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"Where are you playing?" "I've never really played. Just practiced." "Then you ought to be with us. Where's Densmore? We'll put you up and have you in by the next meeting." "A reporter in The Retreat!" protested Kirke who had proffered the bet. "Why not?" snapped old Poultney Masters. "Got any objections?"
Doc, who evidently was astir before the cook, became emboldened by the fact that Trask was up, and rattled the dishes in the galley with recklessness. Trask cautioned him when he came out with the cup and proffered the impromptu breakfast. "Have you heard anything?" he asked, as the steward stood beside him, loath to go back to his duties. "Me? Lordy, no, Mr. Trask!
Adister accepted her husband's proffered arm unhesitatingly at the appointed stroke of the clock. She said: 'Yes, in agreement with him, as if she had never heard him previously enunciate the formula, upon his pious vociferation that there should be no trifling with her hours of rest.
He felt that the path of duty led to the tram-lines. In a somewhat blundering fashion he proffered his services; the girl accepted them as a matter of course. Mrs. Jobling, with lips tightly compressed, watched them from the door. The girl, limping slightly, walked along with the utmost composure, but the bearing of her escort betokened a mind fully conscious of the scrutiny of the street.
"Done. I will write her exact language here on this piece of paper and then we will exchange copy." Harrington sat pleasantly amused, yet puzzled, while Dryden wrote and folded the paper. Then he proffered his note-book with nervous alacrity. "Read aloud until you come to the place," he said jauntily. Dryden scanned for a moment the memoranda, then looked up.
He was convinced that the glory of his house was to be infinitely enhanced, and its power impregnably established, by a cordial co-operation with Philip in his dark schemes against religion and humanity. The negotiations were kept, however, profoundly secret. A new campaign and fresh humiliations were to precede the acceptance by France of the peace which was thus proffered.
"Yes sir"; and Paul held out a cent to his customer. "Never mind about that! You may keep the prize." "I want it, pa," interposed Alfred, with his mouth full of candy. "I'll give you another," said his father, still declining to accept the proffered prize.
Well, I've little faith, but I've some charity here's a halfpenny for your father, to begin with." "Whilst I live, my father shall ask no charity, I hope," said the son, retreating from the insulting alms which Mowbray still proffered.
At the desk, wide-eyed with excitement, Miss Donovan took a service-worn pen proffered by landlord Pete Timmons, whose grey whiskers were as unkempt as his hotel, and registered her name. "A telegram came to-day for you, ma'am," Peter said in a cracked voice, and tossed it over. Miss Donovan tore it open. It was from Farriss. It read: If any clues, advise immediately. Willis digging hard.
"A Manual of Heraldry?" the baronet politely, and it may be ironically, inquired, before it could well escape. "I like it very much," said Ripton, clutching the book in dreadful torment. "Allow me to see that you have our arms and crest correct." The baronet proffered a hand for the book. "A Griffin between two Wheatsheaves," cried Ripton, still clutching it nervously. Mr.
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