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I therefore proceeded to unlash one and roll it toward the still open gangway; and then came the question of provisions.
"Who the blue blazes are you?" countered the barefoot man, his eyes running contemptuously over the shabby and slight-built figure. "My name is Brice," said the other. "Gavin Brice. Not that it matters. And now, perhaps you'll answer my question. Whose dog is that?" "Mine," returned the barefoot man, renewing his effort to drag the collie toward the boat.
The Professor gave vent to a little exclamation. "Our guides!" he demanded. "And the camels! What has become of them?" "I woke you up to ask you that question?" Quest replied, "but I guess it's pretty obvious. We might have saved the money we gave for those rifles in Port Said." The Professor hurried off towards the spot where the encampment had been made.
What a perpetual fund would it have been of obsolete words and phrases, unusual barbarisms and rusticities, absurd spellings and complicated dialects! I make no question but that it would have been looked upon as one of the most valuable treasuries of the Greek tongue.
It was of little use to question Julia, who always declared that she "didn't want to be bothered about school in the holidays," and that Ruth would soon find out "how horrid it was." It was in September that they bade farewell to Stonegate and left for Busyborough.
When the young gardener, running on ahead, jangled at the side-gate yard-bell, more than one pair of feet was on the move within; and there was the cry of the dog, sure enough, almost articulate with keen distress about some unknown wrong. "What is the dog, Archibald? what is the dog?" The speaker was too anxious for the answer to frame her question squarely. But the old Scotch groom understood.
Rosmore will save her, do you understand, and in her gratitude she will give him his reward." "How will he save me?" came the question in a monotonous voice, and Sir John started, for it did not seem as if Martin had asked it.
I discovered that it was of little use to question him: the one valuable recollection he possessed on any subject would, as a rule, not be available when wanted; it would lie just beneath the surface so to speak, and he would pass and repass over the ground without seeing it.
This is indeed a splendid scholarship. There are various other scholarships for boys and girls under the age of 12, and others for those under 15, so that it is possible for a boy to rise "from the gutter to the University." The recent success of girls has brought forward the question whether they too should not be allowed to compete for the Tasmanian Scholarship.
"I don't know about that; I am tee-totally opposed to meddlin' with women, and I don't think it's manly." "Yes, but in this instance we are compelled, as it were, to take the girl with us. That changes the case, you know, very materially." "I'm not so sure as we need to take her. I believe she'd keep our secret ef we'd let her go." "Well, I don't; and so we differ. But that is not the question.
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