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"I have asked to be transferred to Willamsburg. I I have not one friend in Jamestown; why should I stay here?" he cried bitterly. "But you have," she exclaimed, eagerly; "you have. I am your friend." "Friend! That is not what I ask of you," he said, almost gruffly. Silence, broken only by the clatter of the hoofs upon the road followed his words.
I stood in the doorway of the building, staring gloomily, hollow-eyed at the well, at nothing, now that I stop to think of it. The manager of the place, an amiable, jocund descendant of Lazarus, approached me. "Quite a storm last night, Mr. Schmarck," he said, rubbing his hands on an oil-rag. I gruffly agreed with him in a monosyllable. "But it is lovely to-day, sir. Heavenly, sir." "Heavenly?"
Presently she gave a little start. "Who is over there?" Her voice became a tone of deep awe. "She?" Wrinkles and Grief exchanged a swift glance. Pennoyer said gruffly, "Who do you mean?" "Why," said Florinda, "you know. She. The the girl that Billie likes." Pennoyer hesitated for a moment and then said wrathfully: "Of course she is! Who do you suppose?" "Oh!" said Florinda.
He himself opened his pocket-book; the police agents turned out the pockets of his waistcoat and unbuttoned his shirt over his breast; finally the sergent de ville said gruffly, "Yet I seem to have seen you here before this morning. Be off!" It was the Representative Gindrier.
"I wished them good night, and one of them gruffly bade me good night too; but I could not make out who they were, though one did for a moment strike me to be Desborough, and both were tallish sort of men." "You're a lad of penetration, Bill; now saddle me Silvertail as fast as you can." "Saddle Silvertail! surely father, you are not going out yet: it's not day-light."
The mob had been cleared away, but no one was allowed to linger in its precincts, and the youth was gruffly ordered to take himself elsewhere, which he promptly did, walking up the Saalgasse, and past the Cathedral, until he came once more into the Fahrgasse, down which he proceeded, pausing for another glance at Goebel's house, until he came to the bridge, where he stood with arms resting on the parapet, thoughtfully shaping in his mind what he would say to Herr Goebel in the morning.
An accident happened to it, as you see." Martin tore the envelope clear open, and glanced over fifteen bills of one thousand dollar denomination each. "All right," he said gruffly. "Will you sign this receipt?" asked Bart politely, tendering the slip of paper he had prepared at the office for this especial occasion.
'Faix, then, it's little good they'll do ye, muttered the other gruffly. 'What d'ye mean by that, sir? asked he angrily. 'Just what I said, my lord, the devil a more nor less, and that the money you see here is no more yours nor it is mine! It belongs to the land it came from. Ay, ay, stamp away, and go red in the face: you must hear the truth, whether you like it or no.
"I hardly know yet just what I do think of him," he answered, slowly; "I have not formed a definite opinion of him, but I think, as your daughter says, he somehow seems the last man whom I would have expected you to associate yourself with." Mr. Underwood frowned. "I don't generally make mistakes in people," he said, rather gruffly; "if I'm mistaken in this man, it will be the first time."
Despite the fact that Chloe had known them only as fierce roisterers she was forced to admit that they looked harmless and peaceful enough, under the chastening effect of a week of starvation. MacNair wasted no time, but striding up to the girl, who stood upon the veranda of her cottage, plunged unceremoniously into the business at hand. "Do not misunderstand me," he began gruffly.
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