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He had no doubt that Jean was still a prisoner on the mountain top. The dogs and sledge were there and both rifles were where he had concealed them. It would be a hard race a running fight perhaps but he would win, and after a time Meleese would come to him, away down at the little hotel on the Saskatchewan. He rose to his feet, his blood growing warm, his eyes shining in the candle-light.
The window was shaded with calico curtains, the tin basin and dipper had been scoured to brightness, and beside them stood a cedar water-pail with shining brass hoops. "Ah," she said, with brightening face, "this is something like living." "Yes," answered Dr. Denslow, "I imagine it IS some improvement upon the sandy desert in which you spent the night.
"The diamond's gone!" exclaimed the Major, fixing his shining eyes upon me, whilst I observed that his fingers convulsively stroked his thumbs as though he were rolling up pellets of bread or paper. "Do you tell me the diamond's been taken from the place you hid it in?" said Captain North, still speaking softly, but with deliberation.
After dinner the two friends spread their saddle-blankets upon the grass, and stretched themselves thereon in attitudes of comfort, from which they could look out across the shining surface of the lake; and soon their talk almost entirely ceased. Then, for a while, they lay dreaming the time away in happy waking dreams of the future.
"Bored!" echoed Dinah, with shining eyes. "I think you are simply wonderful. I hope I hope Sir Eustace realizes it." "I hope he does," agreed Scott with a twinkle. "He has ample opportunities for doing so. Ah, there he is! He is actually skating alone. What has become of the beautiful Miss de Vigne, I wonder." They walked on, nearing the rink.
Everidge spoke the last words softly and Evadne, looking at her uplifted face, shining now with the radiance which always filled it when she spoke of her Lord, saw again that glowing face which she had watched across the gate at Hollywood and heard the strange, exultant tones, 'He is my King! Ah, that was beautiful! That was what Aunt Marthe meant, and Pompey and Dyce.
The accepted lover, at that moment being whirled back by express train to Glasgow, would not have approved of those warm words, nor of the light shining all over the girl's sweet face as she uttered them. But he would have been compelled to admit that in Gladys's old companion of the slums he had no mean rival. The St.
It wants but ten minutes to dinner-time. What have you been doing?" Macleod jumped up with some shamefacedness, and began to array himself quickly. "Macleod," said the major, subsiding into the big armchair very carefully so as not to crease his shining shirt-front, "I must give you another piece of advice. It is serious.
Another old man, at the next stopping-place, made a beautiful picture, as he sat inside his open door, in a great, rough, home-made armchair, with a black bear-skin for a pillow, a large, strong man, with long, shining, silver hair. We were very much pleased to find that we were to spend the night there, he looked so interesting.
Twice we had to return for some distance the way we had come, but perseverance conquered all difficulties, and at length we gained a ridge, far away beyond which we saw stretching a magnificent country, a stream flowing down from the mountains, a wide extent of prairie, a shining lake, and an extensive forest, with trees of giant growth.
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