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The girl turned, as if on a pivot, but spoke no word. She had the most wonderful eyes innocent and pleading; she was a mere child and, although she looked awed now, was evidently a forward young native who deserved a good lesson. Truedale determined to give her one! "If you don't mind," he said, "I'll come in and sit down." This he did while the big, solemn eyes followed him alertly.
Arátoff rose alertly from his chair, thanked her for her proposal, said that he would come without fail ... without fail! and went away, bearing in his soul an impression of a quiet voice, of gentle and sorrowful eyes and burning with the languor of anticipation. Arátoff returned to the Milovídoffs' house that same day, and conversed for three whole hours with Anna Semyónovna.
Instinctively she turned to her mother and laid her hand on the invalid's arm. "They ain't bothering me, Lucy," said the old lady, alertly. "I can't hear their noise, and when I shut my eyes I can't see their motions." "I have something to tell you both," Grace said solemnly. "Last night, I couldn't sleep, and that made me sensitive to noises.
"You're wasting time do better!" he commanded Theodore, and he nudged the gun under his ribs. "That's the key, that crooked one use it, quick!" Theodore dared not disobey. The chain fell away, and Dorothy ran forward, with a sob upon her lips. "Don't hamper me, dear," said Garrison, watching the Robinsons alertly. "Just get your hat, and we'll go."
"That's all that really interests the people. By God, they'll sit up and take notice of the real stuff one of these days. Pretty soon. Tightening up, I tell you. Well, I'm off, Sabre. When are you coming up to the Mess again? Friday? Well, guest night the week after. I'll drop you a line. So long." He was off, carrying his straight back alertly up the street.
"What have I done with my freedom that has been worth while?" "Not much," murmured Celia, under her breath. She moved forward, and stood beside Edith, with an arm round her waist. They looked together at the lake. "It is Lord Plowden, is it not?" asked the American, as the silence grew constrained. Lady Cressage looked up alertly, and then hesitated over her reply. "No," she said at last.
The deferential bend was absent from the neck of the adroit social explorer, his head was alertly poised above the lovely young matron whose beauty, wealth, and foreign personality, to say nothing of the importance of her husband, gave her something of the standing of royalty in the aristocratic little republic of San Francisco Society.
Lady Dauntrey now began to ascend the steps, and the coachman, anxious to get home, alertly dismounted the two pieces of baggage. He brought the small trunk and big dressing-bag up to the door, plumping them down on the marble floor of the terrace so noisily that the dog again convulsed itself with rage.
"Hey, you, Jack!" he cried peevishly. "Get up aloft an' get a peek out. Say, we sure ain't goin' to get held up at a bum flag layout." His contempt was no less for the flag station than Mr. Moss's for a local freight. The man addressed as "Jack" sprang alertly to the roof of the caboose. A moment later his voice echoed through the car below him. "Can't see a thing," he cried.
She looked gravely at him as he moved about investigating, not excitedly, alertly, full of the necessary business of escape. "Looks bad, don't it?" she said gravely. "Like powder, them thar pine-tops." "Oh, we'll get out all right," he answered, easily, and now she felt a comfort in the fact that he was intentionally minimizing danger to give confidence to the supposed weakness of her sex.
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