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"Please, sir," she smiled up at him like a beseeching angel, "what did you do that kept us all talking and speculating about you for a whole week, though we didn't know your name?" "I sat right on my job as station-agent at Manzanita and made up lists of the killed and injured," answered Banneker dryly. "Station-agent!"
"It looks like it," said Hartley, dryly. "He hasn't been well these last few days," went on Atkins, quickly, "said he felt the weather, and he certainly seems ill. I don't believe the poor devil sleeps at all. Whenever I wake, I can see his light in the passage." "That is bad," Hartley's voice grew sympathetic. "Has he been long like this?"
But his companion showed no sharpness. "Well, I guess there won't be any trouble about that. And what does my daughter say?" "I haven't spoken to her yet." "Haven't spoken to the person most interested?" "I thought it more orthodox to break ground with you first." "Well, when I was after Mrs. Dosson I guess I spoke to her quick enough," Francie's father just a little dryly stated.
A long and grave pause succeeded, during which no movement of a limb, nor any expression of an eye, betrayed the impression produced by his remark. Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had recourse to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas. At length the same warrior who had before addressed him replied, by dryly demanding, in the language of the Canadas
"You will both of you do well to hold your tongues," remarked Claiborne dryly. "One of these officers understands French, and I assure you they can not be bought or frightened. If you try to bolt, they will certainly shoot you.
"Not such a bad boss," remarked Langholm, dryly; and the words set him thinking a moment on his own account. "And what happened to you?" he added, abandoning reflection by an effort. "I stayed on." "Forgiven?" "If you like to put it that way." "And you both filed the secret for future use!" "Don't talk through your neck, mister," said Abel, huffily. "What are you drivin' at?"
I told Robert I was glad to see him, and he answered me with ease and civility. "I expected you yesterday," said Michael Arout, rather dryly. "Forgive me, father," replied the young workman, "but I had business at St. Germains. I was not able to come back till it was very late, and then the master kept me." The joiner looked at his son sideways, and then took up his hammer again.
He say he want to drink blood! declared one man to another, evidently for us to hear, as we mounted our horses. "'Drink whiskey! replied the other, dryly, and there was a laugh of derision. "I rode home with Halloway. "I shall never forget his serenity.
"Have I?" he answers, dryly; "perhaps for some things; for others, I fancy that mine is a good deal longer than yours." "It might easily be that," I answer, recovering from my temporary annoyance and laughing; "I suppose you mean for books and dates, and things of that kind. Well, you may easily beat me there.
At that time I struggled the more and with the firmer determination, because I had always entertained an erroneous impression with regard to my own birth, an impression which, had it continued, would have prevented my dreaming it possible that Lady Laura could ever be mine " "It is a pity that it did not continue," said the Duke, dryly; but Wilton took no notice, and went on.
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