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"No, we make for the pass first; that's the quickest way to reach the signal-station, then we learn where to strike for the Indians. Did you ever hear of their being as far west as the Maricopa range before?" "Never, sir, in the whole time we've been here, and since the lieutenant joined they've never been heard of crossing the Santa Maria valley." "What on earth could tempt them out so far?
Carroway, being a generous man, would not be outdone in apologies. So these two strengthened their mutual esteem, without any fighting which generally is the quickest way of renewing respect and Mistress Anerley, having been a little frightened, took credit to herself for the good words she had used.
And this was the way and the word of it: "She is back in the Kasbah!" "The daughter of Ben Oliel? Thank God! But why? Has she recanted?" "She has fallen sick." "And Ben Aboo has sent her to prison?" "He thinks that the physician who will cure her quickest." "Allah save us! The dog of dogs! But God be praised! At least she is saved from the Sultan." "For the present, only for the-present."
But they thought that a surprise would enable Clark to do as he wished, and they undertook to guide him by the quickest and shortest route to the towns. The March to Kaskaskia. Clark was rather pleased than otherwise to learn of the horror with which the French regarded the backwoodsmen.
"You are a busy little Bébée always," he said, with his lips caressing her soft brown arms that were round his neck. "But you must be busier than ever whilst I am gone. So you will forget. No, no, I do not mean that: I mean so the time will pass quickest. And I shall finish your picture, Bébée, and all Paris will see you, and the great ladies will envy the little girl with her two wooden shoes.
"Taboo," as word or sound, had no place in Jerry's vocabulary. But its definition, or significance, was there in the quickest part of his consciousness.
"He had a long trail to foller, an' he tuk the hawse that'd git 'im there and back the quickest. Now what I'd admire to know is, who was the rider, an' where was he goin' to? D' you happen to miss anybody las' night, Bud?" "Me? Thunder! Bill, you know damn well I wouldn't miss my own beddin' roll if it was drug out from under me!" "Same here," mourned Bill.
Remembering my own boyhood on cold mornings, I looked behind him to see if he also were under compulsion, but there was no other mouse in sight. He would scoop up a double handful of water in his paws, rub it rapidly up over nose and eyes, and then behind his ears, on the spots that wake you up quickest when you are sleepy.
The mere waving it before a man's eyes will dispossess his brains of all the notions previously stored there, and fill it with an entirely new set of ideas; one gentle tap on the back will alter the colour of a man's coat completely; and there are some expert performers, who, having this wand held first on one side and then on the other, will change from side to side, turning their coats at every evolution, with so much rapidity and dexterity, that the quickest eye can scarcely detect their motions.
But the coach was waiting for him; and he ran off without saying a word. I call that rude." He was still stirring his lemonade with his bit of cake or he might have seen something in the widow's face that would have startled him. He did look up, when she spoke to him. His sense of hearing was his quickest sense; and he was struck by the sudden change in her voice.
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