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Now, at this moment, when there seemed a likelihood of being industriously useful, Jinnie loved them the more. She was going to work, and into her active little brain came the sound of pennies, and the glint of silver. "I want to work, Peggy," she beseeched, "and I'll make a lot of money for you." "Every hand ought to do its share," observed Peg, stolidly, glancing at the girl's slender fingers.
She did not suspect that he meant it to be so; she only felt dazzled by the easy, glancing references he made to men and books and places. They stopped at the railroad track to watch the eastward-bound train thunder by. Five hours out of San Francisco, its passengers looked quite at home in the big green upholstered seats.
As he walked along the silent batteries, even the urgency of his visit could not prevent him from glancing his eyes towards the splintered sides, those terrible vestiges, by which the paths of the shot of their enemy might be traced; and by the time he tapped lightly at the door of the cabin, his quick look had embraced every material injury the vessel had sustained in her principal points of defence.
I was introduced to him once, but he stared at me next time so haughtily that I cut him dead. Do you know, ever since then I've suspected he's one of us; perhaps you can tell me, Esther? I dare say he's no more Sidney Graham than I am." "Hush!" said Esther, glancing warningly towards Addie, who, however, betrayed no sign of attention. "Sister?" asked Leonard, lowering his voice to a whisper.
Well, you'll find the coolies there, on the beach, waiting for you. All but one," he added, grimly. "We marooned six of them, but the seventh didn't need to be marooned. They tried to plunder us of our boat, but, by , we made it interesting for 'em!" "I say, steady, old man!" exclaimed Nat Ridgeway, glancing nervously toward the girls in the surrounding group.
"Then perhaps we had better not eat it," said she, glancing at me over her shoulder but, meeting my eye, she laughed. And so we presently sat down to supper and, poached though it may have been, that rabbit made a truly noble end, notwithstanding. We were sitting in the moonlight. "Now," said Charmian, staring up at the luminous heaven, "let us talk."
Deacon, a portrait painter of evident note on the Coast; and a Captain Lester, then captain of a Pacific Mail liner, who had sailed skipper for Dick nearly twenty years before and who had helped Dick to his navigation. The meal was at its close, and the superintendent was glancing at his watch, when Dick said: "Jeremy, I want to show you what I've been up to. We'll go right now.
They were all rather silent, and Radmore began to have a strange, uncanny feeling that none of them could see him, that he was a wraith, projected out of the past into the present. It was a novel and most disconcerting sensation. But no one glancing at his keen face, now illumined with a half humorous expression of interest, would have guessed the mixed and painful feelings which possessed him.
"Of course I do," he answered, having nothing else to say. "Very well. But if I ever should be " "But you just said that you never would be!" "I know; but if I should just once then take me in your arms, and say nothing, but kiss me as you did that day by the river." "I understand," he said. "Are you angry now?" But he was laughing. "Almost," she answered, glancing sideways in a smile.
"After working hours," Nora confessed, glancing critically at the sole which had just been tendered for Tallente's examination, "the chief interest of Susan and myself, as you may have observed, lies in food and in your sex. I think we must have what some nasty German woman once called the man-hunger." "It sounds cannibalistic," Tallente rejoined. "Have I any cause for alarm?"
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