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But Beasley was too slow, and, with an impatient exclamation, he snatched up the biggest of them and set it on the somewhat delicate scales with a heavy hand. "Say, you're rapid as a sick funeral," he cried. "I ain't got no time to waste. What I got here'll need that an' more. Ther'!" Beasley's temper was never easy, and his narrow eyes began to sparkle. "You're mighty fresh," he cried.
As soon as Guy could leave him, he went up to his wife. 'Amy, said he, rather sadly, 'we have had it out. It is too true. Her first exclamation surprised him: 'Then Charlie really is the cleverest person in the world. 'How? Had he any suspicion?
Van der Kemp and his man, after an exclamation or two, continued supper like men who were used to such interruptions, merely remarking that it was an earthquake. But Nigel, to whom it was not quite so familiar, stood up for a few seconds with a look of anxious uncertainty, as if undecided as to the path of duty and prudence in the circumstances. Moses relieved him.
"I'm not what I seem, exactly. You see, I " "Mushiful Evans!" The exclamation was half shrieked, half gasped out; and on the words the window was slammed to, the light within flipped out, and through the glass from within came a vehement warning. "Get away, you you lunatic! Get away from here now or I'll have the cops on you."
I was aroused from my reveries by an exclamation from Felworth, "There is Alice Vernon, I am positive! You see her walking on the road before us under the row of beech-trees. We will overtake her by the time she comes to the end of them, by the quarry on the right." He proved himself accurate; for we were only a few yards behind her, as she came into the bright sunshine.
When Charley, touched by the heavy scene, saw the figure of the Magdalene rise, he felt a curious thrill of fascination. When she turned, and he saw the face of Rosalie, the blood rushed to his face; then his heart seemed to stand still. Pain and shame travelled to the farthest recesses of his nature. Jo Portugais rose to his feet with a startled exclamation. Rosalie began to speak.
There was a stifled exclamation she thought from Tom then two strong arms closed around her, and she found herself crying into someone's vest pocket, but it wasn't Tom's. He had not yet attained the dignity of vests. Surprised, she hushed her sobs, though she still clung to the protecting arms, and in a moment she heard Tom say, "She will be all right now, sir. I will take her home."
Dan with difficulty repressed his exclamation of astonishment, and strained forward to make certain if this really were the man he took him to be. But turning neither to right nor left, the fellow plodded on, evidently in a labored way, and was almost instantly swallowed up in the shadows. The watcher drew a long breath. "Was it Lozcoski?" he muttered presently. "Why, how did the man get out?
He had hardly finished when Zelie made her appearance with some plates and a tablecloth, and began to lay the covers. Seeing the fire had gone out, the little servant uttered an exclamation of dismay. "Oh!" cried she, "so the wood didn't flare!" He gazed at her as if she were talking Hebrew, and it was at least a minute before he understood that by "flare" she meant kindle.
"Come this way, if you please," he replied, after a glance at her glossy dark-brown hair and shabby gloves. When she went in that day, Arthur uttered an exclamation. "Do you mean to say you've had your hair cut short?" he asked, speaking to her almost roughly. "Are you going to join the unsexed crew that shriek on platforms?"
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