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On the other hand, it would not hurt me to let you go. 'Indeed! he said contemptuously, looking at me as I should look at a lackey. 'No! I replied. 'For if you were to say that you had struck Gil de Berault and left the ground with a whole skin, no one would believe you. 'Gil de Berault! he exclaimed frowning. 'Yes, Monsieur, I replied suavely. 'At your service. You did not know my name?
There was a frantic rush at the stolid Hippopotamus in response to this suggestion, but they might as well have tried to batter down the rock of Gibraltar by hurling feathers against it, so firmly fixed in his seat was this passenger of outrageous weight. "Come again, gentlemen," said the Hippopotamus suavely.
Frank drew nearer Keenan, instinctively, wondering what the next movement would be. It was Pobloff's voice that first broke the silence. "This woman lies," he said, in his suavely scoffing baritone. "This woman " "Why don't you say something why don't you do something!" cried Frank, hysterically, turning to Keenan. "Ring the bell!" commanded Keenan. "It's useless the wires are cut," she panted.
"I want a little talk with you," said the other suavely, "a little, quiet, reasonable talk." "You'd better make it short," said the Jew. "My time is valuable." The brown man smiled, and raised his hand with a deprecatory gesture. "Many things are valuable," said he, "but time is the most valuable of all. And time to us means life." The Jew saw the covert threat, and grew more irritable still.
"I was on duty outside the club, and heard almost every word that passed between you and Rachel." "Well, well." The Senator arose and pressed an electric bell. "If you don't mind," he explained suavely, "I'll order some coffee and rolls. Will you join me?" This was the parry of a skilled duelist to divert an attack and gain breathing-time. Clancy rather admired such adroitness.
"Did you get that, Miss Fortune?" asked Buckbee suavely, "the proposition is to issue a hundred million shares of common and start them at, say, ten cents a share. Then by a little manipulation we can raise them to twenty and thirty, and from that on up to a dollar. At that price, of course, you can unload if you wish: I'll keep you fully informed."
The doorman appeared with that automatic precision which made him valuable in his position, and the Inspector hailed the ready presence with a feeling of profound relief. "Dan, take her back!" he said, feebly. Mary was smiling still as she went to the door. But she could not resist the impulse toward retort. "Oh, yes," she said, suavely; "you were right on the level with me, weren't you, Burke?
Where on earth did you get the idea from?" At the first glimpse of the fifth he staggered. "Great Scott!" he cried with a shudder, "what a ghastly expression you've got into it! It isn't human!" Begglely was growing offended, but the father, who was standing by, came to his defence. "It's nothing to do with Begglely," exclaimed the old gentleman suavely. "It can't be his fault.
No one would understand how carefully and tactfully she had prepared the items of the Oriole to lead suavely up to the news of Aunt Julia's engagement and break it to Noble Dill in a manner that would save his reason.
"Work, my dear work," replied the skipper. "Well, mind you don't lose any of the pieces," said the dear suavely; "you mightn't be able to match that cloth." "I'll look after that," said the skipper, reddening. "You must excuse me talkin' to you now. I'm busy." Miss Cooper looked at him indignantly, and, biting her lip, turned away, and started a desperate flirtation with the mate, to punish him.
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