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Before Captain Plum could recover from the surprise of this whispered announcement the little old man had freed himself and was pattering swiftly through the darkness of the next room. The master of the Typhoon followed close behind him.
"The trouble is," replied Mr. Mayhew, "that your enterprising boy pilot has run us aground hard, tight and fast!" Jacob Farnum glanced swiftly at his young captain. Jack shook his head briefly in dissent. Jacob Farnum, with full confidence in his young man, at once understood that there was more yet to be learned.
You'll get pay dirt that aways, but " "Ah! Needs cap'tal," suggested Joe. "That's jest how we figgered," put in the other quietly. Minky nodded. Many things were traveling swiftly through his mind. "Drove in?" he inquired. "Sure," replied Joe. "Unhooked down the trail a piece." Bill's eyes opened and closed again. Then he shifted noisily in his chair.
I came back filled with a sense of far-off possibilities, and yet more sure than ever that we must neither idle nor despair, but walk swiftly and patiently and help each other along. Not only did I feel my duty to my fellows to be more clear and sure; but my own need of help, my own insignificance, to be more pleasantly insistent.
It was a bright moonlight night, the air balmy, the waters smooth, and, with two stout oarsmen, we glided swiftly along. As Mr. Birney made the last descent and seated himself, doubtful as to our reaching shore, turning to me he said: "The woman tempted me and I did leave the good ship."
Swiftly did they skim over the dark-blue sea, between the beautiful islands with which it was studded; and before the sun was three hours high, Philip recognised the one sought after, and pointed out to the commandant the notched cocoa-nut tree, which served as a guide to the spot where the money had been concealed.
"I'll give you one of mine," offered Bobby, "if I have to get it from the album. Please, Celia." "I'll see," said she. They were moving again slowly beneath the trees. Bobby looked up the street; he looked back. He turned swiftly to her. "Celia," he asked, "may I kiss you?" "Yes," said Celia steadily. She stopped short, looking straight ahead.
Steadily working at the shoe the cobbler proceeded: "The terrible truth was borne to the student then, and he knew that the cock sparrow, on finding his mate and her young ones thus foully murdered, had flown swiftly to the king of all the birds, and told him of the deed.
When she could speak she said: "Do you know, Adam, I think that would be the very best thing you could do." "Why, of course!" said Adam. They drove swiftly and reached Walden before ten o'clock. There they inquired their way to the home of the Trustee, but Kate said nothing about giving up the school. She merely made a few inquiries, asked for the key of the schoolhouse, and about boarding places.
Each time Condamine looked at the pale, wan man who lay in the litter, it was with a horrible fear that he would be dead. They began marching before sunrise, swiftly, to cover as much distance as was possible before the sun grew hot; they marched again towards sunset when a grateful coolness refreshed the weary patient.
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