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She turned her eyes to the mountains shining in the morning light. "I'm glad it has happened in a beautiful place. It might have been anywhere." "Last night," I said, "I was thinking of you and wanting to hear your voice again. I thought I did." "I too. I wonder if we had some dim perception...." She scanned my face. "Stephen, you're not much changed.
"The enemy has probably much heavier metal and many more men than we have, but our two guns will be of as much service as her twenty if we can keep her as she now is, right astern and that's what I intend to do." The second mate had narrowly scanned the French ship. "I can tell you what, Captain Tracy," he said at length, "you haven't a chance of escaping from her.
Somehow for the moment Eugene forgot Dorothy's marriage, and Burr and his bitter jealousy, for suddenly a strange and unwarrantable sense of possession came over him. He looked fully at Dorothy, and scanned her drooping face, and smiled, and then Madelon came in. Dorothy arose at once and greeted her with more of her usual manner.
Mole, who with gentle strokes was just keeping the boat moving while he scanned the banks with care, looked at him with curiosity. 'It's gone! sighed the Rat, sinking back in his seat again. 'So beautiful and strange and new. Since it was to end so soon, I almost wish I had never heard it.
We raised a shout of joy and triumph at this discovery. "Stop a minute, though," said Gazen, and a shade of doubt passed over his face. "Perhaps it is only a mirage." We levelled our glasses at the distant scene, and scanned it with palpitating hearts.
When the two men had thrown themselves on the grass to eat their lunch the surveyor, between bites of his sandwich, carefully scanned the mountain side and the mouth of the canyon below. Suddenly reaching out his hand he picked up a burnt cigarette butt and regarded it intently, while the engineer watched him with curious, amused interest. "What the deuce is the matter, Abe?
He scanned this closely as he hurried forward, scarcely conscious that he was searching for some trampled space at the water's edge; but the verdant wall preserved its unbroken continuity, and twenty minutes later he came within sight of the Hicks' clearing and the keel boat, where it rested against the bank.
The young mother and her babe received a warm welcome from Jane, whose tender heart ached as she scanned the half frozen, emaciated beings before her; and even repining Sidney was forced to acknowledge that his sufferings had been nothing in comparison to those the mother and babe had endured.
A little later he observed the straining eagerness with which those eyes scanned the softly undulating surface of the sea. At last he said, "If Captain Rifle was right, the girl went overboard out there," and he pointed. Alan stood up. "But she wouldn't be there now," Olaf added. In his heart he believed she was, straight down at the bottom. He turned his boat shoreward.
Miss Norris seems to have a great deal of confidence in me, considering that I am a stranger. I will take care that she does not repent it." "Can you give a poor man enough money to buy a cheap meal?" asked a plaintive voice. Carl scanned the applicant for charity closely. He was a man of medium size, with a pair of small eyes, and a turnup nose.
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