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"Take your time. Don't try to tell me all about it in one breath." She gulped a mouthful of fish and looked up with brimming eyes. "Oh, Eric, if you only understood what it meant. . . ." Her expression changed to blank fear. "You do believe he's still alive?" "I do." He bent down and fumbled for the wine with a needless clatter in the ice-pail.

"Thank you," said Pepper, politely as he knows how, and we went on our way leaving him to recover his composure as best he could. I looked back and noted that he fumbled his next shot. "If I thought as much as that of a mere golf ball I would never play the game," pouted Miss Dangerfield. "I think he is horrid, and I shall never speak to him again!"

The clockmaker fumbled with an anecdote, and tried to tell me of another sort of magnetism which had got into a watch. The watch would not keep time, nothing would make it; till by-and-by it occurred to him to suggest to the owner to wind it up at breakfast-time instead of at night.

The Squire fumbled nervously with the latch, all the time calling upon his daughter to open the door; then wrathfully placed his solid shoulder and knee in just the right place, and with a groan and wrench the latch gave way, and the solid oak door swung open, precipitating the anxious group somewhat suddenly into the room. Almost immediately they all became aware that there was no one there.

He had to have time for evaluation, to adjust to what they had learned during the steady stream of questions passed back and forth. And in that moment he was conscious of his hunger, just as his voice was paper dry from lack of drink. The canister of supplies he had left by the cave entrance ... "We need food and drink." He fumbled with his mask, but Karara motioned him back from the water.

With bated breath he heard Halloran enter the outer apartment. And he heard his impatient, muttered imprecations as he fumbled about for matches, seemingly without finding any. "This is where I put them," exclaimed Halloran, with an oath, "but they are not here now." After a moment's pause his voice broke the awful stillness, exclaiming: "Ah! here they are! I imagined they were not far away.

They fumbled with their bonnets, and stammered and spoke a word or two, then hesitated and beat about the bush, and let out by degrees that they wanted a letter written, to say something that might keep Gerard in Italy; and this letter they proposed to substitute in Hans Memling's wallet for the one he carried.

He wore an ample blue overcoat with long sleeves, buttoned all the way up, a lilac silk-handkerchief round his neck, brightly polished boots with tassels, and altogether resembled in appearance a well-to-do merchant. His hands were handsome, soft, and white; he often fumbled with the buttons of his coat as he talked.

But all I want is just a little to start me in a way of business, and I'll be sure to pay it back again if I get on and I have got a good connection, a capital connection your liberality I can never forget;" and Mrs. Peck fumbled with her purse, and looked very hard at Elsie.

He took it from the postman, who stood at the door amid a bevy of Tidgers who had followed him up the court, and slowly read the address. "'Mrs. Ann Pullen," he said, handing it over to his sister-in-law; "nice writing, too." Mrs. Pullen broke the envelope, and after a somewhat lengthy search for her pocket, fumbled therein for her spectacles.