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House on fire?" exclaimed Logan, pausing in the act of handing a dish of iced caviar to his guest. "We're not from the fire department," said the elder and smarter looking of the pair, civilly, yet with a certain grimness. "I guess you know that well enough. We've been sent here on a hurry call on your 'phone to the police a girl supposed to be detained in the house against her will."
'Marie had better walk with us there, but it's such a little way we can come back by ourselves, can't we. 'Yes; I should think so, says Philippa. 'Then I'll just go and get my hat, and Teddy, pausing at the door, adds. 'Do you know I think you're a very good aunt for a boy to have. 'Indeed? and Lippa laughs.
He immediately rose from table and came in, and asked him who he was, and for what business he came there; and then Marcius, unmuffling himself, and pausing awhile said, "If you cannot yet call me to mind, Tullus, or do not believe your eyes concerning me, I must of necessity be my own accuser.
"No, we didn't," Allee agreed, pausing in her occupation of undressing the gorgeous Queen Helen to stare fixedly at her sister as if trying to fathom her thoughts. "We might ask Gussie for some crumbs. It ain't too late yet." "Crumbs wouldn't do at all. The book says they tie a sheaf of wheat to a tall pole in the yard so the birds will see it and come down and eat. See, there is the picture."
Grady was looking about for Peterson; when he saw his burly figure outlined against a light at the farther end of the building, he walked directly toward him, not pausing this time to talk to the laborers or to look at them. Max, moving off a little to one side, followed, and reached Peterson's side just as Grady, his hat pushed back on his head and his feet apart, was beginning to talk.
"In the name of your Manitou, come on, Silver Tassel!" he called up from the water, and struck out for the lad. Not pausing an instant, Silver Tassel sprang into the flood, into the whirling eddies and dangerous current below the first rapids and above the second.
"Nevertheless," maintained my father, as we toiled together upon the ballast, "I took the only course, and in like circumstances I would venture it again. The captain very properly thought first of his ship: but I preferred to think that we were in a hurry." "How did you contrive it?" I asked, pausing to ease my back, and listening for a moment to the sound of hatchets on deck.
Next, he unearthed a few cakes of hard bread, a small flask of brandy, and a pipe and half a plug of tobacco. "How'd ye come to Chance Along, anyhow? Where bes yer boat?" he asked, suddenly, pausing in his work. "I walked across from Witless Bay," said Darling. "Where bes yer boat?" asked the other. "In Witless Bay, you fool! Do you think I carried it across my back?"
But the darkness heavy and ominous, was permeated with the signs of things about to happen, and heavy with danger, a danger, however, that brought no fear to Henry for himself, only for others. A faint sighing note as of a distant bird came on the wind, and pausing, he listened intently.
"You mean," he said, pausing, with a seriousness and hesitation that startled her "do you mean that this is not the course of life that you would choose?" A sort of bashfulness made her put her answer playfully "All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. "Toys have a kindly mission, and I may be good for nothing else; but I would have rather been a coffee-pot than a china shepherdess."
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