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"I'm glad to see you spot the crux so quickly, Bunny. I have thought of your taking it round to your place first, under cloud of night; but we are bound to be seen even so, and on the whole it would look far less suspicious in broad daylight.
"Guess none o' you heard the news?" he inquired, with a grin of anticipation. His first effort failed to produce the effect he desired, so a repetition followed quickly. For a moment play was suspended at one of the tables, and the men looked up. "Noos?" inquired Diamond Jack. The Kid and his youthful companions looked round at the foxy face of their host. "Oh!
"Well! it is some relief to know she is coming at all," cried Seymour, quickly; and then, recovering himself with perfect breeding, he added "for one would wish to see you as happy as all your friends can make you, on such an occasion."
It might be that the thane had returned, but it was in my mind that the manner of Grinkel's coming boded ill to all of us. So I rode on quickly down the hill towards the river.
Both creatures now, as if they had some sense of danger, stood with their majestic heads raised, looking steadily about and apparently scanning the air to catch the taint of danger. Thus they offered a good mark to the riflemen. "Shoot!" whispered Alex, quickly; and almost as he spoke two reports rang out.
"Phyllis," said I, "you are cutting me to the heart." "But to the matter at hand," she said quickly. "There is a misunderstanding between you and my sister Hildegarde. She sent me this letter. Read it." It differed but little from the one I had read in the King's chamber that morning. I gave it back to her. "Do you understand?" "I confess that I do not.
They saluted, and Vesey spurred his pony to a gallop, passing up the ridge and joining his friends to report, while Hawkridge was admitted through the door, which was immediately closed and secured behind him. To the captain and the others who crowded around he quickly told what had passed.
"Little Pierre, his eyes large and troubled, had followed his friend to the square and stood sympathetically beside him. "'What, can I do? Tell me quickly, urged the boy. "'Fetch me a cup of water. I am burning with the fever again. One drink of water and I shall have the strength to die bravely. Those Prussian dogs shall not see so much as the quiver of an eyelid, said the sergeant.
John, with his pipe in one hand, was lifting the other to the shelf above his head for his tobacco-jar. The last words of the hymn were still on their lips. Denas opened the door and stood just within the room, looking at them. Both fixed their eyes upon her. They thought they saw a spirit. They were speechless. "Father! Mother! It is Denas!" She came forward quickly as she spoke.
The horror of the unknown danger would paralyse the war, batteries would be deserted and the trenches would quickly be internationalized. The sense of our common humanity, outraged at the sight and the smell of the monsters, would assert itself.
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