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We may trade with her, plunge into her politics, steal from her Art, emphasise her religion she remains alone, apart, mysterious.... I think it was with a kind of gulping surprise, as after a sudden plunge into icy cold water, that we English became conscious of this.
A minute later George Fairburn was rapidly thawing before the rousing fire in the inn's best parlour, and was gulping down the cup of hot mulled ale the good-natured landlady had put into his trembling hands. "I'm all right, ma'am, now, and I'll go. Thank you and good night, ma'am."
He had thought it better to fix an exact hour, and had calculated that the whole matter might be completed before Colligan went over to the inn. He kept continually looking at his watch, and gulping down his drink, and thinking over and over again how he would begin the conversation.
In three minutes you are at about four thousand feet. You have been making wide circles over the field and watching the other machines. At forty-five hundred feet you throttle down and wait on that level for your companions to catch up. Soon the escadrille is bunched and off for the lines. You begin climbing again, gulping to clear your ears in the changing pressure.
"It's an it's an ." The voice stammered and hesitated. "Oh, speak! Oh, speak." She could hear the voice gulping. "Oh, please do speak!" "Doda isn't very well. Doda's very ill. It's an it's an accident." "I'll come. I'll come." "Is Mr. Occleve there?" "He isn't. He's out." "Can you get him?" "No. Yes. I don't know. I can't think. Oh, tell me. Tell me."
"But Hermy ain't that sort. Hermy's good " "Sure, but this guy's got her fazed she thinks he's square all right she'll trust him an' then s'posin' he ain't?" "I I ain't s'posin' nothin' like that!" said Spike, gulping his whisky. "Well, s'posin' he's been meetin' her in a wood on the sly eh? S'posin' they been huggin' an' kissin' " "Say now you cut that out " stammered Spike, his voice thick.
While Percival did not take his eyes from Landover's face during this speech, he was aware that Miss Clinton and her aunt had turned abruptly away and were leaning against the rail a few yards distant, their backs to him. Olga Obosky and Careni-Amori were regarding him with shining, approving eyes, while Mrs. Block, gulping furiously, clasped her husband's arm and kept up a constant muttering.
He thought to himself, quite impersonally: "She's a real beauty, that youngster. No wonder they ask her to dance and nobody is horrid. Men are likely enough to go quite mad about her as Nina predicts: probably some of 'em have already that chuckle-headed youth who was there Tuesday, gulping up the tea " And, "What was his name?" he asked aloud.
"Mirabelle listen if they modify that ordinance so Sunday shows are legal again those other fellows'll want to buy back their contracts from Henry. There's only a few weeks but if Henry only raised a thousand dollars he'd be so close to his ten thousand " He reached for a glass of water and drank it, gulping.
Her astonishment had been of the mute, agonized kind; her eyes, hollow, eloquent with unspoken misery and resignation, would have told Trevison that this was not the first time, had he not known from personal observation. She stood watching, gulping, shame and mortification bringing patches of color into her cheeks, as Trevison carried Levins into a bedroom and laid him down, removing his boots.
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