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I did not think of that!" returned the colonel impulsively, half-starting from his seat in his excitement. "We must be near her now, captain, though, surely. We must find them, and I must see my little girl again!" "Kape aisy, me darlint; kape aisy," here interposed Garry O'Neil, before Captain Applegarth could answer the question.
"A stout old party, fair complected, who played the flute." "That's him!" cried Phelps, half-starting from his chair. "I reckon he must be up Jaluit way," said Tom coolly, "Captain Cole being bound for the Marshalls at the time." I could feel them shooting glances all around us.
One glance he gave the countess, then smiled. "I have sought at your hands the reasons why you should desire my death," said he slowly. "You withhold them. Be it so. I take it that you are ashamed of them; and so, their nature is not difficult to conjecture." "Sir " began Rotherby, hotly, half-starting from his seat. "Nay, let him trundle on, Charles," said his mother. "He'll be the sooner done."
"Perhaps," began the passenger, as if he were about to offer some good- natured excuse for the man's awkwardness, but his observations were drowned by a louder clatter below than ever; and, ere the captain could descend to ascertain the cause, the new steward rushed up the companion ladder, with his eyes half-starting from his head, his hair standing on end, and his face pale with terror.
Suddenly changing his tone, he went on: "What's your name?" "Alec Forbes." "Alec Forbes. I'll try to remember it. I seldom remember anybody's name, though. I sometimes forget my own. What was the fellow's name you thrashed the other day?" "Patrick Beauchamp. I did not mention it before." "The deevil it was!" exclaimed Mr Cupples, half-starting from his seat. "Did ye gie him a richt thrashin'?"
Only twice did Jimmie flare up; the first time when Major Gaddis voiced his indignation that any citizen of the great American democracy should ally himself with these Bolshevik vermin, who were carrying on a reign of terror throughout Russia, burning, slaying, torturing "Who talks about torturing?" shrieked Jimmie, half-starting from his chair.
I should never have agreed to the crazy compact that your father and I made together, if I had realized the seriousness of it." "No," she replied, quietly. "You should not have agreed to it. It was the mistake of your life, and, perhaps, of mine." "You know how I love you, dear," he began, half-starting from his chair.
Count Quinnox looked to Truxton King for inspiration and that gentleman favoured him with a singularly dis-spiriting nod of the head. The old Graustarkian cleared his throat and rather stiffly announced that he would receive Mr. Blithers if he would call on him at the Ritz that afternoon. "What!" exclaimed both agents, half-starting from their chairs in amazement. The Count stared hard at them.
"What insolence!" she said, half-starting up. "And yet and yet 'tis more to my liking than fine phrases! And it was true what he said had he been Monsieur le Duc de Montmorency or Monsieur de Villeroi ! At least I shall see him again he will come back they always do." But though she smiled, a curious foreboding and a sort of fear seized upon her. At the château Calvert found Mr.
A drop used upon a handkerchief emits a most delicate odour, like jasmine, but a single drop in a cup of tea means death. For two hours the doomed person feels no effect. But suddenly he or she becomes faint, and succumbs to heart disease." "Ah, I see!" she gasped, half-starting from her chair, her face ashen grey. "I I realise what you intend, Father!
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