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"I was in your kitchen," replied Miss Vickers, with scornful emphasis on the last word, "to see my young man." "Well, I can't have you there," said the captain, with a mildness that surprised himself. "One of my rules " Miss Vickers interposed. "I've read'em all over and over again," she said, impatiently.
In the mean time Nero was waiting impatiently and anxiously in his palace at Baiæ, for the arrival of a messenger from Anicetus to inform him that his plot had been successful, and that his mother was drowned. Instead of this a rumor of her escape reached him some time before Agrippina's messenger arrived, and threw him into consternation.
She was quite composed now, but very pale. He tried to ask if she had recovered, but she cut him short impatiently. "There is nothing the matter with me. What is the meaning of all this uproar and and the firing?" For at this moment the twin reports of Jack's breech-loader again echoed through the house, this time it was answered by a fusilade from below.
So far as a fur cap would let his face be seen, he seemed dark, unkempt, and singularly wild of aspect, but there was nothing in his look to catch the Viking's memory. He said not a word, but, with a swinging stride, hastened down the glade, Estein close at his shoulder. "Where do we go?" Estein asked once. "You shall see what you shall see. Waste not your breath," replied the other impatiently.
After that I looked up impatiently at the sails, which I now regretted having lowered so hastily, and for a moment thought of hoisting the main topsail again; but recollecting that it would take me full half-a-day to accomplish, and that, at the present rate of sailing, two hours would bring me to the island, I immediately dismissed the idea.
"I am very sorry," she said, "but the packet which you have did not come from America at all. It was sealed up on board this ship at the time when I accepted the charge of its delivery. There is no letter or communication of any sort inside." "You will not object," the detective enquired, "to my opening it?" She frowned impatiently.
But soon the fish began to stop biting, and Harry, who had waited impatiently for almost five minutes for a "nibble," drew up his line and opened a locker in the stern of the boat, and, taking out a basket containing their dinner, was about to make an inroad on its contents, when he discovered a boat, rowed by a boy about his own age, shoot rapidly around a point that extended for a considerable distance out into the river, and turn toward the spot where they were anchored.
As that would be difficult, I must ask you to accept my personal assurance that you witnessed a fact, not a fiction of my imagination." "And your instrument is so perfect that it not only renders molecules and atoms but their diffusion visible? It is a microscopic impossibility. At least it is amazing." "Pshaw!" Brande exclaimed impatiently.
There they stood listening, while I held my breath. Then I heard 'Nix, mein freund, and the two went back, the naval officer's boots slipping on the gravel. They did not leave the platform together. The man from the sea bade a short farewell to the Portuguese Jew, listening, I thought, impatiently to his final message as if eager to be gone.
"Mebbe she is an' mebbe she isn't," was the cautious reply. "Have you any doubt about it?" Reynolds somewhat impatiently asked. "Wall, no, I s'pose not. I'll take yer word fer it." "But can't you see for yourself, man, what she is?" "H'm, d'ye expect me to see what you do in that picter?" "And why not?" "Simply 'cause I'm not as young as you are.
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