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As he spoke he fastened the loose cord about his neck, and when it was quite secure he told the Black Rogue to take the other end of the rope and draw him up from the ground. 'When I am tired of it I will shake my legs, and then you must let me down, said he. The Black Rogue drew up the rope, but in half a minute the Shifty Lad's legs began to shake, and he quickly let it down again.
Fruit of many acceptable varieties can be grown to perfection with little labour in immense quantities. Coffee is one of the most prolific of crops. Timber is obtainable in magnificent assortment and unrealisable quantities. Poultry and pigs multiply extraordinarily. Apart from bananas the fruit trade is shifty and treacherous.
She had told me, bit by bit, under pressure, a great deal; but a small shifty spot on the wrong side of it all still sometimes brushed my brow like the wing of a bat; and I remember how on this occasion for the sleeping house and the concentration alike of our danger and our watch seemed to help I felt the importance of giving the last jerk to the curtain.
I had a religion; I suppose it had its weaknesses and its faults; but most of it was good sound stone, and it certainly had served. But it serves no longer, not because it's damaged, but because the need for it has changed its nature or is no longer there." He trailed off into silence and stopped. Arnold stirred to get out his pouch. "The sea is shifty, though," he said.
Field, who faced him with tears of fervent sympathy in her eyes. "Isn't it awful?" she said, in a half whisper. "Poor fellow, what will become of him?" "Oh, I don't know. He'll get along some way. Such fellows do. I've had 'em before. They try it awhile here; then they move. I can't worry about them." Mrs. Field was not listening to his shifty words.
They were shifty, crafty eyes that took one's measure when one least expected them to do so. Over the motive which had moved her father to retire from business while still in his prime Sheila did not speculate. Nor had she speculated when he had bought the Double R ranch and announced his intention to spend the remainder of his days on it.
Miss Sampson bent eyes upon me that would have stirred a stone man. "Yes, he was once," I replied ambiguously, but mayhap my grimness betrayed the truth. "Don't hurry me, Sally. I guarantee you'll be sick enough presently. "Well, I kept my eyes shifty. And I reckon I'll never forget that room. Likely I saw what wasn't really there.
His eyes bore a shifty gleam. "Get out, you cur!" He kicked at the dog with his heavy boot. Marian's eyes flashed, but she said nothing. "This the post office?" The man attempted a smile. "Yes, sir." "'S there a letter here for me?" "I don't know," she smiled. "Won't you come in?" The man came inside. "Now," she said, "I'll see. What is your name?" "Ben " he hesitated. "Oh that don't matter.
But she was not as skilful as the Wise Man, and the Shifty Lad felt the touch of her fingers; so as soon as the dance was over he contrived to place a second black dot on the faces of the twenty men and two more on the Wizard, after which he slipped the bottle into her pocket.
He was tall, like his father, but there the resemblance paused. The promoter's shifty blue eyes were always at the point of lighting up with enthusiasm; the son's, of precisely the same hue, were cold and calmly calculating. The human polyhedron has as many facets as a curiously-cut gem, and Vincent Farley's gift lay in the ability always to present the same side to the same person.
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