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Buerre! That's the word buttah." Robin and Dank were staring at the headline as if fascinated. Having successfully managed the butter, Hobbs at once restored his attention to the headline, reading it aloud, albeit both of the young men were capable of reading French at sight. He translated with great profundity. "'Miss Blithers Denies Report. Signed Statement Mysteriously Received.
"For, as I was about to say, reflect upon the extreme improbability nay, the utter impossibility that er such a person could visit the Islands unnoticed and actually spend three days on Garrison Hill undetected by any save yourself. Nay, if we grant the miracle of her arrival, who is to assure us that she has not by this time as mysteriously vanished?
But on his writing-table lay his cane, broken into pieces, and my own copy of the thousand lines torn into little bits. What more exciting than for the whole school to learn by rumour the next morning that all the prefects of Bramhall House had been mysteriously withdrawn from their Olympian class-rooms to a special cabinet meeting under the presidency of Stanley, the gorgeous house-captain?
They were quietly engaged in their various industrial pursuits, dreaming probably of no danger, until the advance of this army, coming upon them mysteriously, no one knew whither, like a plague, or a tornado, or a great conflagration, drove them from their homes, and sent them flying about the country in all directions in terror and despair.
"I've heard him pray," said Miss Junk, mysteriously "yes, you may look, for there ain't no prayer in the crafty eye of him but pray he do, and asks to be kept from danger " "Danger?" "Danger's the word, for I won't deceive you, no, not if you paid me better wages than the old man do give and he's as near as the paring of an inion.
"Only this, that they know a good deal that we don't." "Well, what do they know or say they know?" "Look here, Stanninghame," said Rainsford, rather mysteriously, "has Hazon ever told you any of his up-country experiences?" "A few yes." "Did he ever suggest you should take a trip with him?" "We have even discussed that possibility."
But always in some group.... I understand that Hill told you what a couple of donkeys we made of ourselves on your account?" Anxiously he scanned her face, silver-clear in the moonlight, for signs of ridicule. But Arlee's smile was very sweet. It made the sandy-haired young man's heart quicken mysteriously. "He told me," she said. "I think it was fine of you." "Fine?
Farther on were mountains covered with heavy forests of pine, through which the winds sighed and whispered mysteriously, while at their feet the little streams lingered lovingly long enough to catch the whispered secrets, and bear them away, laughing and singing, on their journey toward the great sea.
In this house it was probably in a slum, certainly in a mean street one stepped direct from the pavement into a small kitchen, where an elderly man sat smoking a long clay pipe. A covered stairway rose mysteriously from one side of this apartment into the two bedrooms above.
"O," said Sir Frederick, laughing, "we know the owner of Westburnflat well a wild lad, that knows little difference between his neighbour's goods and his own; but, withal, very honest to his principles: he would disturb nothing belonging to Ellieslaw." "Besides," said Mr. Vere, smiling mysteriously, "he had other tow on his distaff last night.
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