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"It is the only way that I can see of getting things straightened out. She acknowledged that she liked me before she heard this accursed story, and if I had her to myself I have no doubt that I could make her like me again in spite of it." "It is a risky thing to carry a woman off in our days," Conkling said, thoughtfully, "and a deuced difficult one to do.
A puzzled look passed again over Meynell's face. But he said nothing. His attitude, coldly expectant, demanded the story. Barron told it once more. He repeated Judith Sabin's narrative in the straightened, rearranged form he had now given to it, postponing, however, any further mention of Meynell's relation to it till a last dramatic moment. He did not find his task so easy on this occasion.
She felt Marsh's eyes on her, sardonically. She straightened herself, saying with affectionate roughness, "There, that's enough. Scamper along with you. And don't run around with bare feet!" She thought to herself that she supposed this was the sort of thing Marsh meant when he spoke about hot-house enervating concentration.
Can he ever forget the trust, the radiance, the restfulness in the shy, sudden look she gives him? His heart bounds with the sight; his pulse throbs hard as he holds forth his hand, and, for the first time, her soft warm palm is clasped in his. "Don't worry one bit, Miss Bessie; we'll have this matter straightened out at once."
Thieves, eh? and not a policeman on the beat!" Just at that moment the figure straightened itself up, and quick as thought Sam stepped close back to the entrance and behind a hanging rug, which hid him from the figure but enabled him to watch its proceedings. Sam's first idea was to shout for help to capture the thief, but he checked himself. "Wouldn't do," he thought. "This sort's too slippery.
With stoical calm, Zara had arisen and closed the dead woman's eyes, folded the hands, straightened the stiffening limbs, and composed the humble covering. She had no tears, she uttered no cry her face was stern as stone. "Better stay in this ghastly place no longer, Sir Jasper," the rector suggested. "You look completely overcome. I will see that everything is properly done.
The big, flat footsteps, absolutely fresh in the dust, padded methodically ahead of us down the only way until it seemed that we could not fail to plump upon their maker around the next bend. We crept forward foot by foot, every sense alert, finger on trigger. Then after a time the spoor turned off to the right, towards the hills. We straightened our backs and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm very sorry," he said after a moment. "Did I upset the beer?" "You did all over me," laughed the Doctor. "Get your boots off and turn in." "I'm so cursed sleepy." The Kid was removing his sodden puttees. "I've walked, and walked, and I'm just about " He straightened himself in his chair, and as he did so the words died away on his lips.
He saw Barbara smiling and nodding as much as to say, "Think it out, Don." Suddenly he straightened. "You mean that because Tim played fair that once " "Just the way you pitched your curve that once," said his father. Don sighed. It was funny how his troubles dropped away when he brought them home. Monday there was another patrol meeting.
Lacheneur straightened himself up, and seemed to be gathering all his energy for the decisive moment. "Remain inside," he said, imperiously, to Antoine and his wife. "I am going out; they must not arrest me in your house." As he spoke, he stepped outside the door, with a firm tread, a dauntless brow, a calm and assured mien. The soldiers were but a few feet from him.
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