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It occurred to him that the nighthawk must have been restless and had elected to wash at the creek bank instead of indulging in sleep, thus accounting for the bobbing hat he had seen, for assuredly it did not belong to the cook, as he had surmised. The face behind the gun was the face of Waddles. "I'm about to touch off a pound of shot if you go acting up," Waddles said.
Exclamations were uttered in every variety of tone; and although both Jacobi and Henrik protested that they could not discover any way of accounting for this supernatural phenomenon, still they did not escape the suspicion of being instrumental in the witchcraft, spite of all the means they used to establish their innocence.
Curiosity drew him toward the drawer again. There was an old commission in the musketeers, signed by Louis XIII; letters from Madame de Longueville; an unsigned lettre-de-cachet; an accounting of the revenues of the various chateaus; and a long envelope, yellow with age. He picked it out of the drawer and blew away the dust.
Dorothy treated me ill enough that spring. Since the minx had tasted power at Carvel Hall, there was no accounting for her. On returning to town Dr. Courtenay had begged her mother to allow her at the assemblies, a request which Mrs. Manners most sensibly refused. Mr.
'But, Captain, bullying won't do; you'll hardly get out of this country without accounting for a little accident that happened at Warroch Point a few years ago. Hatteraick's looks grew black as midnight. 'For my part, continued Glossin, 'I have no particular wish to be hard upon an old acquaintance; but I must do my duty.
The time when he must turn over her money is very near, and, suppose he has spent the money, speculated with it, and lost it, or that he still has it and wants to keep it? In three months she will be of age, and he must make an accounting. The arsenic does not work fast enough. So what does he do?
To this request there appeared to be no well-founded objection, under the reservation as to the constitutional principle, and accordingly an order was given to the accounting officers of the Treasury to proceed in auditing the claim with that reservation.
Seeing the boy seems to have roused him to old feelings of home.... He writes oddly, but in a strain that is not wholly base." "I can't make out why he wants to write to you at all, Padre; he always hated you, blamed you so ... for the marriage and all that." "There is not much accounting for the vagaries of a man like that.
He had managed our affairs since my father's death. I could never get an accounting from him. To-day the doctor told me that Alice must go away at once for an operation. And to-day Mr. Crouch made this appointment for to-night." "Didn't you know his reputation? Weren't you afraid?" "I didn't think of fear. When I told him how matters stood, he offered me money, but but Oh, I can't tell you!"
A very fine tale indeed! And so my brother took a fancy to this young man after only a few days acquaintance! but that was so like him! In his youth he was always taking these likes and dislikes, when no other person saw any reason for them at all; nay, indeed, I have often thought the people he disapproved were much more agreeable than those he admired; but there is no accounting for tastes.
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