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"My name's on the back." He paused and glanced at Thorn. "Still, this is a matter I'd sooner talk about with you alone." Thorn got up, making an effort for self-control. "Since Mr. Askew has arrived I needn't stay." He bowed to Mrs. Osborn. "It looks as if I had not understood things. You won't need my help."
The turmoil of the surf had got louder and rang through the dark like the roar of a heavy train. Presently Mayne ordered a sounding to be taken and looked at Kit when the leadsman called the depth. "A foot less than we reckoned, and there won't be much rise. I don't like it, Mr. Askew, and if my employer was not your uncle, I'd heave the old boat round." Kit nodded sympathetically.
Was it a beast or was it a man?" "If you don't sleep to-night," he said, "you'll be off your head to-morrow." I stood up in front of him. "What was that thing that came after me?" I asked. He looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew. His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went dull. "From your account," said he, "I'm thinking it was a bogle."
A cunning finger- smith, a moulder of decorative patterns, a master at making new figures, all this is granted, but speak of Chopin as path-breaker in the harmonic forest that true "forest of numbers" as the forger of a melodic metal, the sweetest, purest in temper, and lo! you are regarded as one mentally askew.
But the tank was bone dry, and the tail was knocked askew, so Johnny had to give up thinking about it. When he slept, the airplane filled his dreams so that he talked in his sleep and wakened the brother of Tomaso, who sat up in his blankets to listen. "That plan, she's work fine, I bet!" grinned the brother of Tomaso when Johnny had droned off into mumbling and then silence.
She came in, sat down at the table, put her head into her arms and burst into tears. She must have looked a very pathetic figure with her little fur hat askew, her hair tumbled like a child whose doll is suddenly broken. Vera was at her side in a moment. She put her arms around her. "Nina, dear, what is it?... Has somebody hurt you? Has something happened? Is anybody killed?" "No!" Nina sobbed.
The georgette dinner dress was discarded for the tweed suit but the suit was so put on that all semblance of natty cut was lost. The skirt was on slightly askew and pulled up in front and down in the back. The belt to the Norfolk jacket was drawn too tight and the effect was blousy from the rear and what Alice called "a poor white folk's tuck" in the fore.
That something had no business in the dining-room, for it belonged to the kitchen in fact it was a large wooden mallet of the kind used by French cooks to beat meat tender. Just now the club end of the mallet was sticking out of the drawer of the walnut-wood buffet. The drawer had evidently been pulled out askew, and had stuck as is the way with drawers forming part of ill-made furniture.
Señor Askew is old and not strong. One must pay for leading a strenuous life and he has had malaria for some years. He ought to remain in the North. It is your business to persuade him, but do not disturb him yet." "I will try," Kit said doubtfully. "You think it needful?" "If he does not go soon, he will not go at all," the doctor replied in a meaning tone.
She knew, quite positively, that she had locked it before going out and yet it was now standing wide open; the lid, thrown back, hung askew by one hinge; the other was broken. A dread, a hideous suspicion, froze her blood; the lamp trembled in her hand as she leaned over the chest which ought to have contained every thing she possessed.
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