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"Why don't you go?" she murmured, with a nod of her head towards the stairs, and with slightly heightened color, Miss Ray smiled acceptance at the captain, and, following Sandy's lead through the labyrinth of steamer-chairs about them, tripped briskly away over the open deck, and there, at the very foot of the steep, ladder-like ascent, became aware of Mr.
'Yes, there is a resemblance, but it is all a mistake. I travelled as far as Shillingsworth last night with Mr. Mark Wylder: he was perfectly well. This can't be he. But there was a terrible impression on Mr. Jos. Larkin's mind that this certainly was he, and with a sulky nod to the policeman, he walked darkly down to the vicar's house.
Cornishmen and Hungarians and Americans, going with their dinner-buckets to work, met him and received each a nod or a word of greeting from this splendidly built young Hermes in miners' slops, who was to many of them, in their fancy, a deliverer from the slavery which the Consolidated was ready to force upon them.
Tanberry for presuming to think she needed to be warned against the charms of this serenading lady-killer, who was the property of another girl. "You must keep him away, I think," ventured Mrs. Tanberry, gently. At that Betty turned to her and said, sharply: "I will. After this, please let us never speak of him again." A slow nod of the other's turbaned head indicated the gravest acquiescence.
You've turned up, plain, plumb providential for all concerned. I mistrust, though, there's ruther few things you kin do. Ain't thet so?" "I can make it lively for you and your crowd when we get ashore," said Harvey, with a vicious nod, murmuring vague threats about "piracy," at which Troop almost not quite smiled. "Excep' talk. I'd forgot that.
"That's precisely it," Rosebud nodded, thoroughly enjoying the other's blank manner. "Gee! I hadn't tho't of it." The girl broke into a laugh, and Seth, after smiling faintly in response, relapsed into serious thought. Rosebud eyed him doubtfully for some moments. "You're not glad," she said presently, with a wise little nod. "You're not glad. You don't want to go.
Instead, he meandered toward Gilbert and observed, insolently enough: "Look here, you've kept me waiting too long. What does this mean, eh?" "I'm sorry," Gilbert returned. "I forgot all about you for the moment. Oh," he suddenly remembered that Hardy and Pell were unacquainted, "you two gentlemen ought to know each other. Mr. Pell, shake hands with Mr. Hardy." Pell gave the other a curt nod.
"They seem mighty keen for their new playground," he said at last, with a quick nod in the direction of the recreation house. The engineer came out of his dream. His mournful eyes turned in the direction indicated and devoured the scene. Then he glanced down at the squat figure stumping beside him. "Guess that's so.
"Yes; an agency man telephoned me that he's just back from Sandy Hook " The train began to move out of the station. Ruthven hesitated, then stepped away from the passing car with a significant parting nod to Hallam. As the train, gathering momentum, swept past him, he stared about at the snow-covered station, the guard, the few people congregated there.
Nor did she again seek his eye after she had satisfied herself that her manoeuvre was observed and understood. On the contrary, she shortly afterwards left the hut, and it was only as she tripped out from the door, that, favoured by the obscurity, she gave Waverley a parting smile and nod of significance, ere she vanished in the dark glen.
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