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Frantic to think what better to do, she waltzed with him, while he described the colonel of the departing regiment as such a martinet that to ask him to delay his going would only hasten it; waltzed on when she saw her grandmother discover the knife's absence and telegraph her a look of contemptuous wonder. But ah, how time was flying! Even now Kincaid must be returning hitherward, licensed!
When she opened them a woman a fat, housewifely, comfortable looking woman was standing before the cheese counter. She spoke to the cheese man. Once more his sharp knife descended and he was offering the possible customer a sample. She picked it off the knife's sharp tip, nibbled thoughtfully, shook her head, and passed on. A great, glorious world of hope opened out before Jennie.
The bullets from the alien craft were flying wide. The fusillade from the Petrel was evidently interfering with the enemy's marksmanship. "No expert riflemen there," Gregory commented. Dickie shook her head. "A knife's their long suit," she answered. "I never saw them shoot much before. Don't believe they "
"I don't care whether it's likely or not," Tavernake answered hotly; "it's true! The knife's somewhere in the road there it fell up against the railings." They crossed the road together and searched. There were no signs of the weapon. Tavernake peered over the railings.
"He's bleedin' for his country, is 'Biades, if you really want to know; and if you was helpful you'd lend us that knife o' yours." "What for, missy?" "Why, to take off the injured limb. 'Bert's knife's no good since the fore-part o' the week, when he broke the blade prizin' up limpets an' never guessing how soon this War'd be upon us." "I did," maintained 'Bert. "I was gettin' in food supplies."
"This knife's gum-blunt, Dan." "Ef stickin' out cable don't wake ye, guess you'd better hire a boy o' your own," said Dan, muddling about in the dusk over the tubs full of trawl-line lashed to windward of the house. "Oh, Harve, don't ye want to slip down an' git 's bait?" "Bait ez we are," said Disko. "I mistrust shag-fishin' will pay better, ez things go."
The servant gal, who ought to have kept the knife in its proper place, leaves it lying about in the damp, and lets the blade get rusty. Then, instead of telling her mistress, she gets Cole to put it on the stone, or else does it herself, and they keeps grinding away till the knife's spoilt, and then, to end the matter, one of 'em chucks it into the pond, and so it gets lost."
You have been disdaining me from magnificent New York heights for some time. Do you think that I am not enjoying this?" "I cannot imagine anyone else who would enjoy it so much." And she knew the answer was daring, but would have made it if he had held a knife's point at her throat. He got up, and walking to the door drew it back on its crazy hinges and managed to shut it close.
'The worst of a black sheep like me is, I'm such an infernal sinner, that Providence!... But both surgeons gave me their word of honour that there was a chance. A chance! But it's the end of me if Emmy.... Good God! no! the knife's enough; don't let her be killed! It would be murder. Here am I talking! I ought to be praying.
You don't cut ropes with your thumb-nails, do you? Of course it was his knife." "And have you got it still, Tom?" Here Tom began to get shy. As long as it was only information that the captain wanted to get at he didn't so much mind being cross-examined, but directly it looked as if his knife was in peril he bristled up. "That'll do," said he gruffly; "my knife's nothink to do with you."