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I speak relatively," I added, with a laugh. "Of course I mean YOUR own." He gravely made an entry of these details. "Perhaps," I added, "you have already done this?" "Perhaps," he returned enigmatically. "Now, my dear friend," he continued, putting the note-book in his pocket and rising, "would you excuse me for a few moments?
"And the Captain hath a purpose to take him to Provincetown and meet me here on my return." "The land is mayhap safer than the sea should another earthquake visit us," said the Governor gravely, "and he will more than earn his keep if he will but help William with the corn and other tasks. Like thyself we are in sad need of more hands."
"Well, yes, there is," replied Roscoe gravely, "and I thought I'd tell you when we were by ourselves. That cousin of mine, Dirk Roscoe, has been done for. He was found this morning in a back drain, in one of the gullies, with the stab of a dah in his back." "Oh, poor chap!" exclaimed Shafto. "Well, he hadn't much of a life to lose, had he? However, such as it was, he laid it down for others."
"Aren't you sorry you you treated me so?" burst out Nell. His coolness was exasperating. Instead of the contrition and apology she had expected, and which was her due, he evidently intended to tease her, as he had done so often. The young man dropped a blanket and stared. "I don't understand," he said, gravely. "I never saw you before." This was too much for quick-tempered Nell.
"You have not read any of the newspapers?" asked Howard, gravely, bracing himself for the task from which his soul shrank. Stafford shook his head. "No; I have not been able to. I have not been able to do anything, scarcely to think. The blow came so suddenly that I have felt like a man in a dream dazed, bewildered. If I have been able to think at all it is of his love for me, his goodness to me.
"If I am to be cast out like a dog after my faithful service, then you must do it, sir," gravely said Clayton, Witherspoon's warnings returning to stiffen his resolution. "Why not await Mr. Ferris' arrival? I may be able to reach Mr. Worthington's second thoughts through him." The agent of the two far off conspirators lost his self-control at last. "I'll await nothing," roared Robert Wade.
It was useless to argue with such stupendous folly; Captain Flower tried another tack. "And suppose Mrs. Church gets fond of you," he said, gravely. "It doesn't seem right to trifle with a woman's affections like that." "I won't go too far," said the lady-killer in the smoking-cap, reassuringly. "Elizabeth and her mother are still away, I suppose?" said Flower, after a pause. His uncle nodded.
"I am driven to resorting to any honest method which I can find to enable me so to do," he continued. He made a slight emphasis upon the word honest. "I can understand that as fully, possibly, as any man," Anderson replied, gravely. Carroll looked at him. "Yes, so you can," he said "so you can. Well, this much I will say for myself, Mr. Anderson.
Directly after the curtain was drawn aside by the Sheikh for the two officers to pass in, both looking awed as they gave a sharp look round at the strange scene. The next moment the Baggara who had brought the injured man started forward a step to look down at his charge, and then recoiled, to say a few hurried words to the Sheikh, who turned gravely to the doctor and interpreted.
"I suppose you think me very silly for asking such questions," she said. "No," he answered gravely, "but politics are so intricate a subject that they are often not understood by those who are in the midst of them. I admire I think it is very fine in you to want to know." "You are not one of the men who would not wish a woman to know, are you?" "No," he said, "no, I'm not."
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