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The girl obeyed, and gave him a kiss, and the whining dog a reassuring pat, as she hurried back to finish setting the table a simple matter, for there was no spotless damask, glittering silver and cut glass to deck the white-scoured top of the plain slab which formed a substantial table for many purposes.
As these thoughts darted through Henderson's brain, and with them the frightful suggestion that those three the unarmed man and the two helpless children, one of them his might at that moment be beset by a cruel and bloodthirsty foe, a cold shudder went through his frame, and, hurriedly speaking to his companions a few words which he intended should be reassuring, but which his manner rendered quite the reverse, he dashed down the inner stairway to the court-yard, and seizing Gaunt's repeating rifle, which he knew to be loaded, and directing Manners and Nicholls who had rushed out of their room at the sound of the firing to arm themselves and follow him, he rushed up to the roof again, and descending to the ground by the outer ladder, hurried away off in the direction of the creek.
"Well, if anything happens, just let us know when to jump," returned Mr. Miller, with a reassuring smile, for he felt no anxiety, having perfect confidence in Davis' ability to bring his coach safely to the journey's end.
"Now I am just a plain bush rancher, and don't know how to put things nicely, but I don't know that there's any disrespect in a straight question, and I came to ask if you would marry me." The girl was mistress of herself, and the man's naive directness was in a fashion reassuring. She was also, for a moment, very angry. "It is a little sudden, is it not?" she said.
As they walked on he regaled them with selected instances. "Don't forget your leg, uncle," said Miss Drewitt, softly. Captain Bowers gazed at her suspiciously. "Don't forget that it's stiff and put too much strain on it," explained his niece. The captain eyed her uneasily, but she was talking and laughing with Edward Tredgold in a most reassuring fashion.
Although the captain's words were not particularly reassuring, his confident tone and manner infused hope, and comforted the people greatly. Some of the male passengers even volunteered to face the shower of stones, if need be, and lend a hand in launching the boats, when the time for doing so arrived.
The reply was more than reassuring, and the landlord, after describing with considerable art the exact appearance of a head which had been seen hanging out of a window in the moonlight, wound up with a polite but urgent request that they would settle his bill before they went.
Foster joined them, and it was some time later when Mrs. Keith took Blake into the empty drawing-room. "I'm glad you have come home," she said. "I think you are needed." "That," said Blake, "is how it seemed to me." His quietness was reassuring. Mrs. Keith knew he was to be trusted, but she felt some misgivings about supporting him in a line of action that would cost him much.
It is useless to tell them that for the very reason the ship has slackened her speed it is obvious she is being navigated with care and watchfulness. The answer was a reassuring one. She had burnt a flare for a pilot, and quickly an answering gleam came from afar out of the darkness ahead. The pilot was soon on board.
Gilder led her aft and down into the living-room, he strove to banish that frightened look by gentle words and reassuring promises. "But where is my Uncle Aleck? And where are Mr. Brackett and Winn? I can't find them anywhere. Solon said they were in the pilot-house." "They are on the raft, and we are going to find them," was the answer. "Oh, I'm so glad they've got the raft again!
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