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As the warm weather set in he accordingly took full advantage of the free baths at the Battery. On his second day's dip, as he was leaving, a man whom he had noticed intently scanning the bathers tapped him on the arm. He was shaped like an olive, with a pair of shrewd gray eyes, and a clever, clean-shaven mouth.
"That's her game. She wants money!" Cherry shrugged her shoulders and showed her white teeth in a smile. "Mr. Marsh anticipates slightly. You may judge if he is right." Marsh started to speak, but Mildred Wayland, who had been watching him intently, was before him. "Who sent you here, Miss?" "No one sent me. If Mr. Marsh will stop his chatter, I can make myself understood." "Don't listen to her "
Lawrence Newt rose and stood at the window, with his back to Gabriel, for his thoughts grew many and strange. As he came down that morning he had stopped at Hope Wayne's, and they had talked for a long time. Gabriel had told his partner of his visit to Mrs. Fanny Dinks, and Lawrence had mentioned it to Hope Wayne. The young woman listened intently.
"That's generous in you, Barbara," she said, looking intently into the pitying dark eyes, "I'm human, you know," "Yes, I know you're human," said Mrs. Marshall, looking down at her gravely. "So are we all of us. So's Elliott. Don't forget that." With which obscure reference, entirely unintelligible to the two girls, the matter was forever dropped.
"You told me that you would raise my salary, but I've changed my mind, and have come here to decline the offer." Red Shirt, thrusting out the lamp forward, and intently staring at me, was unable to answer at the moment. He appeared blank.
The maiden shuddered as she saw the cloud falling once more like a curtain over her father's face. She grasped his hand tenderly, and, fixing her gaze intently on his, said, in beseeching tones, "Oh, father! let not the happy smile that just now lighted your features depart from them again! Believe me, we shall still be happy.
"I have often heard of you," said the Countess, as I sat down near her; "my mother often spoke of you." "Often?" I answered. "I am surprised at that." "Why are you surprised? Were you not good friends?" "Yes, for a certain time very good friends. But I was sure she had forgotten me." "She never forgot," said the Countess, looking at me intently and smiling. "She was not like that."
He had struck a vein of wealth, the true gold of love, by the side of which all the treasures of earth were as dross. And as he worked, a shadow suddenly fell across the picture. Looking quickly up, he was surprised to see Frontier Samson standing quietly by his side, looking intently upon the sketch.
At any rate, it happened that on Godfrey's first day at Scoones' he sat next to Arthur Thorburn in two classes which he attended. Godfrey listened intently and made notes; Arthur caricatured the lecturer, an art for which he had a native gift, and passed the results round the class.
He felt the need of a smoke, after all that exertion. It was while he was smoking and resting that he first became conscious of the pile of dirt as something more than the obstacle between himself and the wolf-pups. He blew a little cloud of smoke from his mouth, leaned and lifted a handful of sand, picked something out of it, and looked at it intently. He said "Humph!" skeptically.
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