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Missy gulped; Uncle Charlie had made an unwitting revelation! But she tried not to give herself away; still casual, she asked: "Oh! do other people fall?" "All the ladies fall for Saunders," said Uncle Charlie. Missy hesitated, then hazarded: "Aunt Isabel, too?" "Oh, yes." Uncle Charlie looked pathetically unconcerned. "Aunt Isabel likes to have him around. He often comes in handy at dances."
"There are plenty more, but the best are in this cabinet; and there's a millionaire chap, in New York perhaps you can guess his name, Smith? who has offered a hundred thousand pounds for the thirty little bits of ivory in it." "I think that must have been the great Paul Van Vreck," Knight hazarded. "I thought you'd guess! There aren't many who'd make such an offer.
A few of us bet five to one you wouldn't stick it a month; but here you are. Only I can tell you this, Ray: you're wilting under it. You're not half the man you were. You're getting beastly thin looking a worm in fact." Raymond laughed. "I'm all right. Plenty of time to make up for lost time." "It's metal more attractive, I believe," hazarded Motyer.
She even hazarded to her attendant some remarks upon the singularity of De Lacy's conduct, who, authorized as he was by his situation, seemed yet as much afraid to approach her as if she had been a basilisk.
"Your Highness evidently knows the Leithcourts," I hazarded, after a brief silence. "I have heard of them," was her unsatisfactory reply. "I go to England sometimes. When the Prince was alive, we were often at Claridge's for the season. The Prince was for five years military attaché at the Embassy under de Staal, you know. What I know of the Leithcourts is not to their credit.
Then comes the prediction of this re-action hazarded by "a sagacious observer withdrawn from the world, and surveying its movements from a distance," Mr. Alexander Knox.
Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the Algebraists. I have even hazarded the new verb potenziate, with its derivatives, in order to express the combination or transfer of powers.
There was something so remarkable in the apparent security of the smuggler, that it naturally led to the belief he was certain of being protected by some known obstacle, and it was decided to sound before the ship was hazarded.
May called the H. E. rifles; but Leonard looked half shy, half grim, and so decidedly growled off all Aubrey's attempts at inquiry or congratulation, that Ethel hazarded none, and Aubrey looked discomfited, wearing an expression which Harry took to mean that the weight of his rifle fatigued him, and insisted on carrying it for him, in, spite of his rather insulted protests and declarations that the sailor was an invalid; Ethel had walked forwards, and found Leonard at her side, with a darkening brow as he glanced back at the friendly contest.
"Are you sure it's the only way?" "If you don't want Nick to know," he said. "And what if he spreads it abroad?" she hazarded. "We can always treat it as idle gossip, you know," said Max. "Imminent but not actual the sort of thing over which we blush demurely and say nothing." She smiled in spite of herself. "It's very good of you," she said with feeling. "Not a bit," said Max. "I shall enjoy it.
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