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"Yes, yes, yes," cried the professor, putting on his fez again, and making a vicious dab at the tassel, which was tickling his neck, but subsided quietly between his shoulders after it had done swinging. "He has something to say to everything. Too much talk. It wouldn't do. The Baggara are as keen as their swords: they'd see through it directly." "Then I'd dye it blacker," said Frank.
Four days had passed, four miserable days, relieved only by a few pleasant hours with Dorothy and the enjoyment he always found in watching her keen delight in every entertainment.
It is in stories like these that we find the keen sense of what is beautiful in nature, the sense of "man's brotherhood with bird and beast, star and flower," which has become the mark of "Celtic" literature. We cannot put it into words, perhaps, for it is something mystic and strange, something that takes us nearer fairyland and makes us see that land of dreams with clearer eyes.
Here he turned round and bowed to the officers, and by keen eyes might have been observed to bow through the windows also to the vessel, which lay a mile off in the harbour. "There will not, at any rate for the present, be any Fixed Period for human life in Britannula. That dream has been dreamed, at any rate for the present. Whether in future ages such a philosophy may prevail, who shall say?
"He is a young man who has been well brought up, he comes of very good stock, and his age makes it most improbable that he can be a professional criminal." "Obviously, obviously!" murmured the magistrate, not a little embarrassed by the keen logic of the detective. "And now let us consider the motive or motives of the crime," Juve continued. "Why did the man commit this murder?"
I was amazed by these words, and still more by the keen interest Mrs Levret showed in the subject. "But what can I do in the matter, even if it be as you say?" was my next question. "Well, ma'am, they give me to understand that the young man must be made to confess. He will never have any peace until he does. It seems to me you might get him to confess."
Dawson told his story, and the naval officer's keen kindly face grew stern and hard. "Germans I can respect," said he, "even those that pretend to be our friends. But one of our own folk to sell us like this ugh! Take the vermin away; Dawson, and stamp upon it." We stood talking for a few moments, and then Dawson broke in with a question.
He tore away the lattice as quickly and quietly as he could, and, with one keen glance round at the dark night, he thrust his head through the narrow frame. He found it was just possible to crush through; and, after a minute's struggle, his feet rested upon the pantry floor.
Finally, after a last attempt, which was foiled as easily as were its predecessors, he shut off his controls and turned to his companion with a grin. "I didn't think I could get away with it they're keen, that gang but I had to keep at it as long as it would have done us any good." "Wouldn't it do us any good now?"
A tall and thin gentleman, who had come out of the inn without a hat, was surveying the dispute with a keen delight. He was past the middle age. His clothes bore that mark which distinguishes his world from the other, but his features were so striking as to hold my attention unwittingly. After a while he withdrew his glass, cast one look at me which might have meant anything, and spoke up.
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