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The seals, their round, dark heads bobbing above the water at a distance of perhaps three hundred yards from her port-quarter, gazed at the spectacle with childlike interest. They saw a group of men eying them from the deck of the swift monster. All at once from this group spurted two thin jets of flame.
"Damn the bird! Hold your tongues!" cried Gabriel Varney, reluctantly giving way, but still eying the bird with the scientific regret with which the illustrious Majendie might contemplate a dog which some brute of a master refused to disembowel for the good of the colics of mankind. The model seized on the cage, shut the door of the wires, and carried it off.
If they had done so, they might have seen him draw a good-sized bundle out from under the lilac-thicket in the back yard, and hurry down through the garden. A few minutes more and Dabney appeared on the fence of the old cross-road leading down to the shore. There he sat, eying one passer-by after another, till he suddenly sprang from his perch, exclaiming: "That's just the chap.
"Why don't you set down, Cephas, an' take off your boots?" Sarah ventured at length, timidly. "Folks are fools," grunted Cephas. "I dunno what you mean, Cephas." Cephas got the boot-jack out of the corner, sat down, and began jerking off the wet boots with sympathetic screws of his face. Sarah stood with a wooden spoon uplifted, eying him anxiously. Charlotte went into the pantry.
"You seem to have done mighty little thinking before you took a very serious step for a woman." He was uneasily eying the rigid, abstracted little figure a story up across the way. "Those things aren't a question of thinking," said she absently. "I never thought in my life don't think I could if I tried. But when the time came I I walked out." She came back to herself, laughed.
"To help a snoozer that was sittin' in bad luck." Faust had an odd habit of causing his fat sides to ripple like troubled water when he wished to convey the impression that he was amused; he never laughed, just the rib ripple. "What's funny?" Langdon asked, eying Jakey, with querulous disfavor.
Leading the cotillon last night has turned your head. Take my advice, however an old man's advice stick to your dancing. You understand that. Every man has his forte yours is the ballroom." Baldassare smiled complaisantly at this allusion to the swiftness of his heels. "Out of the ballroom," continued Trenta, eying him with quiet scorn, "I advise caution great caution.
"You know who I am and what I come up yere for?" demanded Pete, eying her malevolently. "Yes. I know you are the man who tried to steal in over the roof of our house, too. If you make my father any angrier with you than he is now, he will prosecute you all the more sharply when you are arrested." "You shut up!" growled Pete. "I ain't going to be arrested."
The air within the room was blue and reeking with the odor of stale tobacco-smoke, and the ash-receiver at his elbow was piled high with burnt offerings, one of which was now sending an evil-smelling streamer toward the ceiling. Pope rose at Adoree's entrance, eying her anxiously. "Is everything all right?" he cried. "Is what all right?" "The er Lorelei." "Oh yes! What are you doing here?"
"Well, I don't know about that, Miss Ellis," he answered with a doubtful air, eying her close as he spoke with eyes of evident admiration. "One might be happy anywhere, of course in suitable society; but if you'd lived as long among cocoanuts in Fiji as I have, I dare say the poetry of these calm palm-grove islands would be a little less real to you. "Cannibals!"
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