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They would prefer to be out-of-doors. Vere loved the garden. Or they might be on the terrace. She stepped into the hall and went to the servants' staircase. Now she herd voices, a laugh. "Giulia!" she called. The voices stopped talking, but it was Gaspare who came in answer to her call. She looked down to him. "Don't come up, Gaspare. Where is the Signorina?"
They took the bait like gudgeons; they stepped into the automobile without a fear, and whizz! it was off to the mill like that! La, la, la! We win, we win, we win!" The shock of the thing was too much for Cleek.
When his joy had a little subsided, he stepped into the sea; ten miles at the first stride, which brought him mid-leg deep; and ten miles at the second, when the water came just above his knees; and ten miles more at the third, by which he was immersed nearly to his waist. This was the greatest depth of the sea.
She even began to work again, but rather with a view to making herself useful to her friends than to satisfy any ambition or craving of her own. Whatever she did, however, she approached in the spirit of the great musician who dressed himself in his best, and prayed as at a solemn service, when he shut himself up to compose. Beth had stepped away from the old forms by this time.
My doubted and dangerous companion signed to me to enter the carriage the man who had ridden on the left side of my horse stepped in after me, and drawing up the blinds of the vehicle, gave the signal for instant departure.
If any of the crew did resent his presence forward, he would have proof that they were wary of being spied upon. That, if nothing more, would indicate to him that his suspicions were well founded. He got out of his bunk with great care and struck a match. Then he stepped boldly into the cabin and turned down the lamp until the wick snuffed out the flame.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon I cashed in my checks and started to my room. I was walking down Clark Street, and was near the corner of Madison, when this fellow Lawler stepped out and began firing at me. The first shot would have hit me in the breast if I had not thrown up my arm; as it was, it struck me on the wristbone and ran up my arm near the shoulder.
Citizens! ye Elders of Argos present here." "Who was Agamemnon?" I whispered. "He gave Cassandra her last ride." "Did he upset her?" "Study Greek and you will know," she replied, frowning at him as he stepped from the platform. We went to walk in Silver Street after school, and he joined us. "Do you read Greek?" he asked her.
No one came out, though my horse's hoofs fell hard enough upon the stones to tell them of my coming; and when I got down at the gate I found a horse tied to the fence. Some person, eager to bear evil tidings, had forestalled me. I led my horse to the stable, went to the house, and had just stepped into the passage when Parker, the deputy sheriff, came out of the sitting-room.
The child made no objection, but Felicite sighed and thought Madame was heartless. Then, she thought that perhaps her mistress was right, as these things were beyond her sphere. Finally, one day, an old fiacre stopped in front of the door and a nun stepped out.
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