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"Your 'buts' are too late, Gilian," she went on firmly. "If you rued the enterprise now, I would go myself." But she relaxed some of the coldness of her mood as he shifted his lantern to the other hand and put a bashful but firm and supporting hand below her arm to secure her footing in the rough ascent.
Bill, I present to you a fellow-citizen of mine from grand old New York State." The frowsy man struggled up, shifted his revolver so as not to sit on it, and extended his hand. "Proud to make yore acquaintance, sir. Any friend of the Colonel's is a friend o' mine." "We will likker up directly," the Colonel informed. "But fust the gentleman desires to attend to his person. Mr.
He shifted his position so that he could get the full benefit of its warmth. He thought that he had banished the memory of Helen Starratt forever, but he found his mind re-creating that final scene with her in all its relentless bitterness... She had come that day to salve her conscience ... to pay her tithe to form and respectability ... perhaps moved to fleeting pity.
A narrow clerk scanned the bulk of her baggage, unhooked some keys, and called, "Front." She was mildly taken for granted and her assurance stiffened. "Bath?" "What are your rates?" "Three-fifty and up." "Yes bath." He shifted among his keys and she noticed that when she returned the pen to him his hand lingered just too long. She had a way of lifting her eyebrows to express her archest scorn.
The Furious had shifted two of her broadside guns to her stern to reply, but, although the aim was good, only one or two hits were made, the distance being still too great for accurate shooting.
Handing back the lantern at the door, he said: "Give me your names." The men looked nonplussed, and shifted their weights uneasily from leg to leg. "You," said Peter, looking at the man who had interfered with him. "Wot do yer want with it?" he was asked. "That's my business. What's your name?" "John Tingley." "Where do you live?" "310 West 61st Street."
Those reasons trooped through the Oriental's mind as his black eyes shifted from the face of Campbell to the face of Bassett. "You understand," said Bassett. "It's an initiation for one of our school societies and it must be always a secret never tell any one we had anything to do with it. You understand?"
Quite true," said she. "He is quite as much at home in the water as on land, if anything a little more so. He is one member the family who takes to the water, and he certainly does love it. Is there anything else you want to know, Peter?" Peter shifted about uneasily and hesitated. "What is it, Peter?" asked Old Mother Nature kindly.
I had just time to chevy straight into the barn and pull off my saddle and bridle and hide under the hay when they shifted full towards where I'd been and then hung up their horses. The trooper tied his to a dead branch of a tree, and then went moving about. I was mortally afraid of his stumbling against something and spoiling the whole affair.
The senate could have been in no humour for another African war; they regarded their policy as closed in that quarter of the world; they had shifted the burden of frontier defence on to the Kings of Numidia, and must have viewed with alarm the prospect of something far worse than a frontier war arising from the quarrels of those kings.
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