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But more than one of them remembered disturbedly how they had gone in force two days before to fetch Gard off his lonely rock, or to make an end of him there; and here they were going in force on a very different errand an errand which, they could not help seeing, would bring him off his rock in a very different way, if this present matter was what it looked as if it might be.
Dusk was drawing on, and the bats were wheeling over the green basin called Welland Bottom by the time she arrived; and had any other errand instigated her call she would have postponed it till the morrow. Nobody responded to her knock, but she could hear footsteps going hither and thither upstairs, and dull noises as of articles moved from their places.
Evelyn's on that errand I was afraid you would shew them you were displeased." "And what then?" said he quietly. "Only that I wanted to spare them what always gives me a cold chill." "Gives you!" said Mr. Carleton. "No sir only by sympathy I thought my agency would be the gentlest."
Now, tell me what you've been looking sad about." Is it possible that she was forgetting? "Oh, perhaps you can help me!" "Help you! Of course I will." "How did you know I was troubled?" she asked seriously, looking up into his eyes. "Have I eyes?" he answered as seriously. "Father happened to think that mother had an errand for him to do on this road, so I jumped off and ran after you."
Barker declares that his master sent him out on an errand instantly on his return, and that when he came in he found him dying." "Did he not explain what the errand was?" "No; he refused to say." In that refusal Fetherston saw that the valet, whatever might be his fault, was loyal to his dead master and to Enid Orlebar.
There was a back entrance, screened from the plaza by a stone wall and a projection of the chapel, and Broussard thought there could not be a better place for the words he meant to speak to Anita. He seized his cap and ran out, ignoring the jeers of his comrades, who had seen Anita pass and suspected Broussard's errand.
And O, if he had only listened; but he had gone upon their errand he, a barrister, uninstructed even by the shadow of a solicitor upon an errand fit only for a private detective; and alas! and for the hundredth time the blood surged to his brow he had taken their money! 'No, said he, 'the thing is as plain as St Paul's. I shall be dishonoured! I have smashed my career for a five-pound note.
Katherine called the little girl, told her she was going out, and promised to bring her back some food. Then she sped on her way to some shops she had noticed on her way, and soon accomplished her errand. This necessity for action put her right with herself, and gave her the courage she needed.
Whatever the reason, Puritanic training or fear of my errand, I walked slowly back and forth in front of the dingy little office of the theatre for some time before I conquered my irresolution and went desperately into the place.
But you could never tell what he was coming for." Then with his own labor he would help his wife seek out the odds and ends that could be spared, and so armed, would return, arguing by the way as if an errand of mercy were the last thing he contemplated.
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