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You'll do no harm in that quarter!" "Harm?" she flashed out, half indignant. "Has it ever, in all of your knowledge of me, gone as far as that?" He could not lie to her; neither would he betray Dick. "Did such a possibility never occur to you?" he suggested, evading direct reply. But she was not to be thwarted. "I asked you a question, mon cher." "And that is my answer."
"What a surprise, Peter!" she said, as she took his hand. "How do you happen to be in the East?" "An errand boy," he replied. "Somebody had to come, so they chose me. Incidentally," he added, smiling down at her, "it is a part of my education." "We thought you were lost," said Howard Spence, significantly. "Oh, no," she answered lightly, evading his look.
Instead of that her glimmering eyes, with lights like the reflection of polished green stones, evading Andrés, sought and found the officer. Charles Abbott's legs were paralysed, he was held stationary, as though he were helpless in a dream. His heart pounded and burned, and a great strangling impulse shook him like a flag in the wind. "Andrés!" he cried, "Andrés, let her go, she is nothing!
They are secluded from all young persons of the other sex, who are not permitted to visit families where there are unmarried females. The consequence of this austerity is an extended system of intrigue, for the purpose of evading all this circumspection by which means they are full of cunning and deceit.
For eleven years the Americans persisted in their usual course, making iron, cutting pine timber and building ships, importing molasses and rum, evading the duties, and thus getting themselves into the category of smugglers. It was this precise condition of affairs which led to a still more stringent measure on the part of the home government.
There was Hannah and Hetty; and Hughie, too, though he stoutly denied it. Life on the Craig farm was no longer dull. Kenny, at a loose end, kept the farm in ferment, evading the work Garry had sent him, by a conscientious effort to assist others. He was glad he could paint if the mood seized him. Denied the opportunity he knew he would have fretted.
Both Houses had a full opportunity for discussing the merits of every word in the treaty, and the risk of national ruin was not to be encountered because they had not expended all their loquacity, having expected another opportunity. The tactic for evading the danger was credited to the ingenuity of Sir Simon Harcourt, the attorney-general.
Reports made by the guardia civil were not questioned, but were accepted without support even in cases of the killing of prisoners alleged to have attempted to escape, or of men evading arrest. This method of eliminating without trial citizens deemed to be undesirable was applied with especial frequency in the suppression of active brigandage, and latterly during the revolution against Spain.
'I did not insist on my private conscience; woe is me that I did not: I yielded to what was called the public conscience in that one case which has proved the affliction of my life, and which, perhaps, it was that wrecked the national peace. A more plenary answer there cannot be to those who suppose that Casuistry is evaded by evading books of Casuistry.
His master, he noticed, was thrillingly attentive whenever a sound came to their ears perhaps the cracking of a twig, a mysterious movement of brush, or the tread of a cloven hoof. And instinctively he came to know they were evading Man. He remembered vividly their escape from Cassidy and their quiet hiding for many days in the mass of sun-baked rocks which Jolly Roger had called the Stew-Kettle.
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