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But now and again his gaze went uneasily back to Courtland, whose eyes were fixed intently upon the preacher, as if the words he spoke were of real importance to him. Tennelly sat back in wonder and tried to listen. It was all about a mysterious companionship with God, stuff that sounded like "rot" to him; uncanny, unreal, mystical, impossible!
'Hang it, Mabel, said Caffyn uneasily, 'you're very hard on me! 'Why were you hard on my darling Dolly? Mabel demanded. 'What had she done to you how could you find pleasure in torturing her? Do you hate children or only Dolly? He made a little gesture of impatient helplessness. 'Oh, if you mean to go on asking questions like that he said, 'of course I don't hate your poor little sister.
"But think, think, Mary Ann," he said, a sudden pang of compunction shooting through his breast. He released her hands. "Do you understand?" "I understand I shall be with you, always." He replied uneasily, "I shall look after you always." "Yes, yes," she breathed. Her bosom heaved. "Always."
The horses were feeding at no great distance off, so that they could keep watch over them. They had hitherto been perfectly quiet, notwithstanding the proximity of the elephants, cropping such tufts of grass as they could find here and there, or the tender shoots of trees. Suddenly they began to move about uneasily.
"Only tell me how!" "By giving me your authority, sir, to protect her from Miss Gwilt." Having fired that shot pointblank at his client, the wise lawyer waited a little to let it take its effect before he said any more. Allan's face clouded, and he shifted uneasily from side to side of his chair. "Your son is hard enough to deal with, Mr. Pedgift," he said, "and you are harder than your son."
As the renegade tightened a knot securing the boy's left leg to the leg of the table, Muskoka's snoring abruptly ceased, and the sleeper moved uneasily. In a flash Iowa was over him, pistol in hand. But the snoring presently resumed, and after watching him sharply for a moment, Iowa returned to the boy. "Now move, remember, an' I shoot," he repeated warningly.
"We came here in hopes that you might solve a little bit of a mystery that's bothering Carl's mother, Dock," continued Tom. It was pretty dark out there, as the night had settled down, and not much light escaped from the windows close by; still Tom thought he saw the other boy move uneasily when he said this. "That's a funny thing for you to say, Tom Chesney," grumbled the other.
"Quite right," agreed Parrawhite, "They don't. What matter is our terms. Now let me suggest no, insist on what they must be. Cash! Do you know why I insist on that? No? Then I'll tell you. Because this young barrister chap, Collingwood, has evidently got some suspicion of something." "I can't see it," said Pratt uneasily. "He was only curious to know what that letter was about."
The young lady, at this, would slightly but uneasily shift her position and look across, very hard, very long, very strangely, at their dim participant. I had asked them at an early stage of the business if it mightn't contribute to their success to have some closer communication with him. The special circumstances would surely be held to have given me a right to introduce them.
And no word filtered through to the dim room... and all the clues withdrew in darkness. Out in the garden Alcibiades and Miss Stone worked among the flowers. It was part of the cure that they should work there among growing things every day close to the earth and his voice sounded happily as they worked. The woman in the closed room turned her head uneasily. She listened a moment.
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