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Dick wagged a forefinger at him warningly. "Now you've got that swashbuckler notion of a duel again. I'm no cavalier of Spain, but a plain American business man, Don Quixote. As for these jail-birds" his hand swept the room to include the Mexicans "since I'm an unregenerate human I mean to make 'em pay for what they've done. That's all there is to it." Don Manuel bowed. "Very good, Mr. Gordon.
Without touching the envelope, Mr. Tolman went to a door and called his partner, Sharp. Together they explored the caverns of an immense safe. Forth they dragged, as trophy of their search a big envelope sealed with wax. This they forcibly invaded, and wagged their venerable heads together over its contents. Then Tolman became spokesman. "Mr.
Presbrey stared with his deep-set eyes and wagged his tousled head and stared again; then with the quick perception of the practical desert man he said: "I'm sending teamsters in to Flagstaff to-morrow. Wife and I will go along with you. We've light wagons. Three days, maybe or four and we'll be there.... Shefford, I'm going to see you marry Fay Larkin!"
Vanna was three and twenty, no more round but no less blooming in face and figure; still a reedy, golden-haired girl. But Baldassare was fifty-seven, and there was no sign of issue. The neighbours, who had nudged each other at one season, whose heads had wagged as their winks flew about, now accepted the sterile mating as of the order of things.
"Do we belong to your party, sir, or do you belong to ours?" said Father Payne. The dog put his head on one side, and wagged his tail. "It appears I have the pleasure of your acquaintance!" said Father Payne to him. "Very well, you can set us on our way if you like!" The dog gave a short shrill bark, and trotted along with us.
Of course if the true story of Vivie were fully known, she would rise triumphant from such a recital.... Still ... throw plenty of mud and some of it will stick.... And what was her full, true story? Even in the pure passion of the fight for liberty among these young and middle-aged women, the tongue of scandal occasionally wagged in moments of lassitude, discouragement, undeception.
The dog looked at him with watchful eyes. "Where's Jim? Poor Jim!" Asher repeated, and Pilot, with a sorrowful yelp, stretched himself at full length beside the stove. "Jim's sick, then?" Pilot wagged his tail understandingly. "Virgie, Jim needs me. I must go to him." Asher looked at his wife. "If Jim needs you, you'll need me," she replied. "And we'll both need Pilot.
When the wind backed around into the northeast, as it had on this occasion, it foreran a gale of more than usual power and of more than twenty-four hours' duration. "She's doomed!" he whispered, and wagged his head sadly. The might of the sea made him tremble. The thought of what was about to happen to the schooner a fate that naught could avert sickened him.
He rather thought that she was consulting the spirits with the Master, but they might have passed out without his knowing it, "for they had great gifts great gifts," and he wagged his fat head as he showed Adrian into the accustomed room.
But Father Massias interrupted him in a passionate voice, saying that all the nations of the earth would end by coming; whilst Doctor Bonamy, who already detected a slight subsidence of fervour among the pilgrims, wagged his head and expressed the opinion that the faithful ones of the Grotto ought to increase their zeal.
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