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"How can you jest with me, Sara?" she cried, suddenly indignant. "I am not jesting," said Sara levelly. "You you really mean what you have just said?" The puzzled look gave way to one of revulsion. A great shudder swept over her. "Leslie Wrandall must pay his brother's debt to you." "My God!" fell from the girl's stiff lips. "You you must be going mad mad!" Sara laughed softly.
She said levelly, "I'm sorry, too. I did not understand." "I didn't understand, either." Both stood silent. Then he spoke in a hurried, even a flurried way in a very low tone indeed. "But I I didn't mean to be a quitter. Look here, I didn't realize that it was just the look of things you were after and not my my " "Your money, Signor?" said Ri-Ri clearly. He grew red.
"Yes, that is what I would call it," said he levelly. "It is a more refined word than scheme." "The world will be grateful for the opportunity to bear me out in all that I have said to you," she went on. "It will cheerfully, even gleefully supply any of the little details I may have considered unnecessary or superfluous in describing the situation.
Rachel Gwyn looked at her steadily for a moment before responding to this out-and-out challenge. "I think it would be only fair of you," she began, levelly, "to tell Mr. Lapelle just what he may expect in case he marries you. Tell him for me that you will never receive a penny or an inch of land when I die. I shall cut you off completely. Tell him that.
There ensued a mock search for the thing, the two women, on all-fours, peering beneath the chairs. In that position they met levelly, eye to eye. Then without more ado rose, brushing their knees and reseating themselves. "Maybe if you would read books you would feel better," said Mrs. Peopping, scooping up a needleful of steel beads.
Silently he moved downward toward the bottom of the gorge and there where the ancient trail unfolded more levelly before him he swung along with easy strides, though always with the utmost alertness against possible dangers. A gentle breeze came down from the mountains behind him so that only his ears and his eyes were of value in detecting the presence of danger ahead.
"It did not go to Braden, Mrs. Wintermill," said Anne levelly. "It is in trust." Mrs. Wintermill smiled. "Oh, nothing will come of that," she said. "Percy says that you could bet your boots that Braden would have contested if things had been the other way round." "I'm sure I don't know," said Anne briefly.
"In other words, I can lie with a straight face," she said ironically. "I never thought she'd balk like this," said he, ignoring the remark. "I fancy you'd better go to New York," she said mercilessly. "I've got business there anyhow," muttered he. "I I think I'll go before she's up in the morning." "You can save yourself a bad hour or two if you leave before breakfast," said she levelly.
"Dead! How unfortunate! Can you tell me if he left any family; a daughter, for instance?" "Sa-ay!" Jim folded his arms on the bar and gazed levelly at his guest. "What's it to you if he did? I happen to be Geoff's executor " "Ah, that simplifies matters." The stranger drew a card-case from his pocket. "I am Mason North, of the firm of North, Manning and Gilchrist, attorneys.
Her head dropped back on her throat; she grew weak with happiness. He was her own once more, if she would but disclose in what great fear and misery she stood. But in the room behind there sounded the chink of china. Little Ellen was bending over the table, putting the tea-cosy over Richard's egg. Marion said levelly: "Well, I shall be glad of Roger's company while you're occupied with Ellen."
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