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They appeared thin and slow, with only an occasional leaping flame. And some of the black spaces must have been monuments, blotting out the creeping snail-lines of red. Slone watched, strangely fascinated. "What do you think of that?" he said, aloud, and he meant his query for Wildfire. As he watched the lines perceptibly lengthened and brightened and pale shadows of smoke began to appear.
Bousefield in that juncture had been served up to me anew, but after we had disposed of him we came to the book, which I was obliged to confess I had already rushed through. It was from this moment the moment at which my terrible impression of it had blinked out at his anxious query that the image of his scared face was to abide with me.
When, as a young professor, I told the grey-haired author in my mother's name something which could not fail to afford him pleasure, I received the most eager assent to my query whether he still remembered her. "How I thank your admirable mother for inducing you to write!" ran the letter. "Only I must enter a protest against your first lines, suggesting that I might have forgotten her.
Then Mr Query and the dwarfs disappeared underground calling out as they did so: "You see we have our lift and our electric light too, Mr Engineer ha! ha! we are not quite so behind the times as you thought us ha! ha!" Norah and Karl stood still in speechless astonishment; then they looked anxiously for their gold, fearing that the dwarfs might have played them a trick after all.
"I did intend to refurnish, but mother, who retains a little of her old Scotch training, talked me out of it," Helen explained, in answer to a query. "Is there anything more hopelessly 'handsome' and shining than these chairs? There's so little to find fault with, and so little to really admire." "They're like a ready-made suit unobjectionable, but not fit." "They have no soul.
But this was not the time for backward glances. Grim work lay ahead of them. An hour later preparations were made to ascend and repair the damaged periscopes. In response to a query from the ship's commander, Sammy Smith said he could find no trace of any nearby or approaching vessels, although he had given the submarine telephone its best test.
The round yellow cigar was getting stubby, while Jimmie's modest eyes sought out the points of interest in the new-comers, when he was suddenly and sharply addressed: "Can you cook?" Jimmie couldn't do anything in a hurry, except chop a log in two, paddle very fast, and shoot quickly, so he said, as was his wont: "I think I dun'no' " "Well, how much?" came the query. "Two daul ars " said Jimmie.
I'm afraid of the old fella, for his place is not in the pen wid that young thing, an' he'll break her heart, or kill her, if he gets to know the truth." "What do you mean by 'the truth, Patsy?" was the sharp query. "I mean nothin' at all, save that in there wild youth is spakin' to wild youth honest and dacint and true. But there's manny a tragedy comes out of that, y'r anner."
Beside him sat Lars Gunnarson, enlightening him as to who had moved away from the district within the year, and who had married. Jan having answered all questions correctly and promptly, the pastor turned to Lars and put a query to him in a low tone of voice. "It was not as serious as it appeared," said Lars. "I took it out of him. He works at Falla every day now, as he has always done."
"My father tried to make a gentleman out of me and failed, as you see," Asher replied. "Tragic failure," Jim groaned. "Seriously, Aydelot, what's Thaine to do?" The query came from Dr. Carey; the company awaited the answer. "He isn't wanting to follow anything right now. He has a notion that the earth is following him," Asher said with a smile.
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