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Here we found the farmer's sons, armed, their horses at hand, gazing through a large telescope at the British camp, which could be plainly distinguished with the naked eye. Presently a small party of scouts left the camp and came in our direction, riding slowly, and eyeing every little rise or depression in the ground with the utmost distrust.
"I don't know," said Bob; "unless it's Edith back again." "I believe you're pretty fond of Edith," said his uncle, eyeing him: suspiciously; "seems to me you two were together a good deal last summer, come to think of it." "Well, isn't she a nice girl, Uncle Joe?"
Manuel sat down upon some paving blocks; the struggle had wiped out the memory of the blow he had received that afternoon; he felt brave and in a jesting mood, so, facing the curiosity-hunters that were watching the group, some laughing and others eyeing the urchins with pity, he addressed them. "The session is about to close," he said. "Now we shall begin the community singing lessons.
"There's naething wrang wi' me," he said with cool reserve. "What dae you think is wrang?" "Ay, it's a' right, Jock," she said, speaking as one who knew he understood her question better than he pretended. "I can see as far through a brick wall as you can see through a whinstone dyke." "Maybe a bit farther, Mag," he said with a forced laugh, eyeing her coolly. "But what are you driving at?"
'That's the weapon, said Fledgeby, eyeing it with the air of an acquaintance. 'He broke it over me. Oh I smart so! How did you come by it? 'When he ran down stairs and joined the lady he had left in the hall with his hat' Miss Jenny began. 'Oh! groaned Mr Fledgeby, writhing, 'she was holding his hat, was she? I might have known she was in it.
She looked at the precious thing if precious it was found herself in fact eyeing it as if, by her dim solicitation, to draw its secret from it rather than suffer the imposition of Maggie's knowledge.
Vaisampayana continued, "Hearing these words of the intelligent king, Yudhishthira the Just, the lotus-eyed Krishna said, eyeing Dhananjaya, the while, 'O king, I fully approve of all those powerful warriors whom ye have named for becoming the leaders of thy troops. All of them are competent to withstand thy foes.
I was trying to enter into Mac's festive humor, but I had not reacted yet from the horrors of the past few months. "Happiness!" I said scornfully. "Do you call this happiness?" He put up the blacking, and, coming to me, stood eyeing me in the mirror as I arranged my necktie. "Don't be bitter," he said. "Happiness was my word. The Good Man was good to you when he made you.
"Good enough!" whispered Reade, eyeing the bottle with cordial interest. Then he noiselessly approached the house, laying the brick on the grass under one of the front windows. "Now, Timmy, you slip around to the back of the house," whispered the young schemer. "Just as soon as you hear a crash you watch your swiftest chance to slip into the house and upstairs to bed. Understand?" "Sure!
Von Baumser, who was arrayed in a dress coat of antiquated shape, and very shiny about the joints, sat on the side of the bed, eyeing his companion's irreproachable get-up with envy and admiration. "It fits you beautiful," he said, alluding to the coat. "It came from Poole's," answered the major carelessly. "As for me," said Von Baumser, "I have never used mine in England at all.
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