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At this point Andy stood up and stretched elaborately but in stretching he put his arms behind him, and stretched them down rather than up, so that his hands were never far from his hips. "I'll be turning in," said Andy, and stepping back to the door so that his face would be toward them until the last instant of his exit, he waved good night.
He watched the canoe dart away shorewards, waved his hand in response to Almayer's nod, and walked to the taffrail smoothing out Abdulla's letter, which he had pulled out of his pocket. He read it over carefully, crumpled it up slowly, smiling the while and closing his fingers firmly over the crackling paper as though he had hold there of Abdulla's throat.
"I am grateful to your ladyship for permitting me to see you." "Well, you can see me if that's all you have come for." "No!" he said. "If if I " He paused. "Oh, sit down!" said Lady Linden. "Well, now what is it you want? Have you something to sell? "No, no!" He waved a deprecating hand. "I am come on a matter that interests me greatly. I am a financier, I have offices in London.
Then we watched for the soldiers, and after three days they went by again, by twos and twos as before. It was A1. We waved our flag, and we shouted. We gave them three cheers. Oswald can shout loudest. 'Three cheers for the Queen and the British Army! And then we waved the flag, and bellowed.
"Mike must have lost himself," she thought, "they are so long " But at that moment Paul broke in on her thought. "They are coming," he shouted. "Help! help! help!" and he waved his handkerchief excitedly. Stella bowed her head and prayed, she hardly knew then in what words, but to ask God's help, and to thank Him; she knew He would understand.
On looking round as we approached the river's bank, my worst apprehensions were realised, for there I recognised Captain Radford, though his back was turned towards me as he waved to a boat coming up the river to hasten onward. Our retreat had now become almost a flight, for our pike-men, not daring to kneel to receive the horsemen, were unable as before to drive them back.
He waved a hand in gay greeting, and it would appear that a whim seized him at the sight of her, since he gave some instructions to an aid de camp, who came clanking back to the porch, dismounted, and entered the building. Soon the officer was bowing low to Joan.
"It does not look like it, canon," said Lady Belstone, sorrowfully. She waved her handkerchief towards the panelled walls. "She has removed the family portraits to the lumber-room."
"I'm all right," I said. "What happened?" He grinned at me with relief. "The damned engine stopped. I don't know what was the matter. You had the light off. I couldn't see anything when we got down close." He waved his hand toward the wrecked plane. "It's done for," he added; "but I'm not hurt much. Are you?" "No," I said. "I'm all right."
She took it, and waved good-bye to Loveday, then walked along the side-path that led to the gate. A minute later she was free-wheeling down the hill that led through the village in the direction of Petteridge Court. Loveday, shaking her head, went back to bed. "I'm thankful I'm not a prefect, or I should have felt bound to stop her," she reflected.
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