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After a deal of vain abuse of Gilfoyle for abducting their child and thwarting her golden opportunity, Adna asked at last, "What does Mr. Dyckman think of all this?" "You don't suppose I've told him I was married, do you?" Kedzie stormed. "Do I look as loony as all that?" "Oh!" said Adna. "Why, he doesn't even know my name is Thropp, to say nothing of Thropp-hyphen-Gilfoyle." "Oh!" said Adna.
"Assuredly," said Nick, "to the extent of abducting Monsieur le cure. As for you, Davy," he added, between his teeth, "I mean to get even with you." It was well for us that the Colonel and Monsieur Gratiot took the escapade with such good nature.
But I certainly do not waste my substance on opera-dancers, nor am I given to abducting Moorish princesses, or clambering up pyramids.
By squeezing a captured soul in their hands they discovered the place where people had been secretly buried. Nowhere perhaps is the art of abducting human souls more carefully cultivated or carried to higher perfection than in the Malay Peninsula. Here the methods by which the wizard works his will are various, and so too are his motives.
It was certain that if Joel had happened to ride near instead of far, Slone could not have helped but kill him. As it was, he desisted because he realized that Joel would acquaint Bostil with the abducting of Lucy, and it might be that this would be well.
She really did not quite know. 'If your object in thus abducting me was to talk, hadn't you better do so? she asked. 'I hope you will endeavour to be not only amusing but instructive. 'I wanted to point out to you that it is not civil pointedly to ignore a man who is sitting next to you at luncheon. 'Did I do that? I'm so sorry.
He had an almost guilty feeling of having broken an unwritten law, of abducting a princess, and the old Duncan house had seemed to frown protestingly that such an act should have taken place under its windows. If Victoria had been to him an ordinary mortal in expensive furs instead of a princess, he would have snapped his fingers at the pomp and circumstance.
"I do not accuse you of abducting her; I have not come here to reproach you nor to utter threats, I have only come to ask you to shew yourself my friend. Help me to get my daughter again this very day; you will give me my life. I am certain that you know all. You were her only confidant and her only friend; you passed hours with her every day; she must have told you of her secret.
Now, you persist in averring that the late king was the chief conspirator in abducting her serene highness, aided by Arnsberg, whose successor I have the honor to be. I have never yet seen any proofs. You have never yet produced them. Show me something which absolutely convicts them, and I'll surrender." "On your honor?" "My word." The grand duke struck the bell on the chancellor's desk.
A drug, George, capable of making a human being infinitely small!" I did not answer when momentarily Alan paused. So strange a thing. My mind whirled with it; struggled to encompass it. And like the meaningless individual pieces of a puzzle, dropping so easily into place when the key piece is fitted, I saw Polter stealing that fragment of gold; abducting Dr.
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