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Gussie, who sat opposite, also noticed it, and remembering her promise to Dexie, began: "Oh! Mr. Plaisted, I'm afraid you do not care for shad! How unfortunate that we happen to have it for dinner to-day! We are all very fond of shad, myself especially, and this is very nicely cooked, just to my liking," and she gave Dexie a sideward look.
Mid-way, however, I was saved: a whisper, intense as lightning, arrested me: 'Forward is no escape, nor backward, but sideward there may be a way! And at a sudden impulse, before I knew what I was doing, I was in the water swimming. The smaller of the islands was two hundred yards away, and thither I swam, rested some minutes, and thence to the Castle. I did not once look behind me.
No fabric made by human hands could have withstood the shock of the four explosions which burst out simultaneously. The sore-stricken leviathan stopped, shuddered and reeled, smitten to death. For a few moments she floundered and wallowed in the vast masses of foaming water that rose up round her and when they sank she took a mighty sideward reel and followed them.
A few moments ago, I made up my mind." And, with a gesture, he described the arrival of the idea, apparently from heaven, upon his head, and then a sideward jerk of the arm seemed to indicate the sudden and irrevocable making up of his own mind. "But what for?" cried the lady. "You were not even born there. Your father died thirty years ago you will not even find his tomb.
Staff officer and surgeon were practically alone and the latter answered: "I mean, sir, that if that Apache knife had been driven in by an Apache warrior, Mullins would have been dead long hours ago which he isn't." Byrne turned a shade grayer. "Could she have done that?" he asked, with one sideward jerk of his head toward the major's quarters. "I'm not saying," quoth the Scot.
"You hadn't oughter say that, Evelina. We ain't so badly off as all that. I guess you're cold and tired. Set down while I take the kettle off: it's right on the boil." She pushed Evelina toward the table, keeping a sideward eye on her sister's listless movements, while her own hands were busy with the kettle. A moment later came the exclamation for which she waited. "Why, Ann Eliza!"
The Deacon grew uncomfortable beneath his sideward, estimating eye. "Deacon Allardyce, your heart's black-rotten," he said at last. The Deacon blinked and was silent. Tam had summed him up. There was no appeal. "John dear," said his mother that evening, "we'll take the big sofa into our bedroom, and make up a grand bed for ye, and then we'll be company to one another. Eh, dear?" she pleaded.
But I up and says to him, 'I have had enough o' you, says I, 'you and your Hoose wi' the Green Shutters, says I. 'You're no fit to have a decent servant, says I. 'Pay me my wages, and I'll be redd o' ye, says I. And wi' that I flang my kist on my shouther and slapped the gate ahint me." "And did he pay ye your wages?" Tam Wylie probed him slyly, with a sideward glimmer in his eye.
"They're there, all right," Skipper confided to him; and Jerry, with a sideward glance of smiling eyes, with a bobbing of his tail and a quick love-flattening of his ears, turned his nose shoreward again and resumed his reading of the jungle tale that was wafted to him on the light fans of the stifling and almost stagnant air. "Hey!" Van Horn suddenly shouted.
Alexis began to sing a Polonnaise, and, taking the hand of the empress, they commenced the practice of the new Polonnaise tour. "So, that is right," said he, interrupting his singing, "that is very fine. Now let go my hand and turn proudly and majestically around. Beautifully done! Now a half turn sideward. One, two, three la, la, la, tra la!"
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