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The two friends coolly saluted each other, as they had before done on the side of Chimborazo; then, with death in his heart, but impassive and grave, Lord K. silently drew forth a box of conserves, a flask of ale and a copy of the "Standard." The repast and the two journals being finished, the tourists separated and descended, each on his own side, without having exchanged a word.
His position, however, could be located by a series of piercing shrieks. The door again opened. Mr. Maundrell, the real chairman of the evening, stood on the threshold. "Chair!" was now the word that arose on every side, and at this signal the Druids disappeared at a trot past the long-bearded, impassive Mr. Maundrell.
In less than a minute, the old man, still as impassive as ever, was stuck up against the wall, and shot while he cast a smile at Jean, his eldest son, and then at his daughter-in-law and the two children, who were staring with terror at the scene. Madame de X. to Madame de L. Etretat, Friday. My dear Aunt, I am going to pay you a visit without making much fuss about it.
The banging of hard bodies, the ring of metallic objects, the grating of a file upon a saw are tried in vain. The animal remains impassive. Not a wince, not a move of the skin; no sign of awakened attention. I succeed no better when I scratch the wood close by with a hard point, to imitate the sound of some neighbouring larva gnawing the intervening thickness.
"Just for a moment," Miss Thorne explained to him quietly, and she handed him a sheet of paper. "I want you to read this read it carefully then I shall turn out the lights again. They are dangerous. After that we may discuss the matter at our leisure." Mr. Grimm read the paper while Miss Thorne's eyes questioned his impassive face.
Val glanced sideways at his mother's impassive face, it had a hunted look in the eyes. 'Poor mother, he thought, and touched her arm with his own. The voice behind droned on. "'I am going to live a new life. "And next day, me Lud, the respondent left by the steamship Tuscarora for Buenos Aires.
There was a strange air of ineffectuality about the three men, as they sprawled at table, smoking and reflecting vaguely on their own condition. The girl was alone, a rather short, sullen-looking young woman of twenty-seven. She did not share the same life as her brothers. She would have been good-looking, save for the impassive fixity of her face, 'bull-dog', as her brothers called it.
He paused a moment, distinctly pleased with his peroration, satisfied that his voice had been without a tremor and his face impassive, and wondering what effect this somewhat lengthy preamble had upon Sir Percy, who through it all had remained singularly quiet.
Because I was a short-sighted fool, I did not see that the better the Norman succeeded, the worse became the Saxon's deceit. My mind changed when your own lips told me what would be the fate of the man who should deceive you." The chief's face was as impassive as stone, but he nodded slightly. "A man of my age does not take it well to be fooled by boys," he said.
"I thought you might have left out the first part of it; also that you might have made the latter half a good bit more explicit." A slow smile spread itself over Adams' impassive face. "Every man has his limitations," he said. "I did the best I could. But the Rajah knew very well what he was about otherwise there would have been no telegram."
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