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And always since I have wondered if he left that scene of death because of the emotion he could not hide. Georg said: "You should not talk, Wolfgar." "But I want to talk. I have only a few minutes. Just these last few minutes I want to talk to my Princess Maida. You'll excuse us the Princess Maida and me won't you? Just for these last few minutes?" We withdrew beyond his fading sight.
So well had the giant made his observations, that though Niels climbed down the tree as fast as he could, so as to hide among the bushes, he had just got to the ground when the enemy was upon him. 'Stay where you are, said the giant, 'or I'll put my foot on you, and there won't be much of you left after that. Niels gave in, and the giant carried him back to his comrades.
Vauquier hides the earrings in her pocket. She goes to bed in order to be chloroformed. She knows that it is very possible that her room will be searched before she regains consciousness, or before she is well enough to move. There is only one place to hide them in, only one place where they will be safe. In bed with her. But in the morning she must get rid of them, and a nurse is with her.
"Mamma is always in such a fuss to go somewhere and do something else," she said, rather affecting the drawl of a fashionable young lady; for she could hide anxiety better, she felt, that way. "Do you know, Mr. Torrens, I don't believe a word of all that about people coming. Nobody's coming. If there is, they've been there ever so long. I did so want to talk to you about one of your poems.
Great Caesar's ghost! I'll bet these dead trees are full of squirrels. Still, now, a moment." The squirrel sat for an instant in plain view on a dead limb of a spruce; then he barked and scampered around in great excitement, his tail bobbing up and down in time to his movements. He would run, hide behind the great tree trunk, then out again to jeer and scold and jerk his tail.
The floating branches turned lazily over and over to the lapping of the sluggish current, and the green slime oozing from the clustered beaver lodges of the far side might hide either a miry bottom, or a treacherous hole.
So maybe it seemed better to our captain to hide his ill-gotten treasure there in those far-away parts, and afterward to try and bargain with it for his life when he should reach New York, rather than to sail straight for the Americas with what he had earned by his piracies, and so risk losing life and money both.
She began to consider already with great anxiety how she could hide this precious money. In the midst of her thoughts Maurice awoke, and Toby shook himself and came round and looked into her face. Toby was Maurice's own special property.
Only a small degree of it is found among all the inhabitants of this peculiar planet. No doubt hypocrisy would be greatly lessened in our own social life if we could no longer hide our real thoughts.
"No, no," he said in a whisper, "there can be no touch of hands between us." And Pierre, looking up, added: "C'est vrai. That is the truth. You go home. I got to hide. So so." And he turned and went into the hut.
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