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"I suppose the Princess will explain my presence to the King." "Oh, he will be glad to see you; he counted on your aiding him in this matter." "Then, it's well I didn't fail him or my usefulness as the American Ambassador would be ended." "Surely, he would not have held that against you?" Courtney smiled rather grimly. "Presently, my dear Major, you will know a bit more of Courts and Monarchs."
Knight's query. 'In case of urgency he is to be fetched. His box is No. 3. 'The Alhambra Theatre! Where is that? gasped Mr. Knight. It should be explained that he held the stage in abhorrence, and, further, that the Alhambra had then only been opened for a very brief period. 'Two out, and the third at the theatre! Mr. Knight mused grimly, hastening through Seven Dials.
"Where are you going?" said Angela, turning to look at him. "To California," he answered grimly. She paused for a moment, and then said in a tranquil tone, "Oh, no." "No? Why not?" said Percival, smiling a little in spite of himself. "I think that if you go you will be back again in six months." "Ah? You think I have no constancy in me; no resolution; no manliness."
Oh, she was right, she was right. Pish! And there's an end of it." He was aware of softly moving feet below a measured tread. He listened and heard them beyond dispute. "Nevile!" he said, "like a beast, padding about his place." He listened on, grimly amused. Let him pad and rage. But he was to be startled. A voice hailed him, not Ingram's. "Beg your pardon, sir." "Hulloa!" he cried.
Now, as I understand it, while we manoeuvre over the plant, blow up the barricades and, if possible, 'get' the oxygen-tanks, our men on the ground will pour in through the gaps and storm the place, under the command of Edward Hargreaves. Is that the idea?" "Exactly, Comrade Marion," answered Gabriel. "You've hit it to a T." Craig laughed grimly, as he drew at his pipe.
I heard that you had been in the village, looking for some one. I am sorry that I was away. There is no one else who would come to you." "So I discovered," he remarked, a little grimly. "No one else," she went on, "would come to you because of Mr. Fentolin. He does not wish to have you here. They love him so much in the village that he had only to breathe the word. It was enough."
If you had named your figure to begin with, we would have saved a lot of idle talk, and you would have had my answer the sooner: NOTHING!" "Do you know," said the other, in a grimly musing way, "there has always been one man, but only one until now, that I have wished I might add to my present associates. I refer to the so-called Gray Seal. To-night there are two.
They invited me to go aboard, and I didn't think it wise to refuse the invitation." "I imagine not," Rick commented grimly. "Then what?" "Naturally, they demanded to know what I was doing. I admitted to overpowering curiosity that got the better of my manners. They wanted to know who I was and why I was on the island. I told them the truth, of course, at least partly. I identified all of us.
She seemed to be falling off into the trough of the waves. "Keep her up!" yelled Ben to Bluewater Bill, who sat grimly at the wheel affixed to the cabin bulkhead. "I can't!" roared back Bill against the fury of the wind. "What's the matter?" "The engine's broke down, I guess; anyhow, she don't answer her helm, I can't get steerageway on her."
Kincaid held the boat while Bobby stepped ashore; then made it fast, and, without bothering with the game, opened the hut and lit the candle. Bobby sat down dully. He had no further interest in life. Mr. Kincaid glanced at his disconsolate little figure humped over on the stool, and smiled grimly beneath his moustache. But he made no comment; and set about immediate construction of a fire.
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