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Lord! what was that? For the first time he was tense, as if a stern hand had been laid upon his shoulder. He looked fearfully around. Not a soul was present. Not a sound. Some one was shuffling by on the sidewalk. He took the box and the money and put it back in the safe. Then he partly closed the door again.
"I am sorry, Hugh," she said. "I knew not it was so serious. It is hard to realise that you are no more a boy, and must have the sorrows my sex provides for you. I like her, and I would help you if I could, but you are late." And she went on shuffling the cards, while I took up a book, being inclined to say no more. That evening two letters came by the New York packet.
Silently as ghosts the pair slid through the open doorway into the corridor, drawing the door to and closing it behind them in the very nick of time; for as Phil released his hold upon the handle he heard the door leading from the kitchen to the refectory open, the hitherto subdued sounds of activity in the kitchen suddenly became greatly intensified, while voices and the sound of shuffling sandals on the stone floor of the refectory came through the door which he had just closed.
Simmons, who had been shuffling about with a decanter and hospitable suggestions, had disappeared into the dining- room. "Well," said Dr. Lavendar, "why don't you tell him? Though in fact, perhaps he is to blame in some way that we don't know? You remember, he said he had 'angered the boy'?" "No; that wasn't it," said William. Dr. Lavendar looked at him with sudden attention.
The fellow was in the midst of an acre of sprawling boots, and he had a boot in his hand, shuffling it no, I mean POLISHING it. The mystery was explained. He hadn't been dancing. He was the "Boots" of the hotel, and was attending to business.
"The sacristan to the poor, 'Get away, all of you; the money for you has been given to us; don't ask for any more." "Done to the life!" cried Couture. And indeed it seemed to us that we heard all that went on in the church. Bixiou imitated everything, even the shuffling sound of the feet of the men that carried the coffin over the stone floor.
Shocked and terrified boy takes flight, seeks his fortune, gets aboard ship, ultimately turns up on dry land among the Cape wine: small proprietor, farmer, grower whatever you like to call it. At this juncture, shuffling is heard in the hall, and tapping is heard at the dining-room door.
Puzzled at Quantrell's sudden hesitation after his earlier cockiness, Alan took a couple of shuffling steps toward the bridge, slowly, keeping his eyes on the other starman. "I can't go with you," Kevin finally managed to say. His face was flushed and strained-looking. He was staring upward at the seemingly topless towers of the city. "It's too big for me." He choked back a half-whimper.
'Well, of course, if you wait till he's made a hit, prices will go up, said Eugénie, calmly. 'I advise you to agree with him quickly, while you are in the way with him. 'I never asked him to paint you, said Lord Findon, hastily, swallowing a sip of tea under the regulation time, and frowning at the misdeed. 'Oh, shuffling papa! Come how much? two hundred? 'Upon my word!
Again I knocked; then feet came shuffling along the passage. The door opened and Jonah appeared; his eyes were not dull with sleep but seemed to blaze with some strong excitement; he had not been to his bed, for his dress was not disordered, and a light burnt bright in my parlour.
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