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Captain Bonnet turned with rage upon Ben Greenway, but the latter, having spoken his mind and given his advice, had retired. Now came Big Sam. "'Tis an English brig," he said, "most likely from Jamaica, homeward bound; she should be a good prize." Bonnet winced a little at this.
"To convert to other uses the goods of the Church, to convert them to profane uses would, I need not say, be a sacrilege as horrible to Heaven as impossible to so pious a monarch " Ivo Taillebois winced. He had just stolen a manor from the monks of Crowland, and meant to keep it.
She had known last night, when she winced under his sarcastic tongue, and later, when Saint Hubert had left them and his temper had suddenly boiled over, that she was paying for the unaccustomed strain that he was putting on his own feelings. His curses had eaten into her heart, and she had fled from him to stifle the coward instinct that urged her to confess her love and beg his mercy.
He had to roll up the trouser hems. Hats. Chuckling like a boy rummaging a jam closet, he rifled the shelves and pulled down a black derby of an unknown vintage. Large; but a runner of folded paper reduced the size. As he pressed the relic firmly down on his head he winced. A stab over his eyes. He waited doubtfully; but there was no recurrence. Fit as a fiddle.
He did not speak, for he interpreted the look aright, and he was going to be patient, to wait. "Tell me of my father," she said. "You have been kind to him?" He winced a little. "When I left Fort Charles he was very well," he said, "and he asked me to tell you to come some day. He also has sent you a half-dozen silver-fox skins, a sash, and moccasins made by his own hands.
The squawking rattled the receiver and Peterson winced. "Look, commissioner," he broke in, "I can't put a stop to those stories. What? I said I can't put a stop to the stories for one reason. They're true." The only sound that came from the phone was the steady hum of the line. "Are you there, John?" Peterson asked. There was an indistinct mumble from Washington. "Now listen carefully, John.
"I have other plans for him," with a beseeching look at the boy, who avoided her eye. "Wall, in course, jest es ye say, but I do s'pose, ef Reub Olmstead was alive naow, his word would be go." Sara winced.
And in his animal exuberance of delight at his joke and at the whole situation he clapped Roebuck on the shoulder. Roebuck shrank and winced. Moral humiliation he could shed as an armor-plated turret sheds musket-balls. But a physical humiliation, especially with spectators, sank in and sank deep.
Your minister would inquire into the traveller's papers, and ask whence he came, and why." The King turned thoughtful in a moment, and the haughty look died away on his lips. "By Saint Louis, I never thought of that! Leoni, you are wiser than I." Leoni gazed intently at the King, who winced; and Francis ended by putting his hand before his own eyes, as if the peculiar fixed stare annoyed him.
Grey from all censure. The minuteness of the confession was exceedingly painful; and, at its conclusion, she pressed her palms to her cheeks, and moaned, "There, Miss Jane, I have not winced; I have kept back nothing.
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