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"What's his name?" asked Laurie, as he helped Miss Mayo into a waiting taxicab. She looked startled. Indeed, his most casual questions seemed to startle her and put her, in a way, on her guard. "Shaw," she answered, unwillingly. "Is it spelled P-s-h-a-w?" Laurie asked the question with polite interest.
"Then if you are not here, I am to conclude that you are dead," was the reply. As he did not come, Harriet drove to the newspaper offices in Boston that afternoon, and the next morning the community was startled to read of Dr. 's sudden death. Friends hastened to the house, and messages of condolence came pouring in. It is probable that he was more punctual after this.
After a little there was a knock at the door, but the young man paid no attention to it. In another moment there was another louder one, which startled him, but still he read on. In a moment the door opened, and in came a fine large devil who angrily asked, "What do you call me for?" The frightened youth answered very much like those naughty boys who say "I didn't do nothing!"
"No, no, no!" he cried, clutching at her dress, as though to stay her going. "Don't leave me. I am not hurt at least, I can walk and stand easily enough, though I have been hurt set upon, and treated like like a dog by him " "By whom, Hugo?" said Angela, startled by the tenor of his incoherent sentences. "Who has set upon you and ill-treated you?" But Hugo hid his face.
How terrible to me is the thought that I whom all the world has always regarded as an honest man am an unconfessed murderer!" The very air seemed to repeat his words "a murderer!" and the old butler for it was he shuddered, as he muttered half aloud: "I never meant to do it, God knows!" Suddenly the sound of wheels smote his startled ear. "A runaway!" he cried.
A great wave of crimson suddenly passed over Enid's pallid cheeks and brow. She raised a pair of startled eyes to the Rector's' face, and then said quickly "Did she tell you?" "No, Miss Vane, she did not." "Then will you promise me," said Enid, with sudden earnestness, "never to ask her again?" "How can I do that?
Franklin's next words: "I am now going to drop a letter in the box. It's for you. Get it at once. It is of the utmost importance." Doris was startled, as well she might be. But she went straight for the letter. It was marked: "Private and Urgent," and ran: DEAR MISS MARTIN. I am here vice Mr. Furneaux, who is engaged on other phases of the same inquiry. My business is absolutely unknown.
While keeping an eye on the bottom of the ravine up which the tiger was expected to pass, I was suddenly startled by a roar from some little distance behind us.
Then there came to his ears the sound that had stopped Croisset a low, moaning whine which seemed to have neither beginning nor end, but which was borne in on his senses as though it were a part of the soft movement of the air he breathed a note of infinite sadness which held him startled and without movement, as it held Jean Croisset.
Mercier answered, somewhat startled. "Is that so?" "It is very much so," the other returned with something of a sneer. "And they do not!" quoth the vintner with a faint smile. "Well, professors do not!" the merchant answered with a grimace. "I say nothing of others. Let the Venerable Company of Pastors see to it. It is their business." At this point the host brought in lights.
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