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He paused for a few moments to note the effect of his story, then with grave and measured steps approached the table and placed the mysterious box upon it. "The cloth, Mister!" exclaimed the incorrigible Ben-Zayb. "Why not?" rejoined Mr. Leeds, very complaisantly. Lifting the box with his right hand, he caught up the cloth with his left, completely exposing the table sustained by its three legs.
Towards noon the Echo corvette, which had parted company, rejoined us, and passed under the stern of the frigate: she was ordered to imitate our manoeuvres, which she instantly did; she did not send any boat on shore. Thus united, we lay to together in the bay of St. Croix. About four o'clock in the afternoon, the boat having returned on board we directed our course for Senegal.
'You are beginning to stand easily in attitudes of defiance to your own father. 'That I may practise how to provoke a paternal Government, you mean, she rejoined, and was quite a match for him in dialectics. The count chanced to allude further to the Signorina Vittoria. 'Do you know much of that lady? she asked. 'As much as is known, said he.
"If it is just the same to you I would smoke it after dinner." "Sure!" the stranger rejoined, handing him another; "smoke that one after dinner and smoke this one now." Sam grinned and after they had lit up he ventured the observation that it was fine weather. "Aber it should be colder," he concluded, "for heavyweights." "Are you in the clothing business?" the stranger asked.
'Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing? Do you know that you were the attorneys for the plaintiff, in Bardell and Pickwick? 'Yes, sir, we do know it, replied Dodson. 'Of course we know it, Sir, rejoined Fogg, slapping his pocket perhaps by accident. 'I see that you recollect it with satisfaction, said Mr.
"It's unnecessary to point out that a director's interest is no invariably the same as that of his shareholders," Nairn rejoined. "It's an unfortunate fact. Yet I'd be no better off if I got only the same actual return on a larger amount of what would be watered stock." "There's sense in that. I'm no urging the scheme there are other points against it."
This gave De Soto the promise of nearly twenty years more of life. Reverently he replied, "I am in the hands of God. I rely with humble confidence on his protection." "In that you do well," rejoined M. Codro. "Still it is your duty to use such human means as may be required to defend yourself against open violence or fraudful malice."
"I'm not one," rejoined Dick. "And, not very far into the future lies the day when I'm going to prove it to you." "If you can," replied Dr. Thornton, "you'll make me as happy as you do yourself and your parents." "Let me have the watch and pin to turn over to the chief, doctor," requested Hemingway, and took the articles. "Now, for the boy ?"
"Say, don't think it personal of me, will you?" remarked Harry Harkness to Rob as they followed, "but would you mind telling me what you all are wearing those uniforms for?" "Why, we're Boy Scouts," rejoined Rob proudly, and went on to explain just what the organization is. "Say, that's great," exclaimed Harry enthusiastically, "I'd like to form a patrol out at Lariat. Do you reckon I could?"
"An', by the cross o' Moses, I'll do it in style," rejoined the hot-headed but unthinking fellow, who did not see that the adroit captain was placing him in the post of danger. "I don't care a damn what it is we'll meet here to-morrow night, boys, an' I'll show you that I can lead as well as folly.
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