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But the animal refused to go and despite the man's utmost efforts, backed farther and farther into the brush. "Just shove on them bridle reins a little," observed the Texan dryly. "I think he's swallerin' the bit. What you got him all yanked in for? D'you think the head-stall won't hold the bit in? Or ain't his mouth cut back far enough to suit you?
In an instant he was on his feet in the middle of the room, applying force to his sleep-cogged wits. He threw open the sash. "Who's there? What is it?" Henry Ocock's groom. "I was to fetch you out to our place at once, governor." "But Is Mrs. Henry taken ill?" "Not as I know of," said the man dryly. "But her and the boss had a bit of a tiff on the way home, and Madam's excited-like."
"Maybe so," replied Jack, dryly, "but it won't be a German fleet that makes us pay." "Enough of this!" broke in the second German officer. "Lieutenant Stein, you forget yourself, sir. And as for you, sir," turning to Jack, "you show no better taste." "I beg your Pardon," said Jack. "I wouldn't have said anything if he hadn't egged me on." Lieutenant Stein was equally repentant.
As soon as one of them accused the other of having killed this man, there came a frightful shock. He declared that tepid water made him feel sick, and that he wanted it fresh. "I was unable to procure any ice," Therese answered dryly. "Very well, I will deprive myself of drinking," retorted Laurent. "This water is excellent," said she. "It is warm, and has a muddy taste," he answered.
Why, I believe Rangely's actually going home with her." "He asked her to drop him at the Inn," said Mrs. Fronde. "He's head over heels in love already." "It would be such a relief to dear Rose," sighed Mrs. Pomfret. "I like the girl," replied Mrs. Fronde, dryly. "She has individuality, and knows her own mind. Whoever she marries will have something to him." "I devoutly hope so!" said Mrs. Pomfret.
But for one thing" the petulance of Thirteen's habitual expression was lightened by a flash of self-gratulation, and his voice shook a little with excitement "I might not have received the summons before morning." "And that one thing?" "Success, comrades! At last after months of experimentation I have been successful!" "'Ow?" dryly demanded the man in the checked suit.
"Well?" he suggested, holding it from his lips till she had spoken. "I can think of nothing you care for sufficiently to wish you." "Nothing?" "Unless," with sudden mischief, "I wish you a comfortable bed all the year round and pleasant dreams, Louis." "That is much," he answered dryly as he drew a cloud of smoke. The doctor became anticipative.
And he could have given them no greater punishment, for he took them from the firing line, and sent them back to wait among the reserves until the morning. "Nom de Dieu!" said Maisonville, wrathfully, as he watched them go, "they should hang." "The stuff that brought them here through ice and flood is apt to boil over, Captain," remarked the Colonel, dryly.
The old man heard from afar the younger man's footstep, which fell on the earth with a firmer and more decided tread than that of the softly-stepping priests of Serapis, and he greeted him warmly with signs and words. Publius thanked him coolly and gravely, and said, dryly enough and with incisive brevity: "My time is limited.
"I had some business. It can wait. I'll be back. So long." The stranger turned and left them. From the kitchen window they watched him mount his horse and ford the creek and ride away westward. "I don't like that man," declared Miss Dale, and caught her lower lip between her white teeth. "I wonder what he wanted?" "You'll find out when he comes back." Dryly. "I hope he never comes back.
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