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He scowled blackly, and the last trace of suavity left him. "I shall do nothing of the kind," he said briefly. "I sail to-morrow." Uncle Donald had had a previous experience of being defied by a nephew, but it had not accustomed him to the sensation. He was aware of an unpleasant feeling of impotence. Nothing is harder than to know what to do next when defied. "Eh?" he said. Mr.
As I followed my conductor to the riverside, and he parted the close bushes and boughs to give us exit, the glare of the camp-fires broke all at once upon us. The ship-lights quivered on the water; the figures of men moved to and fro before the fagots; the stars peeped timorously from the vault; the woods and steep banks were blackly shadowed in the river.
"A present from the godly minister of this parish." As he spoke he put out his hand to take the snuffbox. Haward leaned forward, seized the hand, and, bending back the fingers, exposed the palm to the light of the candles upon the table. "The other, if you please," he commanded. For a second no longer a wicked soul looked blackly out of the face to which he had raised his eyes.
June took up the gage, instantly, defiantly. "You've got nothing to do with us, Jake Houck. We're married." The news had reached him. He looked at her blackly. "Married or single, you're mine, girl, an' you're going with me." "My husband will have a word to say about that," June boasted bravely. Houck looked at his rival, and a sinister, mocking smile creased the hard face.
His thin puny figure was shivering from head to foot, and his ardent eyes had never before blazed so blackly in his ravaged, yellow face. "Are you poorly?" asked Pierre. "I don't want to tire you." "Poorly, yes, I am on fire but I want to talk. I can't bear it any longer. One always has to relieve oneself some day or other."
And under that slumberous glimmer the vast horizon showed blackly and phantom-like: the Janiculum in front with the close-packed houses of the Trastevere; the river flowing away yonder on the left towards the dim height of the Palatine; whilst on the right the dome of St. Peter's showed forth, round and domineering in the pale atmosphere.
Lanyard ran forward, rounded the well of the companionway, and pulled up. Now the nature of the thing was revealed. Blackly silhouetted against the square of the doorway two human figures were close-locked and struggling desperately, straining, resisting, thrusting, giving, recovering ... and all with never a sound more than the deadened thump of a shifting foot or the rasp of hard-won breathing.
He must have dropped them there, forgetting them altogether. A find of value and one to save her a deal of trouble: skeleton keys are so exasperatingly slow, particularly when used by inexpert hands. But how to bring herself to make use of these? To use these keys to ransack Maitland's desk seemed an action even more blackly dishonorable than this clandestine visit, this midnight foray.
She folded it to a square and wrote upon it, licking the pencil at every word to make it mark quite blackly: 'All these Indian things are for pretty, nice Miss Peasmarsh's stall. She thought of adding, 'There is nothing for Mrs Biddle; but she saw that this might lead to suspicion, so she wrote hastily: 'From an unknown donna, and crept back among the boards and trestles to join the others.
"Oho," cried Hume, his brows suddenly drawn blackly. "He's getting a woman mixed up in his affairs, is he? That shows how much sense he has. Where is she now?" "Here. She has asked to go out with us tomorrow." Hume made no answer but shoving his hands into his pockets strode after Leland into the living room.
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