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As the last wrapping was stripped from it, on the table before them lay a small steel model, perhaps three feet high a weird-looking thing in the miniature shape of a man, designed along lines that only a cubist could have conceived jointed, mobile, truly a contrivance at which to marvel. Brent gazed incredulously at the strange thing. "An automaton!" he exclaimed.
"This Indian is accompanied by Fathers Chaumonot and Jacques. It is not impossible that they have relieved La Chaudière Noire of his tomahawk and scalping-knife. And besides, this is France; even a Turk is harmless here. Monsieur the Black Kettle speaks French and is a devout Catholic." "A Catholic?" incredulously.
"Wait until you really love," she said tremulously. He laughed incredulously. "I am glad that it is not true. . . . I am glad," she said. "Oh, Phil! Phil! for a single one of the chances we had again and again and again! and we did not know we did not know! And yet there were moments "
Scarcely had the last word left her lips than Eleanor, straightening herself with a sudden jerk, gazed with eyes that fairly blazed with excitement at Margaret. "Martelli!" she exclaimed incredulously. "Not Margherita Martelli!" "Yes, I am quite sure that was the name, because I thought at the time how very much prettier the Italian way of saying Margaret was than the English.
"And having the Cow-pens against them too 'tis sad!" "Zooks!" cried the bull in disguise, with a snort. "The Cow-pens ain't against 'em when the French are coming!" "Why haven't they sent word to the soldiers?" demanded another of the cow-drivers suspiciously. "The soldiers?" she exclaimed incredulously.
'Yes, I do mean to tell you so, replied Sikes. 'The old lady has had 'em these twenty years; and if you were to give 'em five hundred pound, they wouldn't be in it. 'But do you mean to say, my dear, remonstrated the Jew, 'that the women can't be got over? 'Not a bit of it, replied Sikes. 'Not by flash Toby Crackit? said the Jew incredulously. 'Think what women are, Bill,
"Did Carlyon get you to come and tell me so?" He turned and peered through the darkness at the man beside him. "You never got up here alone?" he said incredulously. "Oh, yes. It wasn't difficult. I was guided by the noise you made. How many men have you?" "Ten or twelve; not more all Goorkhas." "Good! We must quit this place at once. It will be a death-trap when the moon rises.
"I'm happy enough," he said simply. "I've got all I want." "All?" echoed Piers incredulously. Crowther was smiling. He lifted his face to the night sky. "Yes, thank God, all!" he said. As Miss Whalley had predicted, Ina Rose's wedding was a very grand affair indeed. Everyone who was anyone attended it, and a good many besides.
The coat and hat slipped from her arm; she looked at the window; the curtain still moved, as if a hand had but recently touched it. She stared at it incredulously. He had gone; he would have none of her assistance then; preferred She listened, but caught only the rustling of the heavy silk. When?
She held out, and Carol incredulously took, a thin gray pamphlet entitled "McGinerty's Mother-in-law." It was the sort of farce which is advertised in "school entertainment" catalogues as: Riproaring knock-out, 5 m. 3 f., time 2 hrs., interior set, popular with churches and all high-class occasions. Carol glanced from the scabrous object to Vida, and realized that she was not joking.
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