle, Ben turned into the stone gateway, and strode up to the east porch to let himself in as usual, with his latch key.
"Only," said the house-agent, in desperation, "what about the birds?" "I beg your pardon," said Rupert, in a general blank. "What about the birds?" said the house-agent doggedly. Basil, who had remained throughout the proceedings in a state of Napoleonic calm, which might be more accurately described as a state of Napoleonic stupidity, suddenly lifted his leonine head.
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