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He waited, palpably waited, but Arlee continued to peel a tangerine with absorption, and the question had to come from him. He put it with an air of indolent amusement, yet she felt the intent interest in leash. "And what did you think I was like, chère petite mademoiselle?" "Very handsome for one thing, Monsieur! You see, I owe you a compliment for calling me such a pretty name as this!"
He was in leash to the French school of which de Maupassant was the outstanding luminary, only I did not know it at the time. "Charming," I exclaimed quite enthusiastically. "I like this. Let me see anything else you have. Do you write short stories?"
There at Erith is a steam yacht ready to start at a moment's notice; she has steam up now, one hundred pounds pressure to the square inch in her boilers; her captain's waiting, her crew ready a greyhound in leash; she can do fifteen knots an hour without being pressed. "If one started now one could breakfast in France, at Boulogne, let us say, or Dieppe; one could lunch at St. Malo or St.
His heart also delighted in the puppy, leaping and abortively barking at his side. He kissed his father good-bye as the train approached, and was following the others, with the little dog straining at his leash, when his onward progress was suddenly arrested, another grimy little hand tugged at the leash.
I knew that I should hear it again some time, and all these weeks I have listened for it, until this moment. Mr. Blaine, this is the man!" "Anita, you have lost your mind!" With the shock of the girl's appearance, a steely calm had come to the Englishman, and although a tremor ran through his tones, he held them well in leash. "My poor child, you do not know what you are saying.
What he had failed to specify was that the dining-car had been left, by divers defections at the junctions passed, the last car in our train, and that it was now straining at its leash in wild leaps and bounds. When once comparatively secure in one's chair, the combat with the lunch began. Mrs.
I was making for Cattolica, but I missed my way in seeking to shorten it. I am now returning by the high-road." The explanation satisfied him on that point, and being satisfied, he asked me when I had left Pesaro. A moment I hesitated. "Late last night," said I at last. He looked, at me, my foolish hesitation having perhaps unslipped a suspicion that was straining at its leash.
Fail to do this, and misfortune will surely overtake me." The father promised to do as the son said, and then the lad turned himself into a greyhound, and he was so sleek and handsome that the man could not admire him enough; but about his neck was an old, worn leash that did not look as though it were worth a penny. It seemed a pity to leave it on the neck of such a handsome dog.
But the next morning I had to give Capi his lesson, I took him in my arms and while I gently kissed him on his cold nose, I explained to him what he had to do; poor doggy! how he looked at me, how he listened! I then put his leash in Allen's hand and he followed the two boys obediently, but with a forlorn air.
Do you suppose that mere walls of steel and granite could withstand the fury of such a mob as this great city now holds, straining at its leash? Horrible things will happen in New York one of these days, and we will not have long to wait for it either. Discipline of the crudest sort, and a leader, is all that is needed to start a great army of destruction in motion!
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