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For the darkness was now tempered by moonlight and she could see that they were no longer in the populous districts of the town, but were speeding along past woodlands and open fields in the very depths of the country. "Good gracious! Johnston must have lost his senses!" she exclaimed agitatedly. "Look where we are, Captain Hawksley! out in the country with only a farmhouse or two in sight.
The spectacle of the military police on point duty agitatedly waving little flags like a semaphore in the middle of narrow and congested street corners was at first a source of great entertainment to the inhabitants, who appeared to think it was a kind of performance thoughtfully provided by the Staff for their delectation. Their applause was quite disconcerting.
His eyes moved slowly from seat to seat pausing momentarily on the pale, absorbed face of the woman in black. But scarcely had his glance rested upon her than the heavily built man who sat beside her, rose agitatedly and stepped forward to the sanctuary.
He must have suffered, yes, and she she had suffered; but she had her children, and he had no one! The dinner was over. They had all risen from the table, and were going into the parlor, and Uncle John had his namesake Johnny on one side of him and little Archie on the other. They had taken possession of him from the first, when Elsie, hanging back, clung to her mother and whispered agitatedly,
It's too late I can't go back on my word." She stood twisting her fingers agitatedly. Suddenly she went to where he stood; she tried to put her arms round his neck, but he resisted fiercely. He held her wrists; he kept his head flung back beyond her reach. "It's too late, Cynthia do you hear! I've given my word; I'm not going back on it now.
"My man," he said, "I walked the streets with the highest in the land before your mother bore you in Bridewell, or whatever jail it was." "Oh, no offence," the turnkey muttered. I said, "Did you find Cowper, sir? Will he give evidence?" "Jackie," he said agitatedly, as if he were afraid of offending me, "he said you had filched his wife's rings."
"An envoy from France has arrived; he had a long interview with the governor, and I fear he has started with armed men for Devil's Cliff, as Monsieur Morris believes," said the priest, walking up and down agitatedly. "Monsieur Morris does not know, cannot know more. But I I I tremble to think of the consequences of this visit. Doubtless the mystery has been unveiled. And how, how?
"Close a call as I ever had was in a blizzard like that," the old man at Luck's left whispered agitatedly to Luck behind his palm, when the lights snapped on while the operator was changing for the last reel. There was Andy, haunted and haggard, at home again with his father.
I knew it then, but I wouldn't tell you because I wanted to keep you for myself. He your friend David had not come then. You must take the risk for her sake. And before it is too late." "But I can't inflict myself on her. It would be no kindness to her or to me." He left her and began to pace back and forth agitatedly, in the pompous, hopping little strut. "You are wrong you must be wrong.
Tony did not know what to make of it at all, and he felt utterly helpless. Agitatedly he patted her on the back and stroked her hair. "Myra, for heaven's sake don't cry," he said, in what was intended to be a soothing tone. "You make me feel so bally awful. I've never seen you crying before, and I can't make out what is the matter. What on earth has upset you, darling? You're quite hysterical.
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