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I'm almost sure you thought that I would give up the stage if I had enough money to live on without my work. 'Yes, I did. He stopped as if in anger and the words came sharply; but he was not angry. 'You see! Margaret answered triumphantly. 'I knew it! What becomes of your story about the company now? She rose also and began to walk.
At that moment a heavy step resounded in the street. Instinctively we moved away from each other; I returned to my double-handed sword, and Rose, to keep herself in countenance, set to dusting, with a corner of her apron, a little statuette in its faded red velvet case. My uncle entered. Surprised at finding us together, he stopped short and looked sharply at us, from one to the other.
He fought at first, but on being prodded sharply with the muzzle of a gun moved sullenly in their midst along the trail he had so lately come over. They trudged in a harsh silence, save now and then when he tried to persuade them of his innocence, only to convince them further that he lied.
"We were sending nothing through on account of the Fourth," explained Bart, "but you leave the package here and I will see that it goes on the eleven o'clock train." Bart had just completed the fire-loss list when a heavy step caused him to turn around. A portly, well-dressed man, important-appearing and evidently on business, stood in the doorway looking sharply about the place.
I knew a man who broke into a house in New York to win a bet, and to this day the owner of that house thinks him a professional burglar." "What's that?" said Mr. McEachern, sharply. "Why do I say 'a man ? Why am I so elusive and mysterious? You're quite right. It sounds more dramatic, but after all what you want is facts. Very well. I broke into your house that night to win a bet.
He suspected me, that was plain, and left his umbrella by way of experiment to see if I were watching him sharply enough to notice the circumstance, and to avail myself of it to follow him. I was hasty and fell into the trap. He cabbed it away from Luzatti's, and I cabbed it after him.
Luncheon was laid on another table and was over, before anything else happened. The next thing was that I heard the maid saying sharply: "What business 'ave you got going round to the back? We don't want none of your rubbish here." A hoarse voice answered inaudibly.
Kybird. "I wonder " He laid his pipe down on the table and stared at the mantelpiece. "He seems very struck with 'er," he concluded. "I see that directly." "Not afore I did," said his wife, sharply. "See it afore you come into the shop," said Mr. Kybird, triumphantly. "It 'ud be a strange thing to marry into that family, Emma."
And I put the helm hard up, and the Hispaniola swung round rapidly and ran stem on for the low wooded shore. The excitement of these last maneuvers had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.
All the blood in the man's heart seemed to turn to fire and flame into his face as he turned towards her, making as if he would take her face in his hands and seal his soul upon her mouth. Then he sharply flung himself away from her. "Nay, I can fight and if needs must die in your quarrel, but if once I touched your lips that would make life too sweet to adventure."
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