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She paused a moment, locking her two hands under her head, and assuming a more comfortable position on the pillow. "He asked me that same question again, father, and I said, 'Yes. It's to be soon. We're going to live at Four Forks, in his own house; and next winter we're going to Sacramento. I suppose it's all right, father, eh?"
Meanwhile, breathe not a syllable to a living soul. If I were you, I'd let Mr. Grant understand that we regard him as rather outside the scope of our inquiry. This beer is very good for a country village. You know a good thing when you see it, I expect. Pity I don't smoke, or I'd join you in a pipe. I must get a move on, now, or that fat landlord will be locking me out. Good night! Yes.
He must have let himself out, and, locking the door on the outside, put the key in his pocket, and so made his way out of the house.
"I hear and obey," answered Abu al-Hasan, and locking his shop and taking with him the girl he went, by a way different from that whereby he came, to Ali bin Bakkar's house, where he left her standing at the door and walked in. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Night,
Blaine finally saw his mistake, which he virtually admitted in the speech delivered by him at his home immediately after the election; but it was then too late to undo the mischief that had been done. It was like locking the stable door after the horse had been stolen. That Mr.
So Gabriel waited until the boy came up, and then dodged him into a corner, and rapped him over the head with his lantern five or six times, just to teach him to modulate his voice. And as the boy hurried away with his hand to his head, singing quite a different sort of tune, Gabriel Grub chuckled very heartily to himself, and entered the churchyard, locking the gate behind him.
The firmness of her resolution expressed itself by locking the case again, without restoring the canister to its hiding-place. Providing herself next with a knife, she sat down in a corner between the bedroom door on one side, and a cupboard in an angle of the wall on the other and began the work of destruction by scraping off the paper label.
I think his first purpose was to turn and run, but the door closed behind him, and he doubtless heard, as we all did, the sound of the bolt being thrust in its place, thus locking him in. 'I I beg your pardon, he stammered, 'I expected to meet Mr. Webster. As he said this, I pressed the button under my table, and was instantly enshrouded with light.
In the latter case, the food receptacles appear, and on the lower part of the raised doors of the corresponding boxes may be seen metal covers for the food receptacles projecting at right angles to the doors, while on the lower edge of each door is an iron staple used to receive a sliding bar which could be operated from the observer's bench as a means of locking the doors after they had been closed.
M. Étienne, with the rapid murmur, "If I look at you, nab him," turned the door-handle. But M. Peyrot had prepared against surprise by the simple expedient of locking his door. He heard us, too, for he stopped in the very middle of a prolonged yawn and held himself absolutely still. M. Étienne called out softly: "Peyrot!" "Who is it?" "I want to speak with you about something important."
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