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It was Eliza, and as they leaned over the parapet of the bridge, he could not keep himself from telling her that he had rowed out to Castle Island, never thinking that she would reprove him, and sternly, for taking the fisherman's boat without asking leave. It was no use to argue with Eliza that the fisherman didn't want his boat, the day being too rough for fishing.
Then, turning slow eyes to Flora, "How did he come by this?" he asked, as sternly as if he demanded it of the mystery itself. "He had it, from the very first." The pieces of the puzzle were flashing together in Flora's mind. "That first time Harry left the exhibit he took it there." "But the blue sapphire?" Chatworth insisted. "Harry," Flora whispered, "Harry gave it up to him."
‘Did you ever hear a tom-tom, sir?’ sternly inquired the captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his travels, real or pretended. ‘A what?’ asked Hardy, rather taken aback. ‘A tom-tom.’ ‘Never!’ ‘Nor a gum-gum?’ ‘Never!’ ‘What is a gum-gum?’ eagerly inquired several young ladies. The Ram started up—’ ‘Who?’ inquired the bald gentleman, intensely interested. ‘The Ram—Ram Chowdar—’
He had expected tears, passionate declamations, and reiterated assurances of the unalterable and indissoluble tie between herself and her lover, but this little indifferently-queried "No?" upset all his calculations. "Have you nothing to say?" he asked, somewhat sternly. "What should I say?" she responded, still smiling; "You are the King; it is for you to speak!"
When tackled on the subject of their religious opinions, most of them declined to answer, except Mr. Twitt, who, fixing a filmy eye sternly on the plain and gloomy face of Mr. Arbroath, said emphatically: "We aint no 'Igh Jinks!" "What do you mean, my man?" demanded Arbroath, with a dark smile.
When at last I rebuked him for his inhumanity, he seemed surprised; with difficulty remembered the circumstance, and then merely said, as if it were the most natural confession in the world, "Oh, nothing so discordant as a child's wail. I hate discords. I am pleased with the company of children; but they must be children who laugh and play. Well, why do you look at me so sternly?
The guide shook his head and strode over to the water hole, into which he peered. "You stay where you are!" he commanded sternly, to which there was no reply from the leader of the ruffians, who sat scowling up at him. "Mrs. Nesbit! Watch that fellow and if he tries to get out, drill him! He isn't fit to live anyway."
"Stop that mutiny and submit to your officers," insisted Commander Ennerling, sternly. "Do you want us to come aboard and wipe you out to the last man?" "You can't board us, from a craft of that kind," jeered the fellow at the yacht's rail. "You'll find we can, if we have to." "Come along, then!" "Do you realize, my man, that we are United States Naval officers?"
Oh, my prophetic soul! I felt it was Dick. Whilst F was huddling on some clothes I implored him to temper justice with mercy, but never a word did he say, and sternly took his gun in his hand and went out.
In days when volcanoes were playing in the Northwest and the sternly beautiful valley of the Columbia was a hell of ash and lava, the fiend men of the land met at intervals on the heated rocks to guzzle and riot together.
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