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The Englishwoman was called Mrs. Archbold, and on her other hand stood a tall, slim lady with long gray-green eyes, prematurely gray hair which had plainly been red, and an odd little twist to her smile. This was Mrs. Hexter, wife of the owner of the big woollen mills across the creek, and only bidden in to assist the Uplift work because the position of her husband gave her much power.

The canoe seemed to come along pretty well. How that river does twist! And it's very narrow, I should think the steamboat would stick." The Captain opened his mouth helplessly, once or twice. "Gosh sakes!" he said, "you warn't in no river. You was in Pingree's Crik, or you wouldn't have got down here." "I thought it seemed pretty narrow.

I said the love of the Maxwell Stuarts, Maxwell Scotts, Wolfe Murrays and Sir Thomas now Lord Carmichael was quite enough for me and that if she liked she could twist Sir Graham Montgomery round her little finger; as a matter of fact, neither Sir Graham nor his sons disliked us.

It shocked Viola shocked her greatly, for she had, naturally, expected kindly sympathy and agreement from her friend. Dr. Baird, who had involuntarily begun to twist his small mustache at the entrance of Miss Webb, looked at her in admiration of her good looks and because she upheld a theory to which he felt himself committed a theory that Mr. Carwell was a plain out-and-out suicide. Dr.

The front end of the box landed squarely against the stone post. The shock was a stunning one. It tore the wagon shafts, harness and all, clear off the horse. With a circling twist the vehicle reversed like lightning. The box struck the wooden rail. This snapped like a pipe stem.

Twist saw these things distinctly and at once. He also saw how the young man's face fell on his, Mr. Twist's, appearance with the tray, and he also saw with some surprise how before he had reached him it suddenly cleared again. And the young man got up too, just as Mr.

Looking up, he saw that they had struck the bank and come near capsizing. And he saw more than that; scarcely two yards away a pair of glowing eyes shone out at him. "For the sake of God, make haste," cried Spurling; "the brute's about to pounce." With a twist of the paddle he swung the canoe's head round, and with the help of Spurling drove her out.

"I can't see well enough in the morning to tell the time of day," replied Larry, with a wry twist of his mouth. "Well, it is a quarter after five." The boys groaned. "Fine time to get a party of gentlemen out of bed," growled Sam. "What are we going to do about it, anyway?" "You fellows are going to take a cold plunge, then get into your clothes. We will have breakfast.

Then think what I felt, to see these false priests, here in the tribunal wherein Joan had fought a fourth lone fight in three years, deliberately twist that matter entirely around and try to make out that Joan haled the Paladin into court and pretended that he had promised to marry her, and was bent on making him do it.

"Who's gittin' narvous?" exclaimed George Forsyth, at whom Bremner had looked when he made the last remark. "Sure ye misjudge him," cried O'Connor. "It's only another twist o' the toothick. But it's all very well in you to spake lightly o' gales in that fashion. Wasn't the Eddy-stone Lighthouse cleared away wan stormy night, with the engineer and all the men, an' was niver more heard on?"