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It was a most serious company: the Neapolitans, with their cloudy brows, rapt in their music; and the Yankee children, with their impassive faces, warily guarding against the faintest expression of enjoyment; and when at last the minstrels played a brisk measure, and the music began to work in the blood of the boys, and one of them shuffling his reluctant feet upon the gravel, broke into a sudden and resistless dance, the spectacle became too sad for contemplation.
This was disappointing, for it was evident that they had turned into one of the shallow mouths, and navigation might come to an end a few miles up. Captain Drake dropped anchor well away from the shore and its pestilential night mists, and made all snug against the morning. He recognized that the navigation of the river was going to be no easy matter, and he decided to go warily.
When Stoddard turned out to be a regular worker, punctual, amenable to discipline, he congratulated himself, and praised his assistant, but warily. Now came the first delinquency, and in his heart he cared more that Stoddard should absent himself without notice than for the pile of letters lying untouched. "Dave," he finally said to the yellow office boy, "I wish you'd 'phone to Mr.
'Well, why can't you have it done up, and sit here? he said warily. Paula shook her head. 'You are not at enmity with Anglicanism, I am sure? 'I want not to be. I want to be what 'What the De Stancys were, and are, he said insidiously; and her silenced bearing told him that he had hit the nail.
Martian lead or the terrestrial isotope?" asked Evans, tasting warily a peculiar dish before him. "Say, this is energy food. I thought we didn't get any more till Saturday." The change from the energy-less, flavored pastes that made up the principal bulk of a space-pilot's diet, to prevent over-eating, when no energy was used in walking in the weightless ship, was indeed a welcome change.
It was this silence and this attitude which proclaimed itself that angered Mr. Flint, yet made him warily conceal his anger and change his attack. "It is some years since we met, Mr. Vane," he remarked presently. Austen's face relaxed into something of a smile. "Four, I think," he answered. "You hadn't long been back from that Western experience.
"Yet, after such a prelude, if any but a friend of your tried loyalty asked it, I might expect to find Spanish liquorice in the cup." "That is out of the question, in my case," he answered with a slight assumption of offence, which he immediately dropped. "And you say it is a small thing; it is the more easily granted, M. de Rosny." "But the King goes and comes at his pleasure," I replied warily.
He smiled, then his features became utterly blank, as one by one the eyes of the other Indians flashed on his for a moment, then shifted warily elsewhere. I made a quick gesture, turned, and started, heading the file out into the darkness.
Then, as the silence became suddenly oppressive, she ventured warily in the effort to dispel it: "I hope you are not disturbed about anything?" "Disturbed?" He turned to her with a start. "No, I was only wondering if you knew how much your friendship would mean to me."
Finally, the golden queen took the silvered queen; but presently after she herself was taken by the silvered archer. Then the silvered king had only three nymphs, an archer, and a warden left, and the golden only three nymphs and the right knight, which made them fight more slowly and warily than before.
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