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After this I called Tupac and Anahuac and told them what I wished done, and they took a score of their men and forthwith began to build, in a corner of the hall beside the throne, a chamber measuring some ten feet each way, of the oblong blocks of gold which were piled up in the pyramid, and while they were doing this I called the soldiers before me and told them, speaking in their own dialect, that if they were faithful to me until the end of the war, each man should have one ounce weight of gold paid to him every month, and one ounce more for each of his comrades that he could persuade to join us, and for this night's work I would give them each a wedge of gold of the weight of two ounces, which was more money than all that they had earned in their lives before; and when I had promised this they went on their knees and swore faith to me and destruction to their hated Spanish masters.
Truxton removed the lamp from the one chair in the room, placed it upon the window-sill, and sat down, pulling the chair around so that he faced Conniston. "You're goin' to work with me in the mornin'. Now, what do you know?" His manner was abrupt, his voice curt. Conniston felt a trifle ill at ease under the man's piercing gaze, which seemed to be measuring him. "Not a great deal, I'm afraid.
It was as if she were measuring the extent of my loyalty before she committed herself again to speech. "Why did he come?" she asked presently. "He wanted to know if I knew where you were." "You didn't know," she said. "I didn't or I wouldn't have lost three days in looking for you. But I made a good shot, anyhow, when I came to Bruges."
He kept looking through the window, over the shoulder of M. Ledoux, at a slender tree which stood at the end of a lane, opposite to the inn, and seemed to be measuring its distance from his extended arm and secretly wishing that, since the subject had been introduced, propriety did not forbid a little speculative pistol-practice. Newman was in no humor to enjoy good company.
Soles, do you remember measuring some footsteps imprinted on the mud at the wood of Warroch on November 17 , by my orders? Soles remembered the circumstance perfectly. 'Look at that paper; is that your note of the measurement? Soles verified the memorandum.
He awoke with a throbbing brow, and some sickness; but with a sense of delight at the heart, for he had found an opiate, and prescribed its quantity. He drained the liquor away from the poppy leaves, and carried it to the hut. Measuring with great care a small quantity, he lifted the girl's head and placed it to her lips. She drank it mechanically.
The acme of extravagance was not arrived at, however, until the poor miner came to purchase auxiliaries to his rocker. This "iron" is simply a plate of thin sheet-iron, measuring 18 inches by 20 inches, perforated with round holes to let the loose dirt pass through. I priced one of them, out of curiosity, at a carpenter's shop in San Francisco this morning 2 and a half dollars.
"Nothing could stand up under that." Mahon appealed to his wife. "Help us, Helen, it's got past us." The sudden thunder of hoofs along the river side of the shack drew the two Policemen to the door. Three horses, the broncho in the lead, were climbing the grade. The broncho started out on the trestle, head bent, measuring each step, moving from sleeper to sleeper.
"To climb three stories with the tips of one's fingers and toes, however, and by means of a notched iron on the bare face of a wall, is a herculean and hazardous undertaking." While he stood, measuring the altitude with his eyes, Nick heard Cervera returning. Then a great bunch of flaming paper came flying down the well, and the detective was forced to leap aside to escape it.
The cloudy sky hung silently over the dirty yard and over the cleanly-dressed man with the pointed beard, who was walking about there, measuring distances with his steps and with his sharp eyes. On the roof of the old house a crow perched and croaked, thrusting its head now backwards, now forwards.
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