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But Richard strode up and down, treading heedlessly on the flouncings of her dress. "What? and let him believe such behaviour can go unpunished? That whenever it pleases him, he can insult my wife insult my wife? Make her the talk of the place? Brand her before the whole town as a light woman?" "Oh, not the whole town, Richard.
Yet it was only yesterday that he had wandered over half Paris in search of something to bring his schedule back to normal. And he had found it in front of the Opera House at eleven o'clock at night. Monte strode into his hotel with a snap that made the little clerk glance up in surprise. "Any mail for me?" he inquired. "A telephone message, monsieur." He handed Monte an envelope.
But still the cricket chirped, and still his musical monotone seemed to say, "The king the king," until, with an angry frown, Rodolph strode from his house, leaving the child to hear the cricket's song alone. But there were other voices to remind Rodolph of the king. The sparrows were fluttering under the eaves, and they twittered noisily as Rodolph strode along, "The king, king, king!"
And there's a train due." She hurried into the open air, not daring to look back or to either side. Her guide strode swiftly. She had almost to run to keep up with him. Many conflicting emotions confused her. She had a strange sense of this stalking giant beside her, silent except for his jangling spurs. She had a strange feeling of the cool, sweet wind and the white stars.
Thoughtfully Dorn strode on in the direction indicated, and presently he arrived at the end of the village, where in an old orchard he found a low, rambling, dilapidated barn, before which clusters of soldiers in blue lounged around smoking fires. As he drew closer he saw that most of them seemed fixed in gloomy abstraction.
"Why do you say meeting place, Grandmother Whom do you think I am going to meet there?" "The blessed Saints protect you," she replied, "less you should meet Whom you would not." Antoine strode out again, without saying more. He fancied he was in the Valley of Dwarfs already, about to meet Marie.
And the old fellow got ever so much excited; and strode up and down, his tongue going like a mill, asking question after question and never waiting for an answer; and finally he stood Joan up in the middle of the room and stepped off and scanned her critically, and said: "No I don't understand it. You are so little. So little and slender.
Kenny strode to the fireplace with Hughie at his heels and jerked impatiently at the mantel. It was sturdy and unyielding. "I feared so," he said with a shrug. Hughie seized the lamp. "Hold the lamp, Mr. O'Neill," he begged, crouching. "I've got to look at them bricks. Careful, sir! You're tipping it." Huddled in the glare of the lamp they stared in fascination at the smoky bricks.
I was at this instant utterly indifferent as to whether I was met by a refusal or not; it was all the same to me what reply the man gave me, so I stood and waited for it. "Well, no," he replied; "unless it chanced to be a young fellow." "A young fellow!" I pulled myself together, took off my glasses furtively and thrust them into my pocket, stepped up the gangway, and strode on deck.
He strode up and down the room in a state of extreme excitement. "As a last desperate chance, I attempted to send you a message by means of the phonograph record. I hoped you might, in this way, learn the secret of the box, and by destroying the key, render it useless.
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