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Now, I don't know if you took note of it, but that's a remarkable looking woman; a remarkably handsome woman; and I've spent these years here without guessing that such a woman existed hereabouts. Eh?" Mr. Rogers relapsed into mild facetiousness. "If you were a younger man, Commandant, I could hatch up a pretty story out of to-night's doings and if I didn't mind a laugh against myself."
After a short time Raymond began to feel the pressure of Nancy's little body in his arms when their dance was over. He began to resent other arms about her. Her eyes were lovely so blue and sympathetic. She never set a man guessing. Raymond had had enough of guessing! About that time Mrs. Tweksbury added an urge to her heart's desire that she little suspected.
The men recoiled; but one voiced the general sentiment in: "This is cowardly on your part, Lincoln, presuming on your rank!" "If any of you think that, let him test it here and now!" was the reply, equally as oblivious of military decorum. But they flinched, for he was larger and lustier than anybody else. "You can level up," he said, guessing their reasoning; "choose your own weapons."
"There, now, ducky, so it's true," she said. "Truth's gone to the dogs and they do what they please, and here we were guessing that you'd go free. Norableva says, 'She'll go free. I say, 'No, say I. 'No, dear, my heart tells me they'll give it her. And so it's turned out," she went on, evidently listening with pleasure to her own voice.
Every one laughed, except the Spartan, who darted a look of indignation and contempt at the epicure. In this moment a deep voice, hitherto unknown to us, shouted suddenly through the window, "A glad greeting to you, my friends!" "A glad greeting," echoed the chorus of revellers, questioning and guessing who this late arrival might prove to be.
Only if it stopped at the gate would he have to take action. It did stop at the gate. Mike saw it stop. Then its engine was shut off, and a man got out of it, and came up to the garden gate. Though the watching Mike had never seen him before, he had little difficulty in guessing who he was, and he remembered something that the Sergeant had said about him.
I heard her breath catch, and turning away, she began to flutter the pages of the book upon the table. "And you were always so clever at guessing, weren't you?" she said after a moment, keeping her face averted. "At least it has saved your explaining the situation, and you should be thankful for that."
After receiving many entreaties to return in case of alarm, they took leave, Louis seating himself beside the driver, as well to keep a look-out, as to free Miss Conway from fears of a tete-a-tete. Except for such a charge of ladies, he would have been delighted at the excitement of an emeute; but he was far from guessing how serious a turn affairs were taking.
I directed my own gaze to see what possessed hers, and this is what we both beheld together, little guessing what the years to come should bring to make that moment memorable in our minds. A thin but well-formed boy of eleven; with a pleasant, kindly face, somewhat too white, in which there was a look as there was evidence in his walk also of his being tired from prolonged exertion or endurance.
At last the emperor, hearing of his plight, commanded Febilla to release him, and Virgilius went home vowing vengeance. The next morning every fire in Rome went out, and as there were no matches in those days this was a very serious matter. The emperor, guessing that this was the work of Virgilius, besought him to break the spell.
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