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"Next, it is claimed that Morrison released this spy and allowed him to enter the Union lines without regard to consequences." The General gave a short exclamation of impatience, and struck the papers on his desk with the flat of his hand. "And that is proved," he said, sharply. "Proved by several officers who stopped your spy at points along the road."
The hard day's walking made this rest peculiarly agreeable: he had eaten well, his mind was at peace he no longer concerned himself with psychological theories he was content to live and feel. Sharply out of the silence came a ringing report. Jim was jerked to a sitting posture, listening with all his ears.
Although I never had the pleasure of seeing Prince Napoleon before, I should have known him among a thousand, from his remarkable likeness to his uncle, the first Emperor. A stronger resemblance, I conceive, could scarcely exist between two persons. The same delicate, sharply cut features, thin refined mouth, and firm determined jaw.
Now and then he wondered vaguely about his boy and asked himself what he should feel when he went and stood by the carved four-posted bed again and looked down at the sharply chiseled ivory-white face while it slept and the black lashes rimmed so startlingly the close-shut eyes. He shrank from it.
Laying the book down and turning sharply on Shirley, he asked her bluntly: "Do you mean to say that I couldn't stop to-morrow if I wanted to?" She affected to not understand him. "You?" she inquired in a tone of surprise. "Well it's a natural question," stammered Ryder, with a nervous little laugh; "every man sees himself in the hero of a novel just as every woman sees herself in the heroine.
Hadj dropped the green bag, and was evidently about to kneel down, and assist him when he lifted himself up abruptly and looked before him, as if at the priest who was approaching, then turned sharply to the right into a path which led out of the garden to the arcades of the Rue Berthe. Hadj followed, gesticulating frantically, and volubly explaining that the hotel was in the opposite direction.
Then it drew back sharply with its little upstanding ears twitching with a motion of attention and canine uncertainty. Then the wolf head was turned in the direction of its master, and its unblinking gaze was fixed upon his face. The animal stood thus with ears constantly moving, turning this way and that, listening for any strange sound that might chance upon the air.
He did not relinquish his grasp. "No," he said. "I think, on the whole, that that is unreasonable. I SHOULD get wet and, though I don't mind it when it is necessary, I " "Well?" rather sharply, "what are you going to do?" "Go with you as far as your gate. I'm sorry, if my company is distasteful, but " He did not finish the sentence, thinking, it may be, that she might finish it for him.
When broad and vague, they did not, as a rule, greatly interest him; but when they got small, and sharply black, he knew they might at any instant break through with a splash and become real, coloured things, probably good to eat. A certain slim little shadow was always of interest to him unless he was feeling gorged.
"She has a good house and farm already, and she will be certain to receive much more on the death of her bachelor uncle in England," said the aunt sharply. "You must strive to undo that foolish hour's work. It was only a tiff on her part, and you should have cried your eyes out if necessary."
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