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She shook her head incredulously, and replied, "You do not know the inflexible determination of my father on this point; neither can I conceive what documents you could place before him that would change his purpose."
As a matter of fact, he has mistaken the day his options expire. He believes he has until the first of August." Cameron whistled. "Are you sure?" he asked incredulously. "I don't know him personally, but his reputation for shrewdness " "And ninety-nine times out of a hundred he's as shrewd as his reputation calls for," interrupted Orcutt, "but this is the hundredth time!
"San Salvatore," said the man pointing with his lantern to a black mass curved round the water like an arm flung about it. They strained their eyes. They saw the black mass, and on the top of it a light. "San Salvatore?" they both repeated incredulously, for where were the suit-cases, and why had they been forced to get out of the fly? "Si, si San Salvatore."
Ivan was silent for several moments, and then said sneeringly: "And what do you know of the Cossacks?" "Well, very little, to be sure," Hal confessed, "though, for a short time, I had the honor of serving in a Cossack regiment." "What, you?" exclaimed Ivan incredulously. "Impossible." "No; what I say is true," said Hal.
Do you intend telling me what has brought you here?" "Certainly; the very fleetest horse I could find in the city." "Pshaw! You don't say so?" exclaimed Sir Norman, incredulously. "But I presume you had some object in taking such a gallop? May I ask what? Your anxious solicitude on my account, very likely?" "Not precisely. But, I say, Kingsley, what light is that shining through there?
"I saw one yesterday," replied A'tim. "Aye, Brother, and he saw you, too." "Else I had eaten him," added the Dog-Wolf. "A Coyote?" asked Shag incredulously; "eat a Coyote? Impossible! No animal ever ate a Coyote!" "No animal was ever so hungry as I was yesterday before Wie-sah-ke led me to the Fat Bacon."
Let me have the satisfaction of telling you, dear Edda, that I am your cousin, the long-lost son of Donna Hilda Escalante." Edda looked incredulously in his face, and endeavoured to withdraw her hand; she suspected that he had by some means become acquainted with her family history, and having concocted a story, was practising on her simplicity. "I tell you the solemn truth.
"It is by no means certain that I will ever take Peter Ivanovitch from dictation," said Miss Haldin. "No!" cried the other incredulously. "Not certain? You mean to say that you have not made up your mind?" When Miss Haldin assured her that there never had been any question of that between her and Peter Ivanovitch, the woman with the cat compressed her lips tightly for a moment.
It's for charity and good fellowship. The rules say so." "Maybe in some places. Not here!" "What is it here?" "It's a murder society, that's vat it is." McMurdo laughed incredulously. "How can you prove that?" he asked. "Prove it! Are there not fifty murders to prove it? Vat about Milman and Van Shorst, and the Nicholson family, and old Mr. Hyam, and little Billy James, and the others? Prove it!
"Look at that crazy fool!" Pinkey ejaculated, aghast. "It's Canby!" Wallie exclaimed. "Nobody else! Watch him," incredulously, "tryin' to quirt his horse across the crick!" "Isn't it the ford?" "I should say not! It looks like the place but it ain't he's mixed he'll be in a jack-pot quick if he don't back out. Onct his horse stumbles it'll never git its feet in there."
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