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He would hear of no reward, but shook his hands above his head almost as if in menace, and refused volubly and shrilly in unmitigated patois. All seemed right at last. My thoughts began to turn upon dinner and a fireside, and my heart was agreeably softened in my bosom. Alas, and I was on the brink of new and greater miseries! Suddenly, at a single swoop, the night fell.

Sticking in his belt, and fastened to his wrist by a strap two or three feet long, was one of those formidable looking, but harmless English revolvers, that have ten barrels around the edge of the cylinder, and fire a musket-bullet from the center. The wearer of this composite costume, and bearer of this amateur arsenal, stepped nervously about and sputtered volubly in very broken English.

Agatha was reading the Globe, sitting upright and stiff, for she was wearing a new ball-dress. "I think," went on Mrs. Ingham-Baker volubly, "that I have never seen a naval uniform before in a room close at hand, you know. Of course, on board the Croonah the officers wore a sort of uniform, but they had not a sword." Agatha turned over her newspaper impatiently. Mrs.

Several times the latter endeavored to find out something about the old man's past history, but all in vain. The prospector gave him not the slightest information concerning himself, but discoursed volubly about the difference between the ways of the city and the wilderness. "Money ain't everything," he declared, "even though some seem to think it is.

There is the back door, you know," she continued, talking a little excitedly and volubly, "which my father always keeps locked and the key in his pocket, and Count Feri wanted me to give him the duplicate key, so that he could slip in that way unobserved." "Hm!" mused Andor. "What would your father have said to that?" "Father is going to Kecskemét presently by the nine o'clock train."

This had caused Dave to become more volubly instructive. "Of course! Didn't you know that? How thick do you suppose the crust of the earth is, anyway? All we humans are we're plants that have grown out of the cooled crust of a floating volcano; plants that can walk and talk, but plants just the same.

At the first poll opened in that precinct, Daddy Downey cast the first vote, and, as was his custom on all momentous occasions, became volubly reminiscent. "The first vote I ever cast," said Daddy, "was for Andrew Jackson; the father o' some on your peart young chaps wasn't born then; he! he! that was 'way long in '33, wasn't it?

The new-comer was in a rough dress, and had the exterior of a servant; and our skipper says in his testimony, that "Mrs. Talbot spoke to him in the Irish language": very volubly, I have no doubt, and that much was said that was never translated.

Joseph enumerated the beams, joists, ashlars, and the iron-work, and volubly praised the old domain. As for Mihonne, the presence of the marquis had a wonderful effect upon her. If the faithful servant had hitherto never breathed the secret confided to her probity, it was none the less heavy for her to bear.

The big express elevators, running smoothly and swiftly, unloaded every few moments a number of prosperous-looking men who, chatting volubly and affably, made their way immediately through the outer offices towards another and larger inner office on the glass door of which was the legend "Directors Room. Private."