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Captain Lawrence listened with knitted brows to his nephew's narration of all that had taken place in the night, and shook his head. "It's miserable work, my boy," he said; "so piteous for the poor women. Well, perhaps good will come out of evil, and it may be the breaking up of a notorious smuggling gang."
When he had opened his eyes, that morning, his overpowering desire had been that not an hour of daylight should pass before he should be left alone, and yet now his heart sank at the feeling that he was here and no one was with him. When the captain had approached within a few yards of the great stone face, his brows were slowly knitted. "This is carelessness," he said to himself.
He said everybody did those things, because that was the way to make money, and everybody wanted to make money. He called it competition. And then I asked him why he came to the church of Jesus, and he ordered me out of his house." Dr. Vince was listening with knitted brows. "And what do you propose to do now," he asked. "I don't know, sir. I suppose I shall have to expose him."
"She used sometimes to call me, 'My old father, but it was I who ought to have called her the mother, the true mother of my soul. "Just one month ago, she came to me for the last time; she gave me with a sweet smile, these worsted gloves, which she had knitted herself, and then recommended me with much respect and kindness to thank our Lord, who sent them me!
Elisaveta asked: "How is one to kill a beast who has grown iron and steel nails, and who has built his lair in the town? It is he who does the killing, and there's no end in sight to his ferocity." Nadezhda knitted her eyebrows, pressed her hands, and stubbornly repeated: "We shall kill him, we shall kill him." The sisters stayed to lunch.
Once a van of knitted stuffs, always the gray, corded and bound into bales, rumbled by, close enough to graze and send her stumbling back. She stood for a moment watching it lumber up alongside a dock. It was dusk when she emerged from the rather sinister end of West Street into Battery Park, receding in a gracious new-green curve from the water.
The elderly men, or other men when smartness is desired, wear a white turban, which is fairly large and is well tied on the head. Males in the Siemship of Nongstoin and in the North-Western corner of the district wear knitted worsted caps which are often of a red colour. These are sold at Nongstoin market at about 8 or 9 annas each.
He gave the girl his coat and hat, and then watched her slip off her knitted hood and her cloak. Her eyes shone with returning laughter, and her cheeks were flushed with blood. Looking upon her, the young evangelist lost his look of exaltation, his eyes grew soft and his limbs relaxed. His silence was no longer rapt it was the silence of delicious, drowsy reverie.
But, behind all his fair white thought of Nance, was always the black background of the whole circumstances of the case, and the grim fact of Tom Hamon's death, and he pondered this last with knitted brows from every point of view, and strove in vain for a gleam of light on the darkness. Could the Doctor be mistaken, and was Tom's death the simple result of his fall over the Coupée?
Buckland was in no mood for conversation; he smoked for a quarter of an hour whilst Sidwell resumed her writing. 'Of course you haven't seen Peak? fell from him at length. His sister looked at him before replying. 'Yes. He called this afternoon. 'But who told him you were here? His brows were knitted, and he spoke very abruptly.
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