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Oh, he'll have followed him all right I don't imagine for a moment that Greyle is trying to evade anybody, at this juncture, at any rate." But when four hours later the train drew into King's Cross and Gilling's partner, a young and sharp-looking man, presented himself, it was with a long and downcast face and a lugubrious shake of the head.
Alan shook hands with him, and then felt like wiping off his hand. Hollis came to see them often. Another frequent visitor was Mike Kovak of the Bryson Syndicate a sharp-looking businessman type in ultra-modern suits, who spoke clearly and well and whose specialty was forgery.
Dolores could not restrain her curiosity. She opened the door wider and called to the clerk, 'Mr. Wilkins. Mr. Wilkins looked round. He was a tall, alert, sharp-looking young man, whose only weakness in life was a hopeless attachment to Miss Paulo. 'Yes, Miss Paulo. 'Who was the gentleman who just arrived, Mr. Wilkins? Mr.
From the clump of blackness that indicated the beginning of the West Orham woods came a long-drawn dismal "toot"; then two shorter ones. The committee sprang to its feet and looked interested. Sam Hardy came out of the ticket office. The stage-driver, a sharp-looking boy of about fourteen, with a disagreeable air of cheap smartness sticking out all over him, left his seat in the shadow of Mr.
Chip!" cried Tom, and the decoy-man's little sharp-looking dog came bounding to them, to leap up, and fawn and whine, full of delight at seeing human faces again.
I never saw so good a Richard III. Let him pass and make way for one of a different description, Victor, a fine, open, gentlemanly countenance, tho' not like a military hero. Marmont, a dark haired, sharp-looking man of military stature. Duc de Dantzig, very ugly and squinting. Berthier, remarkably quiet and intelligent.
Clough was talking to a sharp-looking lad, of apparently sixteen or seventeen years, who stood at the door leading into the shop, and who glanced at Collingwood with keen interest and speculation. "Here's Jabey Naylor wants to know if he's to do aught, Mestur," said the housekeeper.
Then the two parties of school friends came together like the mingling of waters. One was a very plump girl with a smiling, rosy face; one was red-haired and very sharp-looking, and the other two balanced each other evenly, both being more than a little pretty, very well dressed, and one dark while the other was light.
"Per Dio!" he exclaimed, jumping up with fury, "understand, Signor Inglese, that Croppo is not to be trifled with. I have a summary way of treating disrespect," and he drew a long and exceedingly sharp-looking two-edged knife. "So you would kill the goose" and I certainly am a goose, I reflected "that may lay a golden egg."
Rhoda said, when he came up. "We have heard so much of you, and how kindly you nursed my brothers." "Sam quite well, tank you, little missy," Sam said, grinning all over his face and showing his white teeth. Miss Scudamore shrank towards Tom as Sam passed on, "Dear me, what sharp-looking teeth he has, Tom. They don't eat curious things, these black men, do they?"
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