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"Don't trouble yourself to talk about your days," interrupted the pirate; "they will be too few to be worth speaking of, if you do not put yourself under our orders again. You are a deserter; and as a deserter you go back with me, unless you choose to go as a comrade." "And what might I expect that your orders would be, if I went with you?" "You know very well that we want you for a guide.

Why was it that everything she touched seemed to become contaminated? "There's no use staying any longer," she said. "Howard doesn't like it." "I didn't say so," he interrupted. "There's something about the place that grows on you. If I felt I could afford it " "At any rate," declared Honora, trying to control her voice, "I've decided, now I've seen it a second time, that I don't want it.

Nesbit up-stairs; and as Violet followed, she heard the aunt observing that Percival Fotheringham was more bearish than ever; and that it was intolerable to see him encouraged in his free-and-easy manner when he had thrown away all his prospects. 'For poor John's sake, began Lady Martindale. 'For his own, interrupted Theodora.

I told him that was rather hard on James. You ought to have heard him. For him James is the hero of the piece and Jeff the villain." "Half the people in this town have got that damn fool notion," Captain Chunn interrupted violently. "More than half, I should say."

"Colonel," he said earnestly, with full appreciation of what was passing through Morrison's mind, "I hope no trouble will come of this. If I had only known the vindictiveness of this man " He was interrupted by a genially objecting hand and a laugh which Morrison was somehow able to make lighthearted. "Oh, that will be all right. Harris will get him never fear."

I had taken the precaution before we left Berlin to find out their names, and, as they left us, I gave each of them a gold cigarette case inscribed with his name and the date. I started to speak French to one of these staff officers, but he interrupted me by saying in perfect English, "You do not have to speak French to me.

The Orderly-Sergeant interrupted the discussion by announcing: "Here, Shorty, you're one to go with Si. The detail is made by the Colonel's orders as a compliment to the good work you boys have been doing, and which the Colonel knows about."

The next day " "The next day," Henri interrupted, "it was my turn to applaud you. I had been deprived a long time of the pleasures of the theatre, of which I am very fond, and I began by going to the Comedie Francaise, where you played, that night, the role of Helene in 'Mademoiselle de la Seigliere. Do you remember?" "Do I remember!

"You are not a church-goer, sir?" he questioned sourly. Villon answered him sweetly. "No, old Queernabs, unless there's an alms-box to open or a matter of gold plate to pilfer." Guy Tabarie hurriedly interrupted him with a warning cry of "Cave!" and a significant glance at the strangers, but Villon derided his fears.

They were both dear, dear friends of mine." My Aunt Caroline's harsher voice interrupted her. "Gadzooks, ma'am!" she cried, as she approached us, "I have never in my life laid eyes upon such beauty as your daughter's. You will have to take her home, Mrs. Manners, to do her justice. You owe it her, ma'am. Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly!"