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'Never mind, I said, trying to look enigmatical and rather enjoying Marion's respectful admiration of my wondrous powers, 'all's well that ends well . . . ask Elizabeth if it isn't, I added as that worthy lurched in with the tea-tray. 'The wedding isn't going to be postponed after all, Elizabeth, announced Marion gleefully.
And he chuckled delightedly, as, groping in the half-light among the kegs, he discovered and recognized his own markings upon many of the empty kegs. The whole thing amused him vastly, and he dilated upon his various discoveries to those who accompanied him. "Say, Danny, boy, don't it beat hell?" he cried gleefully.
I used to enrage you very much, I fear," he said, half gleefully. "Yes," she admitted, with a smile, "you did." "And then how you rocked your arms at me, Grizel! Do you remember?" She remembered it all so well! This rocking of the arms, as they called it, was a trick of hers that signified sudden joy or pain. They hung rigid by her side, and then shook violently with emotion.
Well, do sit down, now you have come, and let us get to these horrible old notices." So the boys drew up their chairs, and Polly pushed the cook-book, with an affectionate little pat, into the center of the table. "That's what we are going to study," she said gleefully. "Study?" echoed Pickering, with a very long face.
'Now, Queenie, went on Theo gleefully, 'in five minutes I shall be ready for you, and we are going to have a good time in the boat. Get your hat on, deary. 'May I bring some of my doll-people, Theo? Queenie turned as she was disappearing through the doorway to ask anxiously. 'Oh dear, yes!
"When he returned from his expedition and learned the story of my mother's fate I was present as Tal Hajus told him; but never by the quiver of a muscle did he betray the slightest emotion; only he did not laugh as Tal Hajus gleefully described her death struggles.
"But," he added, "there are sometimes important things left by travelers, for this morning our chambermaid found in one of the rooms this handkerchief in which is tied three small pocketbooks," and he held it up out of reach of the boys. "It is ours," cried the boys gleefully. "Give it to us, please," and they reached for it. "Hands off!" laughed the landlord.
His watchfulness was only turned upon Robert Wade's disgruntled spies. From the heavily subsidized Einstein, Clayton gleefully learned that the weekly "report" of one or the other of the Fidelity Company's men consisted of a morose shake of the head and the single word, "Nothing!"
"We have caught the person, the lady you helped to escape," blurted out the detective, unable to resist making the point. "The Countess? Is she here, in custody? Never!" "Undoubtedly she is in custody, and in very close custody too," went on M. Floçon, gleefully. " Au secret, if you know what that means in a cell separate and apart, where no one is permitted to see or speak to her."
"Now, I'm not so sure of that!" cried Jordan suddenly, with strange fire in his eyes. "What do you mean?" "Oh, nothing," mumbled Jordan, suddenly recovering himself. Then, under his breath, he chuckled gleefully: "Miss Bentley is just struck on the uniform, of course. A girl like that couldn't care for a misfit like Prescott. Well, he won't be in the uniform much longer.
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