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This lady and her husband took their places in a perfectly-appointed brougham she required a closed carriage and as our young man waved his hat to them in response to their nods and flourishes he reflected that, taken together, they were an honourable image of success, of the material rewards and the social credit of literature.
"Are we fortunate enough to find you disengaged," Hilditch suggested, "to-morrow evening?" "I am quite free," was the ready response. "That suits you, Margaret?" Hilditch asked, turning courteously to his wife. For a single moment her eyes were fixed upon those of her prospective guest. He read their message which pleaded for his refusal, and he denied it.
One afternoon Paul made his way down Fifth avenue on foot. The sky was unbelievably blue and a flashing brilliancy sparkled in all the splinters of color that embroidered themselves along the parquetry of the street. The avenue has, at times, a magic of its own and today it was a swiftly flowing stream of brilliancy and life and laughter. But this was a mood to which Paul Burton found no response.
Men trained to shoot with it, used to the slender line of its silver foresight and to the delicate response of its hair-trigger, have made rare records in marksmanship. The very difficulty of loading the time it took taught its users to be accurate and not spend the shot.
She left me of her own accord, in spite of my entreaties to her to stay entreaties which I made her in response to an exhibition of temper which would have justified me in parting from her there and then.
"Please, not a word to anybody about my fall," said Miss Sterling in a low voice, as she was helped from the car. "Is that wise?" It was asked in a surprised tone. "Extremely wise," was the smiling response. "I might wish to go picnicking again, you know." Her twinkling eyes met his puzzled face. "As you will," he promised gravely. There was time for no more. The others were waiting.
The miss could make no suitable response to this brilliant remark and did not attempt to do so, while Tim said nothing at all, as if the subject had no attraction to him. By and by the parent uttered a contemptuous sniff. He was reading "Mit's" contribution, and for the first time came upon something with which he did not agree.
Just let any one try to stop his course, his readiness for snapping fingers at The Job; just let them try it, that was all he wanted! Then he was shot out of his chair and four feet along the corridor, in reflex response to the surly "Bur-r-r-r-r" of the buzzer. Mr. Mortimer R. Guilfogle, the manager, desired to see him.
With the exception that he had been firmly seized and held down while the Strangler bound him, Jack had not been roughly treated, and he was quite free to turn his head from side to side and mark all that went on. In a few moments the Ruby King raised his hand. As if in response to the signal an attendant struck one deep booming rolling note on a great gong.
They made no noise in the soft clay, nor broke the all-foreboding silence anywhere, till the second gate swung open gratingly, yet even then nor hoarse nor shrill response came back, save distant croaking, as of frogs or owls, or the whizz of some passing night-hawk.
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