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She was standing with one hand upon the window-sill, and suddenly felt the Gadfly's cold fingers press the hand with a passionate clasp. "Thank you!" he whispered softly; and then, closing the window, sat down again upon the sill. "I'm afraid," he said in his airy manner, "that I have interrupted you, gentlemen. I was l-looking at the variety show; it is s-such a p-pretty sight."

The horse was evidently walking, and the voices came to him distinctly. "I'm not a coward any s-such thing! We oughtn't to have c-come, in the first place. I can't go with you. Please turn round, C-Carter, please!" There was no mistaking that high, childlike voice, with its faltering speech. Sandy's gloomy frown narrowed to a scowl. What business had Annette out there in the storm?

'Cosi fan tutti; and then you would be doing s-such a lot of good, and so l-little harm! Really, it's n-not worth all the sleepless nights you have been spending over it!" "Please stop laughing a minute," Montanelli interrupted, "and tell me how you heard all this. Who has been talking to you about it?" "H-hasn't the colonel e-e-ever told you I am a d-d-devil not a man? No?

D'you know he's a publican's son? a vile, low fellow masquerading as a g-gentleman? Yes, he's a p-publican's son, I tell you!" he repeated, seeing how she shrank at this. "And you s-stoop to such as he s-stoop to meet him in s-such a place as this! So I came to save you f-from yourself!" "Did you, Ronald?" "Yes but oh, Cleone, you don't love the fellow, do you?" "I think I hate him, Ronald."

"See see they're not all red or partly so s-such a lovely pinky-red, especially around the fins and head that's where they keep their pigment," said Tanpa. "Some have colored themselves like goldfish; others are greenish or lighter yellow." "Ha!

Ruddy, the slipslop explorer, had gone in heels over head, so to speak. He was hanging by the heels now. Nothing visible of him but those pinioned feet! "Hea-vens! he did strike a blind bargain. S-such a snag! The passage ends here. A drop! A blank fall of rock! Gee-ee!" Dank dank as cave-tears now was the moisture upon Stud's forehead. For the first time his teeth almost chattered.

"S-such a c-cursed drowsy " Barrymaine sank down upon his side, rolled over upon his back, threw wide his arms, and so lay, breathing stertorously. Then Mr.

Her eyes stared straight before her, blue as the June violet that caught a drop from the spring near. "Who who are you?" screamed Una, forgetting that she was speaking to a broken man. "How about my being your uncle, Treffrey Graham, my dear, who who was such a mad fellow in youth; s-such an oddity? Oh-h! you've heard of him have you?"