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Had it not been that we had spent something like half an hour dragging it from the well and trying to persuade the horses to drink, the harness would have been removed and we should have been in our blankets and fast asleep. As it was, the Turks were in our position twenty minutes after our hurried departure.
"The result," M'Iver hurried to exclaim, but putting out his breast with a touch of vanity, "of a private rencontre, an affair of my own with a Reay gentleman, and not to be laid to my credit as part of the war's scaith at all."
I staggered up the opposite bank and hurried on. She lay quiet, her head against my shoulder. Her hat had fallen off and a wet, fragrant strand of her hair brushed my cheek. Once I stopped and bent my head to listen, to make sure that she was breathing. She was, I felt her breath upon my face. Afterwards I remembered all this; just then I was merely thankful that she was alive.
"I had a hunch they wouldn't! Okay. I'm going to take off right now and search the coast. If that pram wasn't connected with the attack on Duke and Jerry, I'll eat it." "Good luck," Blake said. "Let me know if you need any help." Rick hurried back to the porch. The JANIG scout team had reported early in the morning that the pram was gone from the pier.
He proceeded again to answer me, but I cut him short by saying that if he spoke again I would shoot him at once; I thus had the last speech and therefore, as a matter of course, was in possession of the public favour: Peerat was consequently hurried off by his friends, whilst myself, the young prisoner, and two of the natives who had accompanied me, started on our return for the settlement.
Doctor Kane was too impatient to stay with the vessel, so, with a few followers, he hurried on in front to survey the coast in a boat, somewhat unpleasantly named the Forlorn Hope, which, however, they soon abandoned for a sleigh.
Selwyn, fixing his monocle and staring harder than ever; "I wonder where it can have got to?" "Perhaps it melted!" Lisbeth suggested, "and I should so have loved an ice!" she sighed. "Then, of course, I'll get you another, with pleasure," he said and hurried off, eyeing the plate dubiously as he went.
He was expected early, would take in Beechcote, indeed, on his way from the train to Lytchett. Who else should advise her if not he? In a hundred ways, practical and tender, he had made her understand that, for her mother's sake and her own, she was to him as a daughter. She mentioned him to Fanny. "Of course" she hurried over the words "we need only say that you have been engaged.
Thornton, in order to pay every respect to them, Mrs. Thornton drew up slightly offended, and gave Margaret no sympathy indeed, hardly any credit for the statement of her mother's indisposition. 'How is Mr. Thornton? asked Mr. Hale. 'I was afraid he was not well, from his hurried note yesterday.
Well, she showed feeling for young Cressett, and her hit at me was an answer. It struck me on the mouth. But she's an eternal anxiety. A man she respects! A man to govern her! Fleetwood hurried his paces. 'I couldn't have allowed poor Ambrose. Besides, he had not a chance never had in anything. It wants a head, wants the man who can say no to her. "The Reveller's Aurora," you called her.
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