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When he had hastily passed approval of them he turned to Mary and said: "Where is thy finery? Open thou thy chest and bring forth thy treasures also." In reply Mary opened her chest and took out an alabaster vase of rare design.
He faltered at this, as if doubtful of the result if he went further, but took heart, then, and asked, "Don't you think this is a pretty nice hotel" hastily adding as a concession of the probable existence of much finer things at the East "for a small hotel?"
The telephone bell rang sharply, and Jane rose to answer it. She was gone some time. When she came back she was even more excited. "It was Frank. He's heard it. It was in the papers to-night." "Did it tell anything more?" "Not much, I guess. Still, there was some. He's going to bring it home. It's 'most supper-time. Why don't you wait?" she questioned, as Miss Flora got hastily to her feet.
I felt I detested him, and he should know why. 'I expected to be misunderstood, I returned coldly, 'but hardly to be accused of hysterical goodness. To be sure, a girl will do anything nowadays to get herself talked about! 'Oh, in a low voice, 'that rascal! But I will be even with him. How many more of my speeches did Cunliffe repeat? 'Oh, I had heard enough, I replied hastily.
Almost despairing, and thoroughly drenched, I was about yielding myself up to the fury of the tempest, when my eye fell upon what appeared to be a crevice in the rock. Hastily making towards it, I entered. The deeper I penetrated the larger it became, and I found myself at last snugly ensconced within the recesses of a vast cave.
The woman who had been shaken out of her sleep by Thomasin had hastily dressed herself and lighted a fire, the other servant being left to snore on in peace at the back of the house.
'Yes, yes, said Uncle Benjy hastily; 'the box is iron, you see. However, take care of it, because I am going to make it worth your while. Ah, you are a good girl, Anne. I wish you was mine! Anne looked at Uncle Benjy. She had known for some time that she possessed all the affection he had to bestow. 'Why do you wish that? she said simply. 'Now don't ye argue with me. Where d'ye put the coffer?
'Let him go back to the land whence he came, he shouted in wrath; 'does he expect me to give my daughter to an exile? And he began to smash the drinking vessels in his fury; indeed, he quite frightened the young man, who ran hastily home to his friends, and told the youth what the king had said.
"Meanwhile you know what to do." He had scarcely spoken, when a man came to the a tent and asked for admission; a second later he had entered, bearing a despatch. Colonel Sapsworth read it hastily. "By God!" he muttered under his breath; "but I expected it!"
He knew that he would be driven from the encampment if ever they found what he was doing, so hastily and quietly he worked to win her. He told her of the wonderful land from which he had come; of the beautiful houses in which his friends lived; of the lives of ease which they lived; then he told her of his love for her and begged her to flee with him to his land and his people.
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