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"She is well out at the end of the spit, lads," observed old Hadden; "we may get close enough for them to heave a rope on board us, if she hangs together, and I don't see that there is much doubt about her doing that." They pulled on for some time, without any one again speaking.
I mean to play this afternoon; and never again in all my life. Sir, I am resolved." "Oh, if you are resolved, there is no more to be said. I won't run my head against a brick wall." Ina, being half a foreigner, thought this rather brusk. She looked at him askant, and said, quietly, "Others, besides me, can be stubborn, and get their own way, while speaking the language of submission.
Juliet laughed and went out into the yard to meet several young men who were coming up the walk, and Nicholas noticed with a jealous pang that she sat with them beneath the myrtle and talked in the same soft voice with the same radiant smile. She was not speaking of heaven now.
He went to the fire and snatched up a burning peat, moving it rapidly from hand to hand, and blowing it into a red glow with his misty breath. Then when he had warmed himself, he took out his dirk and cut up some wood for the fire, making the flames rise high about the pot until the water began to simmer. Elspeth, without speaking, brought him an oaten cake, which he ravenously devoured.
But the Water Witch was not, properly speaking, a vessel of war. She was a small steamer engaged in a scientific enterprise intended for the advantage of commercial states generally. Under these circumstances I am constrained to consider the attack upon her as unjustifiable and as calling for satisfaction from the Paraguayan Government.
Now, her mind was still too active to avoid the recollection of its sequel. "What is it, mother dearest?" So Gwen heard her daughter speaking to her, trying for a clue to the cause of some symptom of a concealed distress. Then Granny Marrable: "Yes, Maisie darling, what is it. Tell us." Some answer came, which caused Ruth to say: "Shall I ask her ladyship to come?"
The worthiest man may thus be committed by a letter which he has never read, or the purport of which is wholly unintelligible to him. I am speaking from personal experience. It once happened that a letter addressed to myself, relating to an alleged fact which had never occurred, was opened.
He was so interested in the crowd on the quay that he did not hear his father speaking to him. "I want to speak to you, Henry," the old man said, and then receiving no answer, he said again, "I want to speak to you, Henry!" "Yes, father?" Henry answered, without looking up. "Turn round a minute, Henry!..." He hesitated, and Henry turning round, saw that his father was embarrassed.
At no time did Lydia's suitor show to better advantage than in speaking of his profession. The alertness of his face and the prompt decision of his speech suited the subject.
She looked at him a moment in surprise, for there was something peculiar in his manner. She felt half angry with him for sitting so still, and speaking so briefly, while she herself was trembling with delight. "Have you told Miss Valery?" He shook his head. "Ah, then, go at once and tell her, so happy as she will be! Do go." "Presently. Come and sit down here. I want to talk to you, Agatha."
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