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As if by an involuntary effort, he had drawn his horse almost upon his haunches: and was now stiffly seated in the saddle, with blanched cheeks and eyes sparkling in their sockets as if some object of terror was before him! I did not ask for an explanation. I knew that the object that so strangely affected him must be visible though not from the point where I had halted.

The fireplace was filled with cedar boughs and sweet-smelling myrtle. Two "boughten" rocking-chairs of painted wood confronted each other primly from opposite ends of the rug. Half a dozen straight-back chairs, also "boughten," were disposed stiffly against the walls.

Behind him the two beasts leaped noiselessly together and all three were gone. Tau swayed, put his hand to his head. Dane kicked away the drum, arose from his cramped position stiffly to go to him. But the medic was not yet done. He returned to stand over the prostrate native hunters and he clapped his hands sharply. "You are men, and you shall act as men henceforth. That which was, is no longer.

"What I meant to suggest, Mr Cavendish," responded Roger rather stiffly, and not one whit abashed by his commander's testiness, "was that perchance this man knows the shoals and rocks round the island well. He may perceive that we are sailing into danger, and wish to warn us from approaching any closer before it be too late."

Bright, dark eyes stared roundly, and as Mac glowered astonished at the apparition, a mouth full of gleaming teeth opened, smiling, to say in a very small voice: "Farva!" Astonished as Mac was, disappointed and relieved all at once, there was something arresting in the appeal. "I'm not your father," he said stiffly. "Who're you? Hey? You speak English?"

The King, scarcely master of himself, at once began to go towards the apartment of Monseigneur, and repelled very stiffly the indiscreet eagerness of some courtiers who wished to prevent him, saying that he would see his son again, and be quite certain that nothing could be done.

A camp-chair creaked under the descending Rajput's weight, and creaked again as he remembered to settle himself less stiffly less guiltily. "I say, I'm going to ask you chaps to do me a favor. You don't mind obliging me now and then, do you?"

The peasant lads, who had before been restlessly shuffling about on the benches, with their pipes in their mouths and their legs stretched out stiffly in front of them, were positively transformed, and, with their gay handkerchiefs hanging from the button-holes of their coats, capered about with the lasses so that it was a pleasure to look at them.

I repeated, in unbounded astonishment. "Is the man mad," I thought, "to make me such a proposition within ten minutes after my return home?" "Oui, oui, Monsieur, you shall go with me. I have some very important things to communicate to you." "Mais, Monsieur," replied I, pretty stiffly, "I do not know what you can have to communicate to me. I am a good deal surprised at so strange a proposition"

"I'm damned if I know why," observed the old King. "She doesn't appear to have a single human quality." Human quality! General Mettlich eyed his king with concern. Since when had the reigning family demanded human qualities in their governesses? "She is a thoughtful and conscientious woman, sire," he said stiffly. It happened that he had selected her. "She does her duty.