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A glance at the table plastered with silver and gold showed me that they were playing with a five-franc minimum. Anastasius drew a handful of louis from his pocket and staked one. I staked a five-franc piece. The cards were dealt, the banker exposed a nine, the highest number, and the croupier's flat spoon swept the table. A murmur arose. The banker was having the luck of Satan.
And as more minutes passed and the wounded man still breathed, a murmur of wonderment passed among the cannibals and the men of Nunes. Yuara should be dead, yet he was not even paralyzed. Such a thing had never before been known in this bush. Lourenço touched Pedro's arm. "Find a spot where we can make camp," he said. "I must stay here to speak to the wild men if words are needed."
He had friends, too friends he could not afford to lose friends who could not afford to lose him. Doubtless his murder would be avenged in due course; but He grimaced wrily to himself in the darkness, and tried once more to ease his cramped limbs. From outside came the murmur of voices. He could just see the shoulder of one of his guards at the entrance and the steel glint of a rifle-barrel.
Then motioning the crowd away with a high and haughty sweep of his arm, he advanced in front of the nation with the air of a king, and spoke in a voice louder than the murmur of admiration that ran through the multitude. "Men of the Lenni Lenape!" he said, "my race upholds the earth! Your feeble tribe stands on my shell!
Martel was strong and active, it was true, but there he was a drinker, and a Frenchman at that, and drink doesn't run to wind, and a Frenchman doesn't run to fists. Very well say twenty minutes then, and if he George Hamon did not make Monsieur Martel regret ever having come to Sercq, he would deserve all he got and would take it without a murmur.
The wind there was generally a wind on the heath stirred the fir-trees and the bushes into a soft movement and a faint murmur of sound. A very acute and alert ear might perhaps have caught another sound footfalls on the road, a good long way behind them. The two spies, or scouts, did not hear them; their attention was elsewhere.
His uncle, loving him as a son, and whose union had been blessed with no children, forgave his follies and liquidated his debts without a murmur, but shook his head frequently in a doubtful manner, as rumors reached him of some new exploit in which William had been a leading spirit, or some fresh scandal in which he was a prominent participant.
"I'll play along! What more can you do for us?" "I've no idea," said Morgan placidly. "Such things have to work themselves out, with a little prodding, of course. But one of my Talents says the lightning-calculator Talent is the one who'll do you the most good soonest. I'd suggest " There was a murmur of voices from the cabinet room. The door opened and King Humphrey came out.
After all, it must be admitted, however, that the measures they took and the men they secured, were strangely unequal to the circumstances of the case, when the details became known; in fact, there was a general murmur of surprise among the public, at the contemptible nature of the whole affair. But let me relate the circumstances accompanying the discovery of M. du Maine's pitiable treachery.
He loved her best, she thought; and yet dared she to murmur such treacherous criticism ever so softly? what was the man worth whom a woman inferior to herself did not value? The sentiment which lurks more or less in all animate nature that of not desiring the undesired of others was lively as a passion in the supersubtle, epicurean heart of Eustacia.
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