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Now presently I saw the dog stir uneasily and lift his head to sniff the air to windward; thereafter, being on his legs, he growled in his throat, staring ever in the one direction, and uttered a loud, deep bay, whereupon up started Sir Richard, full of question.
Then his eye drooped beneath Campbell's steady gentle gaze, and he looked uneasily round the room, still like a trapped wild beast, as if for a hole to escape by; then up again, but sidelong, at Major Campbell. "I assure you, sir, on the word of a Christian and a soldier, that you are labouring under an entire misapprehension. For God's sake and Mrs.
If any one of you hadn't 'come through' at the same second, the jig would have been up. Who figured it out?" "Here's the slow thinker that did it," said Dick, clapping Bert on the shoulder. "That's the bonehead, sure enough," echoed Tom. "Oh, come off," growled Bert, flushing a little and fidgeting uneasily in his seat. "There was a whole lot of luck about it, anyway.
The two men shuffled awkwardly forward and stood uneasily by the side of Thure and Bud, their eyes shifting restlessly from the face of the alcalde to the faces of the surrounding crowd. For a couple or more minutes the alcalde studied the faces of the two boys and the faces of their two accusers in silence.
She was standing now, and she answered through stiff lips, "You mustn't hope for that. You know I told you long ago the kind of woman I am." "And you can't change yourself for my sake?" She moved uneasily. "I would, so gladly, if I could," she said, and he shook his head as though he did not believe her. "But I will not have you and John trying to arrange my life. I choose to be alone.
"Then, thinks I, 'No, that won't pay me for my buildin' and my bus'ness hurt and all that. So I waited for Baxter to git well, meanin' to make him pay or go to the jug. But he stayed sick a-purpose, I b'lieve, the mean, white-headed, psalm-singin' " Captain Eri moved uneasily and broke in, "You got your insurance money, didn't you?" "Yes, I did, but whose fault is that?
Has it occurred to you she would even see you married to a girl she detests, to keep you at home?" Graham's face hardened. "So;" he said, heavily, "Marion wants me for the money she thinks I'm going to have, and mother wants me to marry to keep me safe! By God, it's a dirty world, isn't it?" Suddenly he was gone, and Clayton, following uneasily to the doorway, heard a slam below.
I live over in the next village. I was in town and heard that you folks wanted a guide. I know more about the White Mountains than any other man in the State of New Hampshire. I can show you more, and take better care of your party, than anybody else you could find." "Do you know Janus Grubb?" "Ye yes," Collins twisted uneasily, "I know him." "He is to be our guide.
"Any fool would see it, you'd better say," said Doctor Wharton. "No matter how she took it, you fellows would wag your heads and say 'Guilty." Hanlon looked uneasily at Hilda, fearing she would draw encouragement from Wharton's words. But Hilda was still moaning. "Lift her up and set her in a chair," he said to Casey.
When they had finished, Christophe was on the point of going when Braun suddenly clasped his arm with both hands and said: "Christophe!" Christophe looked at him uneasily. Christophe stood transfixed: for a moment or two he could find nothing to say. Braun stood looking at him timidly: very quickly he begged his pardon: "You see a good deal of her, she trusts you...."
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