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It is my living sentiment and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and independence forever." That was all of the piece. I gave the whole thing in a mouthful, and started for my seat, got halfway there and remembered I had forgotten to bow, turned, went back to the platform, bowed with a jerk, started again for my seat, and hearing some one laugh, ran.
Then the panel of the cabin door pushed open, and Vye sat up with a jerk as Ras Hume, his head banded with a skin-core covering, entered. The officer waved his hand at Vye with the air of one turning over a problem. "You were entirely right. And he's all yours, Hume." Vye looked from one to the other. With Hume's tape in official hands why wasn't the Hunter under restraint?
Miss Jemima threw up her hands with a little jerk of wonder, and gazed at her brother with incredulous surprise. "Where is it all?" was her next enquiry. "Some in England, and some in America." "It's not all in money, of course?" she asked, in doubtful tones. "No," said her brother, opening his eyes: "it's in all sorts of ways. A great deal of it is in house property.
Burke, with a characteristic gesture, pulled her glasses forward with a jerk and settled them firmly back again on the bridge of her nose. She surveyed the speaker critically as she questioned: "But you don't seem to show the usual symptoms collar buttoned behind, and all that." "I am sorry to disappoint you, Madam, but I never travel in clerical uniform. Can't afford it."
He raised his voice with his neighbors and cursed. As Steinmetz passed him he gave a little jerk of the head toward the castle. The jerk of the head might have been due to an inequality of the road, but it might also convey an appointment. The keen, haggard face of Michael Roon showed no sign of mutual understanding. And the carriage rattled on through the stricken village.
But goodness gracious, Peter, I can't stop gossiping here any longer. You have no idea what a care seven babies are." With a jerk of her tail off flew Jenny Wren, and Peter hurried back to tell Johnny Chuck all he had found out about Hummer the Hummingbird. Butcher the Shrike was not the only newcomer in the Old Orchard.
"Don' yo', a w'ite man, be 'fraid ob ole voodoo house," advised the mulatto, still speaking respectfully. Afraid? Of course not. Relying on his muscle and his agility, Jack stepped ahead. By a sudden jerk of his arm the mulatto guide shook out the flame in the lantern. "Here, you! What are you about?" growled Jack Benson, wheeling like a flash upon his escort.
He paused, then seemed to pull the words out with a jerk: "I won't let him have any disrespect for his mother, and " He got up and tramped about the room. "Damn it! I don't want to lose his good opinion, myself." Her face turned darkly red. "Oh," she cried, passionately, "'opinion'! What difference does his 'opinion' make to me? A mother is a mother. And I love him!
She let go with one hand. There was a shriek, a groan, a shower of rocks descended as Joy slipped down that steep wall. For Bet, everything went black. She grew faint and closed her eyes, then suddenly pulled herself together, and looked over. The rope was taut. It had held. A second shower of rocks came from the trail, started by the sudden jerk on the saddle.
Ripley, looking back hastily, hurried into a saloon, and he had scarcely closed the door when Biff entered after him, in time to see his man standing at the telephone, receiver in hand. It was the work of but an instant to grab Ripley by the arm and jerk him away from the 'phone.
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