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Tansley gave him a significant glance, nodding his head sideways at other men near them. "Going to be a more serious affair, this, than the first was, Brent," he whispered. "These police chaps have either got something up their sleeves or Hawthwaite's got some bee in his bonnet!
Upon the wall hung the black painted target, near to the centre of which he had once shot. His skates lay upon the chest of drawers, near to the nodding plaster figure. The long journey, and the overpowering surprise which awaited him on his return, had strongly affected him: he opened the window; a large white sand-hill rose like a wall straight up before it, and deprived him of all view.
"This here thing's gettin' too popular all to once." "Did that guy get you?" asked Williams, nodding to Overland. "Not what you'd notice," replied Overland. "We'll take a drink on the house. She ain't so tidy as she was." "Neither is the guy behind the bar," said Bud Light, pointing with the stub of his finger to Lusk's face. The saloon-keeper had been hit between the eyes by a chance bullet.
The driver smacked his whip, and away went the stage again, and she was left, standing alone, beside her trunk, before the piazza of the inn, watching Timmins, who was looking back at her out of the stage window, nodding and waving good-bye. The little Queen in the Arm-Chair.
The Countess loved an occasional rhyme when a point was to be made, and went off nodding and tripping till the time for stateliness arrived, near the breakfast-room door. She indeed was acting.
There would be nothing derogatory in his attempting to become better acquainted with the fair young creature with whom he had been so greatly struck. Though very unwilling at present to leave her, he was conscious that he ought not, with so many eyes likely to be turned in that direction, to remain longer in her society. "I must attend to my duties," he said, nodding to Adam and his wife.
"They got wind of his being up this way. Somebody saw him, or thought he did. Crackey! Do you suppose he was the fellow who took the food from your tent, Laura?" "Yes, I do," admitted his sister. "Then he's far enough away from the lake now," said Chet, nodding. "That amount would have lasted him till he got over the Canadian border." "Perhaps," said Laura.
"Do you?" smiled the doctor, nodding his head in farewell to the young man on the steps. "Well, as near as I can judge, there are a good many things you 'love' to do eh?" he added, as they drove briskly away. Pollyanna laughed. "Why, I don't know. I reckon perhaps there are," she admitted.
"Here," he whispered to my uncle, as I looked from one to the other, and saw the Doctor smiling blandly. "This this boy not Frank Burr's " "Yes," said my uncle, nodding to me. "Pupil here. Send him into the service by and by." "Bless my soul! Oh dear me! Here I that is " stammered the General, looking from one to the other, till his eyes lit on Bob Hopley, when he flushed up angrily.
Watson, I think our quiet rest in the country has been a distinct success, and I shall certainly return much invigorated to Baker Street to-morrow." Adventure VII. The Crooked Man One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my day's work had been an exhausting one.
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