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A customer came in, and while Hilda was busy Mr. Feuerstein went to the rear counter. On a chopping block lay a knife with a long, thin blade, ground to a fine edge and a sharp point. He began to play with it, and presently, with a sly, almost insane glance to assure himself that she was not seeing, slipped it into the right outside pocket of his coat.
Teddy's eyes were fixed on his father, and all his father could do was to whisper, 'Sit still, Teddy. You mustn't move. Teddy, keep still. Then Rikki-tikki came up and cried: 'Turn round, Nagaina; turn and fight! 'All in good time, said she, without moving her eyes. 'I will settle my account with you presently. Look at your friends, Rikki-tikki. They are still and white; they are afraid.
Presently, a prolonged cry was heard again, and again Cricket started in quest of him. She looked and called everywhere, but George W. was nowhere to be found, though his meow, with a quality peculiar to himself, seemed to come from no particular place, but to pervade the air generally. "Come and help me find George W.," she called to Eunice and Edna, who were also on the piazza.
I am very hungry; pray, let me have something for supper as speedily as possible"; and our reporter proceeds to spoil his admirable picture by condescending upon "Mutton Chops and an Apple Pye." The six weeks allowed her to prepare for death were all too short for the correspondence and literary labours in which she presently became involved.
"Yes," he said presently, "May goes deep deeper than most men though I doubt whether they will applaud this." "I should like it better if they did not," said Ethel. "It is rather to be felt than shouted at." "And I don't know how the world would go on if it were felt. Few men would do much without the hope of fame," said Norman Ogilvie. "Is it the question what they would do?" said Ethel.
This, as it will presently appear, the King of France and the Queen of England succeeded in doing very thoroughly, and they accomplished it notwithstanding the astuteness and the diligence of the States' envoy, who at Henry's urgent request had accompanied the French mission to England.
At first you were only aware of smoke in the distant west; in a few days' time you discovered a chimney, and presently found that that chimney was fixed to a large cauldron which rolled along without horses, dragging after it a dozen wagons full of wood and iron. Whenever it stopped men jumped out and laid down the wood, fastened the iron to it and drove off again.
About this time it ceased, and was heard no more: Tecumseh was dead. Presently a cry of 'how! how! was raised among the Indians; upon which they turned and fled, pursued by our soldiers.
Presently the papers were cast aside, the bowed shoulders in the splendidly-cut blue-serge uniform squared back in the chair, and Redmond found himself being scrutinized intently by the all-familiar bronzed old aristocratic countenance, with its sweeping fair moustache.
Would she ever see the beautiful city and the pageants that were almost daily occurrences? "When did you come here?" she asked presently. "A fortnight ago, when the storeship arrived." "Ah, yes. Maman and I went to see it and M. Hébert sent us some curious, delicious dried fruits.
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