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That's the theory, but I notice he turned down a mining man who wanted to get him to run him into the hills on Monday. Said he hadn't time. The showfer biz is a bluff, looks like." The nester made no answer. His eyes, narrowed to slits, were gazing out of the window absently. Presently he came from deep thought to ask Yeager to hand him the map he would find in his inside coat pocket.
It seems to them as if, out west, the war of life was still conducted in the open air, and on free barbaric terms; as if it had not yet been narrowed into parlours, nor begun to be conducted, like some unjust and dreary arbitration, by compromise, costume, forms of procedure, and sad, senseless self-denial.
Before they were half way around the oval the fourth man had dropped out, so the race had narrowed down to these three. Suddenly Bert increased his stride a little, and spurted ahead. A wild shout went up from the spectators, and those who had not already done so leaped to their feet. "Wilson!
He will pass the remainder of his days under my roof, with my good wife to take care of him, and my children to remind him of the brighter side of life." So the letter ended. I put it away, and went out. The solitude of my room forewarned me unendurably of the coming solitude in my own life. My interests in this busy world were now narrowed to one object to the care of my mother's failing health.
Verisschenzko's Calmuck eyes narrowed. "And does this result of the fusion of snake charmers figure in the family history? I believe I have met him his name is Ferdinand, is it not, and he is, or was, in some business in Constantinople?" "That is the creature he was brought up at Ardayre as though he were the heir, and poor John turned out of things.
Then the trail followed the river valley further north to a point where the river curved to the west, and its valley narrowed and became impassable for the supply wagons. To avoid this obstacle, the wagons took the dubious detour north across the Jornada del Muerto. Sixty miles of desert, very little water, and numerous hostile Apaches.
The land has been raised and has sunk again; the straits have been narrowed or widened; many of the islands may have been joined and dissevered again; violent floods have again and again devastated the mountains and plains, carrying out to sea hundreds of forest trees, as has often happened during volcanic eruptions in Java; and it does not seem improbable that once in a thousand, or ten thousand years, there should have occurred such a favourable combination of circumstances as would lead to the migration of two or three land animals from one island to another.
Travers, who was doing his best, and lighted a French cigarette. "There must be some way," said Sara Lee. "If they need help and I have read you Mabel Andrews' letter then I should think they'd be glad to send me." "They would be, of course," he said. "But the fact is there's been some trouble about spies, and " Henri's eyes narrowed. "Spies! And they think I'm a spy?"
Miss Melbury, having gone forward quite in the rear of the rest, was one of the first to return, and the excitement being contagious, she ran laughing towards Marty, who still stood as a hand-post to guide her; then, passing on, she flew round the fatal bush where the undergrowth narrowed to a gorge. Marty arrived at her heels just in time to see the result.
Once we get hold of them and understand them and know what end they are to serve, we may get an idea of the kind of man obviously suitable for handling them." "Like B45," said Hillyard. "Yes! The search will be narrowed to one kind of man. Oh, we shall be much nearer, if only we get the tubes if only the Germans in Madrid don't guess this letter's gone astray to us."
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