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Having attended to all the requirements of the projected Millville Tribune, as he thought, Mr. Merrick called the operator for the amount of his bill and paid it to Sam Cotting three dollars and eighty cents. The sum fairly made the onlookers gasp, and as the Merrick party passed out, Silas, the miller, said solemnly: "Don't anybody tell me talk is cheap, arter this.
It is long before I recover from my first mouthful, and the Baron stands over me with a fan and a glass of wine, while Mrs. Steele laughs until the tears come into her eyes. "Water! water!" I gasp. "No, vino blanco, Señorita," says the Baron, putting the glass to my lips. I drain the last drop. "Now some water, please." "Yes, leedle more vino blanco," says the Peruvian, pouring out another glass.
Long afterwards he had this vivid illusion that he could see the dice in the box. As the clock was about to strike eleven he had before him three thousand eight hundred dollars. It was his throw. "Two hundred," he said in a whisper, and threw. He won. With a gasp of relief, he got to his feet, the money in his hand.
The girl paused and suddenly became conscious that MacNair was regarding her with a strange look in his eyes. And at his next words she could scarcely believe her ears. "Will you care for my Indians?" The question staggered her. "What!" she managed to gasp. "Just what I said," answered MacNair gruffly.
With difficulty he staggered to the chair opposite me and sat down. I shut the door and resumed my seat and cigar. "Enjoy yourself?" I asked. He was not very steady on his feet, but fairly clear in his brain. "Yes. But it's no good can't stand it," he murmured, pressing his hand hard upon his head and across his eyes. His voice was little more than a gasp. "God! this weakness"
That night I ran into Bolles. ... Well, he uttered a vile insult, and I all but throttled him. Here's my hand, Dick." The hand-grip that followed drew a gasp from Warrington. "Not every man would be so good about it, John. What shall we do about McQuade?" "I was about to say that I shall see McQuade within an hour," in a tone that did not promise well for McQuade. "Wait a day or two, John.
In the drawing of a breath, her overwrought nerves had painted the picture so clearly that she was sick with horror. Sister Wynfreda's red-hot iron would not keep him back, instinct told her. That sacrifice of beauty had not been simple-minded; it had been the one alternative. The girl's light-hearted boldness went from her in a gasp.
"Yes by my every hope of Heaven!" I cried passionately. She continued to survey me with that quiet smile of mocking scorn. "I have heard it said," quoth she, "that the greatest liars are ever those that are readiest to take oath." Then, with a sudden gasp of loathing, "I think you have dropped something, monsieur," said she, pointing to the ground.
Diana couldn't remember when she had been so completely nonplused before. After an involuntary gasp she answered quietly: "I am Diana Von Taer." "Well, I'm glad to meet you, just the same," said Patsy, cheerfully. "We outsiders are liable to look on society folk as we would on a cage of monkeys because we're so very ignorant, you know, and the bars are really between us."
It was big and mouldy, and dark with cobwebs swinging like dusty curtains over the windows that had not been washed for years. The windows looked out over a swamp that was thick with old trees. But Tania saw none of these things when the blanket was first lifted from her head. She gave a gasp of fright and horror.
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