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Harlan," he went on slowly, "I'm goin' to tell you about some gold I've hid a hundred thousand dollars!" Keenly, suspicion lurking deep in his eyes, his mouth half open, seemingly ready to snap shut the instant he detected greed or cupidity in Harlan's eyes, he watched the latter.
The allusion to the nose had done away with all the constitutional doubts which had been sported so moderately at the commencement of the evening. "Treason!" howled the President: "instant punishment!" "What punishment?" asked Asmanshausen. "Drown him in the new butt of Moselle," recommended Rudesheimer. The suggestion was immediately adopted.
The question had come so suddenly, it had gone so quickly into a sensitive corner of his nature, that he lost command of himself for the instant, yet had little idea why the command was lost. He touched the fingers on his arm affectionately. "Like to look at you like to look at you? Why, of course we all like to look at you. You are very fine and handsome and interesting."
He won to victory over the bodies of his enemies. That is MacNair's idea of greatness." Lapierre nodded, and when he looked into the face of the girl he noted that her eyes flashed with purpose. "Tell me," she continued almost sharply, "you are not afraid of MacNair?" For just an instant Lapierre hesitated. "No!" he answered. "I am not afraid."
I sat and wondered if there was anything I could do but go and shoot that man. And I asked myself: Ought I not at least to go and get the manuscript from that accursed place this instant? Ought I not to have taken it then and there? But see the utter misery of my situation, the abject shame of it suppose they were to take the thing!
If he is put into a closed basket, he will not be still for an instant, but turn round and round without ceasing. If he is at liberty, he will seem to imagine that something is lost, and he will eagerly search round the room, and particularly every corner of it, with strange violence and indecision.
When I asked the history of the affair, I was told that, in former days, a young girl of the family, when she was about sixteen years old, used always to be followed about by a tom-cat, who was reared in the house, so much so that the two were never separated for an instant.
'I was ready to help him on with his coat when you rang. 'Well, beg him to step in here one instant, said I. The man went out; and I couldn't have counted ten before Mr. Sands appeared. I pointed to the empty case that was open on the table, and explained in about a dozen words I wanted to finish before Madam arrived! that Mrs.
Pierre, one instant of that girl would give romance to a man's whole life." "This girl? This Jack of ours?" "He hasn't seen it! Why, if I hadn't seen years ago that she had tied her hands and turned her heart over to you, I'd have been down on my knees to her a thousand times, begging her for a smile, a shadow of a hope."
We were surrounded the next instant by the press of talking, laughing guests passing down to the door, and I could do nothing but drop her hand and leave her with a composed face, and my brain feeling literally on fire.
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