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His villainous face lighted with evil triumph as he surveyed the plight of his captives. "Looks like old times," he gloated, "only now you boys are wearing irons that have graced the leg of many a slave. And there's a black boy guarding the white boys now. That's funny." Throwing back his head he gave vent to peal after peal of laughter.
"Never for a moment," said he. "You have never gloated over me as the bird of prey gloats over the poor beast that is soon to become carrion beneath its claws? You have not counted me out as equal to so much land, and calculated on me as a balance at your banker's?
Reggie collected Buddhas, Chinese snuff-bottles and lacquered medicine cases called inro in Japanese. "Caviare to the general!" murmured Reggie, as he gloated over a chaste design of fishes in mother-of-pearl, a pseudo-Korin. "Poor old Geoffrey! He's only a barbarian; but perhaps she will be interested.
Good!" he repeated exultantly as he gloated over the repulsive thing. Then gloomily: "But why couldn't I 'a' took it? Luck's been ag'in' me for days. Found a burned cabin after I quit you on the Cheat, an' 'lowed to ambush the party when they made for the Ohio. 'Stead o' goin' to their villages they fooled me by strikin' across to here. Now they've made this kill! Who be they?" "The Grisdols.
"And now," she gloated, "that faded Elsa will cease to lord it over me and to think that another Karl Armstadt has brought me this why that stingy fellow would never have bought me a blue-stone ring, if he had been made the Emperor's Minister." Katrina now rose and preened before her mirror. "Won't you place it round my neck?" she asked, holding out the necklace.
Old Martha Blair declares the girl loves him better than her eyes." Thyra made a sound like a strangled moan in the middle of August's speech. She heard the rest of it immovably. When it came to an end she stood and looked down upon him in a way that silenced him. "You've told the news you came to tell, and gloated over it, and now get you gone," she said slowly.
She hurled herself at Tom as he gloated over his enjoyment, and would have asked nothing better than to treat him as he was treating the kittens righteous retribution in her case, not enjoyment! but he was too strong for her.
The next day they were to have school only in the morning. In the afternoon they were to go in a big hay-wagon down to the village to the "exercises." 'Lias came to school in his new blue-serge trousers and his white blouse. The little girls gloated over his appearance, and hung around him, for who was to "visit school" that morning but Mr. Pond himself! Cousin Ann had arranged it somehow.
At night, when she was supposed to be asleep, Myrtle crept from her bed, turned on the electric light and gloated over her treasures, which she had almost feared might vanish into thin air and leave her as desolate as before.
As soon as he saw her busy with the clothes-pegs, Master 'Biades crept to a small iron door in the wall, a foot or two from the range, and stealthily lifted the latch. In that cavity lay the treasure. Gold untold gold! He thrust his head into the aperture, and gloated. But it was so deep that even when his eyes became used to the darkness he could see nothing of the hoard. He wanted to gloat more.
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