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'I've come here to make you take back the money, Margaret said. 'I won't keep it another day. 'Have you come all the way from Versailles again to say that? asked Logotheti, laughing. Again, as she sat on the arm of the big chair, she tapped the dark blue tiles with the toe of her shoe.
Yet in his slippers he grows human. "I like the country, too," he interposed, "and no one ever said that I am sentimental." He tapped his head. "I'm as hard as nails up here." Quill cracked his knuckles in a disagreeable habit he has, and continued: "I have a shack on the West Shore, and I go there week-ends.
Do as she did; only we'll let you have your own ideas of saddling the horse." He turned his head toward Pete and made a very slight gesture, and Pete grinned. "All ready? Start the action!" After that he did not help her by a single suggestion. He tapped Pete upon the shoulder, and stood with his feet far apart and his hands on his hips, watching her very intently.
Martin Gunther tapped twice on the table with his gavel. "The basic reason for our meeting is to report progress and to reconsider the possibilities of new elements having entered into the situation which might cause us to re-examine our policies. I think we already have a fairly good idea of each other's development." His voice went wry.
To-morrow is another day, as your aunt says," finished Tavia, kissing Dorothy fondly and leaving her chum to think over all the matters that now confused her tired, weary brain. It was Roger who first tapped at his sister's door the next morning. "Doro," he called, "when are we going out to see that ghost?" "Ghost?" repeated the girl, rubbing her eyes and trying to collect her scattered thoughts.
"One day a dispatch will come in we have tapped a mountain of copper, nineteen miles square, later on we have just opened up another field of coal or we have struck another iron mountain this morning when Eureka a telegram electrifies the speculators in Wall Streets and gold drops below par at ten this morning we struck a pick into a mountain of solid gold.
"No, not yet," said the young man at her side. "Besides, even if it were, this is my dance, remember. You said so yourself." "You are rude to-night, Maurice and LANGWEILIG." She averted her face, and tapped her foot. But the content that lapped her made it impossible for her to take anything earnestly amiss, and even that others should show displeasure jarred on her like a false note.
Villon was head-sick and heart-sick with the effort to put so much of the past together. He felt as if in some strange titanic way he had ruined a world and was suddenly called upon by Providence to piece the fragments together and make all whole again. He tapped his forehead wonderingly. "Last night I was a red-handed outlaw, sleeping on the straw of a dungeon.
"With four wives your opinion carries weight, Dewani," and Nana Sahib tapped the fat knee of the Minister with his riding whip. Baptiste turned to the Prince. "There will be trouble over these Pindaris; your friends, the English eh, Nana Sahib "
She tapped again, louder, and then came the faint sound of a quick step on the carpet, and then a slight scraping noise, as when a door is closed over a carpet it will scarcely pass. "That's the window into the garden," said Miss Creswick. "Why is he going out? Uncle! Uncle Jacob!" But now the silence was wholly unbroken. Hewitt snatched quickly at the door-handle. "Locked!" he said.
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