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The utmost Ellen was permitted to see was the napkin covering some stray cake or pie that by chance had to pass through the kitchen where she was. As she could neither help nor look on, the day passed rather wearily. She tried studying; a very little, she found, was enough to satisfy both mind and body in their present state.
"Bill, old partner," he said wearily, "if anything can be found they can find it. I think you and I had better go back and try to think some way out of this try to see some opening. It looks pretty black." The big fellow took four or five of his long, swinging steps, and threw an arm over the younger man's shoulder.
But there seemed no hope of keeping them through the night, so we set forward again, and plunged into the gloomy forest. An hour later, as I was plodding wearily along beside the cart, thinking over the events of this tragic day, I was startled by a white face peering from beneath the upraised curtain out into the darkness.
She was growing drowsy and threw herself back on the floor, with one fair white arm thrown over her head. She had advanced considerably to the left of the room, though the impenetrable darkness did not allow her to know it. Her breast heaved in great irregular sighs, and her long lashes drooped wearily over her tired eyes.
The only mistake a crook ever makes is when he goes outside of his legitimate business and lets some other consideration than the piling up of money influence him." "How do you mean?" asked Pinto wearily. He hated the colonel when he was in this communicative mood of his.
Whatever I did for you, my dear, I'd do a thousand times over again!" "You must have your reward, such as it is. God knows you have earned it." "Don't talk about rights or rewards," said he. "As I've said repeatedly this afternoon, I've forfeited even your thanks." "And I've said I forgive you if there's anything to forgive," she smiled, just a little wearily. "So that is wiped out.
"Lieutenant Harris," he said in tones whose significance could not be misunderstood, "I was right. You have wasted your time and mine." Then he sighed wearily and made a last gesture to Forbes. "The guard" he said. It was all over.
Yet in spite of this spirituelle nature, she was physically stronger and more robust than any other woman I ever saw. She was gay and active; she was never tired, never ailing, and she enjoyed life with a keen zest such as is unknown to the tired multitudes who toil on hopelessly and wearily, wondering, as they work, why they were born.
In a little chamber, cut in the rock above the opening into which the ladder of bolts led us, Young was waiting for us; and from this chamber a spiral stair-way ascended that was dimly lighted by crevices cut from it out to the face of the cliff. With Young leading us, up this we went; at first rapidly, but, later, slowly and wearily, for it seemed as though the stair would never end.
"He's drunk probably," commented Greathouse savagely. "Tut! Tut!" cried Rubery, "let us have no croaking." But at two o'clock, the navigator had not shown his face. They could not sail without a captain. Wearily they went below and left a sentinel on watch. He was a young man who had eaten heavily and drunk to even more excess. For a time he paced the deck conscientiously.
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