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"But, Walter, you couldn't go anyhow," said Rilla piteously. She was sick with a new terror that Walter would go after all. "You're not strong enough." "I am. I've felt as fit as ever I did this last month. I'd pass any examination I know it. Everybody thinks I'm not strong yet and I'm skulking behind that belief. I I should have been a girl," Walter concluded in a burst of passionate bitterness.
All night long the Indians kept prowling about the tent, coming in, going out, returning; they resembled, at times, a pack of wolves skulking around their prey, and, at times, they appeared to resemble a herd of demons as we see them represented in tho most extravagant of frightful pictures. However, Pritchard spoke to them and their attentions became less annoying.
Why didn't you give your right name to Loveday? And what are you doing here?" "I was just examining this lovely old church, with its two south aisles, and one north, like St. John's at Cirencester. When the church fell in England, architecture was abolished But as to why I am in Norfolk at all, I am skulking: and here is as another place.
But already A'tim was skulking toward a small canvas tent, gleaming white beside the blue waters of Battle River. The Bull lay down to conceal his great bulk, and watched apprehensively the foray of his pillaging comrade. A'tim circled until he was down wind from the teepee.
"You can't think me half such a fool, Lizzie, as I think myself," pursued Kirke, bitterly. "A man at my age ought to know better. I didn't set eyes on her for as much as a minute altogether; and there I have been hanging about the place till after nightfall on the chance of seeing her again skulking, I should have called it, if I had found one of my men doing what I have been doing myself.
I will tell you my first foe and Fanny's grandfather! Now, note the justice of Fate: here is this man mark well this man who commenced life by putting his faults on my own shoulders! From that little boss has fungused out a terrible hump. I vagabond outcast skulking through tricks to avoid crime why the difference?
"You must go, sir; at once, please." "I'm going," said Hardy, almost losing his gravity at the piteous spectacle afforded by the house-keeper as she stood, still holding the tray and staring open-mouthed at the combatants. "When you're tired of skulking in bed, perhaps you'll come and do your share of the work." Mr.
Slipping out of their saddles, four of the Aphrodite's crew opened fire, and brought five of the robber tribesmen headlong to earth, while the sixth saved his skin by falling with his wounded camel and skulking unnoticed to the hills along the water-course.
"You are surprised that an old acquaintance of mine should be here on board my ship, lurking and skulking as a stowaway?" "Well," answered Doctor Anderson, in a constrained manner, "if I confess the honest plain truth, I am." "It is simple enough; the man did not know that he was on my vessel, or it would be about the last vessel in the world he would have chosen for refuge." "Refuge?"
They distressed our merchants, and obliged us to the continual expense of convoys and fleets of observation; and, by skulking in little coves and shallow waters, escaped our pursuit.
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