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While he was setting the gun aside he felt Gloria's eyes upon him. During the night and now, during this inventory, he had been granted both ample time and cause for his decision. He addressed her with prompt frankness. "Inside fifteen minutes we've got to be on our way out. As we go we'll look for the horse. But, find it or not, we're going." She lay looking up at him thoughtfully.
He returned the wood-lice to his pocket except one, which he held between a finger and thumb laid thoughtfully against his lip. "Want wopses now. You get 'em for me." William roused himself from his bewilderment. "How how do you catch 'em?" he said. "Wings," replied Thomas. "Get hold of their wings an' they don't sting. Sometimes they do, though," he added casually. "Then your hands go big."
"Who said it was a surprise?" asked Betty tantalizingly, but the next minute her face sobered and she regarded the girls gravely. "Girls," she said, "I think I see a chance for the most glorious outing we have had yet. How would you like " she paused and regarded the expectant girls thoughtfully. "How would you like a summer in the saddle?"
We only ask that you come and judge for yourselves." "What you ask is certainly reasonable," said Mildred thoughtfully, and with an inquiring glance at her mother. "I agree with you, Millie," her mother added with gentle emphasis, for she had been observing their visitor closely; "and I think we both appreciate Miss Wetheridge's motive in calling upon us, and can respond in like spirit."
Wright said, thoughtfully. "Why?" "Because I think that business will call me to the city in a day or two, and I will accompany the expedition, and see that the women have all that they desire on the route. I don't like to trust them with my men, for I don't know how the latter would act when no longer under my supervision." "The very best course you can take," cried Mr.
The feeling of vivid excitement was still carrying her along, and she laughed as she answered them. Allan looked at her critically. "H'm!" he said thoughtfully. "I seem to have a feeling that he won't bring you such an amazing distance, at that short time as I have known you. Did you say popovers this morning, Phyllis?" "Popovers," nodded Phyllis, "and some of Lily-Anna's fresh marmalade."
It is my poor brother who is the Deus ex machina, who, from his unknown grave, as I fear, pulls the strings of this infernal puppet-show." He paused and for a space gazed thoughtfully into the grate as if he had forgotten my presence. At length he looked up and resumed: "It is a curious story, Doctor a very curious story. Part of it you know the middle part.
His lordship's gaze being a little slow in returning from the middle distance for it was not a matter to be decided carelessly and without thought, this problem of carrying the length of Shaftesbury Avenue with a single brassy shot he repeated the gossip from the home. Lord Dawlish regarded him thoughtfully. 'It could be done, he said, 'but you'd want a bit of pull on it.
"What do you mean?" asked Dr. van Heerden. "I merely repeat the words of the dead man," answered Beale, "heart failure!" He picked up from the table the leather case which the doctor had taken from his pocket. There were four little phials and one of these was uncorked. "Digitalis!" he read. "That shouldn't kill him, doctor." He looked at van Heerden thoughtfully, then picked up the phial again.
"Bless me, Kitty," said my father, in great admiration, "you ask just the question which it is most difficult to answer. And why, Kitty, I just ask you, why?" My mother shook her head thoughtfully, and turned the frock to the other side of the light.
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