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His suspicions were too vague, his desire for success was too ardent, for him to lose sight of Prosper an instant. Closely following the cashier, he seated himself in a dark corner of the room, and, pretending to be sleepy, he fixed himself in a comfortable position for taking a nap, gaped until his jaw-bone seemed about to be dislocated, then closed his eyes, and kept perfectly quiet.
Their spirit was as high, their wit as keen, their laughter and their tears as contagious, as when their speech had whiled away the hours of a former century. Lonely I was not and could not be more, with this goodly companionship, however wide the gulf of years that gaped between me and my old life.
The wounds in her heart, because of his indifference, strange and unaccountable to her, gaped in those blue orbs. A tremendous revulsion of feeling took possession of him; what he had been subduing for weeks gained supremacy in an instant. He half rose to his feet as if to rush over and crush her in his arms, but a mightier power than his emotion held him back.
His mind was filled with strictly professional considerations. He was not talking to her as a person. She was purely a source of information. "So I'm told," said Maril reservedly. "Are there any more humiliating questions you want to ask?" He gaped at her. Then he said ruefully; "I'm stupid, Maril, but you're touchy. There's nothing personal." "There is to me!" she said fiercely.
Forsyth admitted to bail, this was one course, an easy course, a safe course; but not, the more he reflected on it, not a pleasant one. For, was it not to publish abroad a number of singular facts about himself? A child ought to have seen through the story of these adventurers, and he had gaped and swallowed it.
Yeux-gris stared at him, neither in fear nor in fury, but in utter stupefaction. "But Gervais? He plotted with you? But he hates you!" We gaped at Lucas like yokels at a conjurer. He made us no answer but looked from one to the other of us with the alertness of an angry viper. We were two, but without swords. I knew he was thinking how easiest to end us both. M. le Comte cried: "You!
But being bound in honor to tell the whole moral or no moral, I must add, that while Sharley walked and thought among her hickories there came up a thunder-storm. It fell upon her without any warning. The sky had been clear when she looked at it last. It gaped at her now out of the throats of purple-black clouds. Thunders crashed over and about her. All the forest darkened and reeled.
Takers of the offer not appearing on the shore, he shook the purse at his competitors. "If we are not Christians," he said to them, "we are oarsmen and not afraid. See I stake this purse if you win, it is yours." They only gaped at him.
Goodwin," he said, "I went in when that which comes from it went out!" I gaped at him, stricken dumb; into Larry's bellicose attitude crept a suggestion of grudging respect; Olaf, trembling, watched silently. "Dr.
The yokel who had gaped at me, had been cheated by his companion, and was accordingly resentful. Two men more at odds in outward appearance could not easily have been found. The gaper was plain country, a big, bulky man, with a paunch that, as he sat, sagged nearly to his knees, a triple chin, and a nose with a knobly end, in shape and colour like an overripe strawberry.
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