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At last, with his habitual shrug of the shoulders, he was taking up his brushes, when he heard some words stammered amidst a rustling of bed-clothes. Then, however, soft breathing was heard again, and this time he yielded to the temptation, dropping his brushes, and peeping from behind the screen.
They've worked this same thing in four cities already, and both of them have done time, and lots of it. They've only been out six months. No need to worry over them," he concluded with a shrug of the shoulders. So the furs were restored and the gold and the jewels parcelled out among the owners, and in due course Mr. Yahi-Bahi and Mr.
When I first saw her dance three years ago in the garden of the old Posada at the birthday fête of Señora Fernandez, I knew instantly that she was either possessed of the devil or the ancient muse of dance; also, why Don Felipe Ramirez went mad over her. "Dios! she's a strange woman almost mysterious at times!" he added reflectively, with a shrug of the shoulders and gesture of the hands.
Have Bab; she will enjoy it, and amuse you with her chatter." "As if I needed girls round for such a trifle as that!" returned Thorny with a shrug, though he groaned inwardly at the prospect before him, as most of us do on such occasions. "I wouldn't take Bab at any price; she'd only get into some scrape, and upset the whole plan.
"This is a terrible place, with panthers hanging around, and that thunder banging to beat the band every minute or so. I'm only wondering, Frank, what would become of us if that old geyser should take a notion to explode suddenly, and flush every avenue out of the heart of the mountain." "Don't mention it, please," Frank answered, with a shrug of his shoulders.
Archer mysteriously forth into the dark courtyard, took him by the button, and laid a demonstrative finger on his chest; but there his ideas or his courage failed him; he would shufflingly excuse himself and return to his position by the fire without a word of explanation. "The good man was growing old," said Mr. Archer with a suspicion of a shrug.
His father and mother would have a fit if he didn't develop into the traditional fat old banker himself, and beget another of the same ilk to follow on. "I daresay with me he would have developed a little more soul, and a little less stomach but what of it? " with a graceful shrug.
Bickerton has too many children, and the children have too many ailments for her ever to dine out. 'That will do; I see the existence, said Langham with a shrug. 'But he has the look of an apostle, though a rather hunted one. Probably nobody here, except Robert, is fit to tie his shoes. The Squire could hardly be called empressé, said Rose, after a second, with a curl of her red lips. Mr.
And there was whispering and talking softly all around the room among the machines: 'Shall we wait like this? 'There is a general strike, 'Who will get up first? 'It would be better to be the last to get up, and then the company might remember it of you afterward, and do well for you, But I told them," observed Natalya, with a little shrug, "'What difference does it make which one is first and which one is last? Well, so we stayed whispering, and no one knowing what the other would do, not making up our minds, for two hours.
He was sore grieved when he saw greedy, worldly Barons clutch hold of the Church's property; when he expostulated that it was not secular property, that it was spiritual property, and should be turned to true churchly uses, education, schools, worship; and the Regent Murray had to answer, with a shrug of the shoulders, "It is a devout imagination!"
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