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One night the prisoner ventured to take the initiative; he stuck out his hand to signal the guard. Wagg, it was manifest, was not so much a master of facial control that he could suppress all signs of satisfaction. He looked pleased like a man who had employed tactics that were working according to plans and hopes. "Sick?" "Yes heart and soul! Body, too!
The pistol was uncocked; the burthen was resumed, and the party slowly toiled up the bank. Sam watched them as they went; the light sending back fitful gleams through the dripping bushes, and it was not till they were fairly out of sight that he ventured to draw breath freely.
She decided against the Hanna Larchmont Hospital, its very foyer awakening in her such a sickening sense of public institution that she ventured no farther, but engaged a tiny room in a private sanitarium in Nineteenth Street, at twenty dollars a week, and the privilege of boarding on two or three weeks after her discharge.
In the first place there was the wonder of the great blue sea a sea so vast that the Italian boy, who had never before ventured beyond the canals of the Adriatic, was bewildered when day after day the giant ship plowed onward and still, despite her speed, failed to reach the land.
"Happiness makes every land an Italy, eh?" said Artois. "I expect that's profoundly true." "Don't you don't you know?" ventured Delarey. "I! My friend, one cannot be proficient in every branch of knowledge." He spoke the words without bitterness, with a calm that had in it something more sad than bitterness.
Next morning they were given shelter by a farmer's wife whose sympathies were with France. She provided them with disguises, but they ventured to move only at night. At the end of four nights' travel they came upon French soldiers advancing into Alsace, and made themselves known, but not until they had been fired on as spies.
The natural obstacles were considerable, however, and as they picked their way along, the brothers for the first time began to gain a fairly accurate idea of what was meant by the term, a virgin forest. To all seeming, the human foot had never ventured here, nor were any marks or spoor of wild beasts perceptible on either side.
No attempt was made to put out the flames; indeed, so rapidly did they extend among the combustible materials of which they were constructed, that the whole of the huts standing within reach of each other were quickly burned to the ground. We now ventured to accompany Oria and her mother out of the fort.
"Well," hesitated the Captain, "I don't know what nation to suspect. It seems that no one does. I think that is the problem you were brought here to solve." "It seems to me that the wise men at Washington ought to be able to secure information on the subject," Ned ventured.
Not knowing how much start he would have, the cook, despite his hunger and fatigue, pushed on with all the speed of which he was capable. After an hour's journey he ventured to ask the direction of an embryo ploughman, and wheedled out of him a small, a very small, portion of his breakfast.
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