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Carelessly throwing his cigar over the balustrade, he rose from his seat, and stood leaning on another chair a short distance away. Laura, meantime, had not moved, except to place her left hand on a cushion and lean her head wearily against it. She still sat motionless, her gaze steadfastly fixed on the road in the pass. Brockton broke the rather awkward silence. "A real man?" he echoed.
The Chinaman at the right of Li Choo looked steadfastly at him; then, all at once, he bared his shoulders and quickly bound a piece of sackcloth round his head. This done, he raised his voice and cried out with a monotonous ululation, and at once a second voice cried out in a long wailing call.
"You believe in square dealing between man and man?" "Certainly." "You believe in good deeds, candor, and steadfastness?" "I do." "You believe in justice, equality of opportunity, and in liberty?" "Certainly I do." "You believe, in short, that a man should do unto others as he'd have others do unto him; think right and live out his thoughts?" "All that I steadfastly believe."
I hate illness of all sorts." The woman looked at him steadfastly, looked at him as though she had come into contact with some strange creature. "Do you understand what it is that I am saying?" she demanded. "This girl was once your little friend, is it not so? It was for your sake that she gave up the simple life she was living when you first knew her, and went upon the stage.
She went on stitching as though nothing had happened, but her hands trembled, and once she threw back her head as though fighting down a strong emotion. But he had ceased to watch her. He was leaning a little forward, one elbow resting on his knee, his eyes fixed steadfastly in front of him. "Can I be the bearer of any messages?" he asked at last. "No, thank you. I write regularly.
And Brent's eyes looked full into those of his friend, straightly and steadfastly. "Not now. I will do the work appointed for me to the end!" "Thank God!" said Walden, simply. And their hands met in a close grasp, thereby sealing a wordless compact, never to be broken. The sun sank and the moon began to rise.
"Well, go. I'll to the oasis of Sheba," said Dismas. "Dismas, I hate you," growled the other. Dismas said nothing, and steadfastly looked at the sky, which had not for a long while been so softly sunless as to-day. "Since the day when you refused to help me hold up the caravan of Orientals with my men, I have hated you. They had much frankincense and precious spices and gold.
Take a look for yourself, Ned." The other lad did, and confirmed his chum's news, and then Mr. Damon also made sure, by using the glass. "No doubt of it," the odd man said. "But what are you going to do, Tom?" Our hero thought for a moment. Then, once more, he looked steadfastly through the glass at the other carts.
And though the Apostles did likewise evermore and steadfastly teach, that magistrates ought to be obeyed, "that every soul ought to be subject to the higher powers, not only for fear of wrath and punishment, but even for conscience sake;" yet bare they the name to disquiet the people, and to stir up the multitude to rebel.
"That so?" he remarked indifferently. "Well, Mr. Dane, I have heard a good deal about you American detectives. Pleased to meet you. What can I do for you?" The detective eyed Philip steadfastly. There was just the shadow of something that looked like admiration in his hard, grey eyes. "Well, Mr. Ware," he said, "nothing that need disturb your supper party, I am sure.
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