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They were both strong rather than fast swimmers, and, although Han frowned slightly as he watched them bob in and out of sight in the long, smooth swells, the others soon turned their attention to Wink's suggestion that they dive from the rock and race around the anchored boats and back again. Wink offered the others a ten-yard start.
Epanchin did not even see how to put it into words. Would the prince do or not? Was all this good or bad? Even the general, the paterfamilias, though astonished at first, suddenly declared that, "upon his honour, he really believed he had fancied something of the kind, after all. At first, it seemed a new idea, and then, somehow, it looked as familiar as possible." His wife frowned him down there.
The dog, a vivacious and amiable animal which for some inscrutable reason had bestowed his friendship on my unworthy self, rushed up the bank demonstratively and insinuated himself under my arm. She looked over her shoulder and her arched eyebrows frowned above her blanched face. It was almost a scowl. Then the expression changed. She looked unhappy.
Little by little, however, he came to himself again, dimly conscious that he trusted us perhaps the first strangers or even neighbours whom he had trusted in years. "Yes, sir, I know him," he said in a low voice. "Where is he?" "Below on our service." But it was Luther Kinnicut, the spy, whom we had come to interview, as well as to see Major Lockwood, and Boyd frowned thoughtfully.
The Countess frowned, and continued with emphasis, “I consider him one of the most agreeable and best informed young men I have ever met.” “Is he?” said Lady Alicia, absently. “I wonder, Alicia, you hadn’t noticed it,” her mother observed, severely; “you talked with him most of the afternoon.
Jinks, not heeding this interruption, "which resembles St. Michael that is, a hogshead." "Yes," laughed Ralph, "I understand how a Dutch saint " "Is fat; that is natural, sir. They dress him in six pair of pantaloons, which I have heretofore, I am ashamed to say, fabricated," Mr. Jinks frowned here, "then they hang around his neck a rope of sour krout " "No, no!" cried Ralph.
Did he, or did I only fancy it?" The uncertainty worried her and drove her out of all patience. The poor girl did not answer my questions, frowned, and was on the point of tears. "Hadn't we better go home?" I asked. "Well, I . . . I like this tobogganning," she said, flushing. "Shall we go down once more?"
Both vessels whirled swiftly up to the wind, with their heads towards the land; and as the huge black side of the three-decker, checkered with its triple batteries, frowned full upon her foe, it belched forth a flood of fire and smoke, accompanied by a bellowing roar that mocked the surly moanings of the sleeping ocean.
"You are like a child," she muttered, "spinning his top over a powder-magazine." Laurie frowned a little. "Too melodramatic," he murmured. "I tell you," she said fiercely, "you are acting like a fool! If you interfere with me you will be drawn into all sorts of trouble, perhaps into tragedy, perhaps even into disgrace."
I say, give me Asa San. Very, very love." Asako remaining without speech, the Japanese frowned at her. "Why so silence, little girl? Say, I love you, I love you like all foreign girls say. I am husband now. I never go away from this house until you kiss me. You understand?" Asako gasped. "Mr. Ito, it is very late. Please, come some other day. I must go to bed now." "Very good, very good.
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