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Tom and Peter drew themselves up and saluted stiffly. "You need not be buglers here, boys," Captain Manley said. "This is my room, we are all gentlemen, and though I could not, according to the regulations, walk down the street with you, the strictest disciplinarian would excuse my doing as I like here."
"And your father and sister?" "Quite well, thank you," said Harry, very stiffly. "I would have come down to you at the rectory," said Mr. Saul, "instead of bringing you up here; only, as you have heard, no doubt, I and your father have unfortunately had a difference." This Mr. Saul said without any apparent effort, and then left Harry to commence the further conversation.
'I cannot affect, Anastasie, to be anything but justly wounded. I feel this, I feel it, my wife, acutely. 'I knew you would, she said. 'But if you had seen his distress! We must make allowances, we must sacrifice our feelings. 'I trust, my dear, you have never found me averse to sacrifices, returned the Doctor very stiffly. 'And you will let me go and tell him that you have agreed?
Dicksie walked around on the porch to the kitchen. A dust-covered man sitting on a limp horse threw back the brim of his hat as he touched it, lifted himself stiffly out of the saddle, and dropped to the ground. He laughed at Dicksie's startled expression. "Don't you know me?" he asked, putting out his hand. It was Whispering Smith. He was a fearful sight.
Signora Bolla, allow me to introduce to you Mme. Zita Reni." The gipsy glanced round at Gemma with a half defiant air and bowed stiffly.
They came aboard stiffly hostile most understandably so, under the circumstances and Prince Trevannion exerted all his copious charm to thaw them out, beginning with the pre-dinner cocktails and continuing through the meal. By the time they retired for coffee and brandy to the parlor where the conference was to be held, the Lords-ex-Masters were almost friendly.
He found just such a man as he had pictured a lightly-loving, pleasure-taking roysterer, with never a thought beyond the amusement which the hour afforded him. With curling lip Garnache bowed stiffly, and in a cold, formal voice he announced himself. "My name is Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache.
With that, he called to his men, who came trooping into the kitchen one after another, and piled their arms in a corner. And then they stood about, as soldiers do; now, with their hands loosely clasped before them; now, resting a knee or a shoulder; now, easing a belt or a pouch; now, opening the door to spit stiffly over their high stocks, out into the yard.
Instead her blue eyes, deep and glowing, wandered down along the southern slopes and she was lost in unconscious dreams. Once again she saw the trim figure of the forest man as she had seen him come stiffly into her range of vision that day in Corvan. She recalled his quiet eyes, dark and speaking, the odd way his hair went straight back from his forehead.
It seemed an interminable time; in reality, in about ten minutes Joe's head appeared at the door of the car and he climbed stiffly in. Drenched he was from top to toe. The water streaked down his checks in little streams; his clothes flapped and clung to him as though he had been flung into the river; his cap was a sodden, pulpy mass. But he chuckled as he slid over in behind the wheel.
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