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Billy also gloated over the portraits of well-known deputy sheriffs and other officers of the law printed in the same charming police paper.

'If I had come ten times the distance, I should have been repaid! His round eyes gloated upon the flattery. 'Well, well, I mustn't pretend that I think the lecture worthless. But you might have had the manuscript to read. Are you quite alone? Then I must take care of you. It's a wretched night; we'll have a cab to King's Cross. He said it with a consciousness of large-handed generosity.

And as he turned his head to flash one glance at each of them, she recognized what Mahommed Gunga had gloated over from the first the grim decision, that will sacrifice all take full responsibility and use all means available for the one unflinching purpose of the game in hand. She knew that minute, and her father knew, that if she could be used in any way at all he would make use of her.

"Well, mebbe they would," said Mrs. McSwiggins, "and anyhow they's saved us from the po'house, and that's a fact, Mary, and don' you forgit it when you say yo' prayers." Far down the road the Mysterious Four gloated over their success. "Wasn't it fun?" gasped Anne. "Here's to the fairy Juannlot," cried Launcelot. "May she never cease to do good," cried Judy, beaming on her fellow conspirators.

From what he had long ago seen on the night of the storm, and now from the way the old man hinted, and talked, and broke off; also from the uneasiness he sometimes manifested, George had guessed that there was something over whose possession he gloated, but for whose presence among his treasures he could not comfortably account He therefore set himself, without asking a single question, to make the laird unbosom.

Indeed we may say that four gloated over it, for Liffie Lee, unable to restrain her curiosity, put her head in at the door at first with the more or less honest intention of asking if "hany think was wanted," and afterwards let her head remain from sheer inability to withdraw it.

"Dade an' Malcolm bothered me a bit until I thought of sendin' Harvey Miller here with that fairy tale about the forty beeves bogged down in Double Fork, but I reckon now " She gasped, comprehending the trap he had set for her, and his grip on her hands tightened. "Dade an' Malcolm can't get back for an hour yet," he gloated, "an' by that time we'll be miles away."

Ere she died, the fatal prophetess foretold this time, and gloated on his future treachery. 'Think not of him. 'And the Karasmian; think you he is very strong? 'Enough, love, for our glory. He is a potent warrior: I trust that Abner will not rob us of our intended victory. 'So you triumph, I care not by whose sword. Dost go indeed to-morrow? 'At break of dawn.

He said it was a wonderful improvement, and the best possible augury of complete recovery, and that now the first step had been taken we could look forward to continuous improvement. Oh, how happy we were! I don't think any of us slept much that night; we just lay awake and thanked God, and gloated over the glad news. All the next day Vere's face shone with the same wonderful incredulous joy.

So it was that as the Seigneur made his epigram and gloated over it, the five men, with horses at a convenient distance, armed to the teeth, broke stealthily into Charley's house. They entered silently through the kitchen window, and made their way into the little hall. Two stood guard at the foot of the stairs, and three crept into the shop.