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A tremendous crash and rumbling noise followed, and then all was quiet. The concussion put out the lamp, but as soon as it was lighted again Guy ran up to see the result of his attempt. No trace of the passageway existed. In its place was a grim wall of earth. The full significance of what he had done now flashed into Guy's mind and he gazed blankly into the faces of his comrades.
"And I'm sure the camels could make the trip in a couple of days," she continued, sounding assured now, and pleasantly argumentative. "I used to read about their speed in my First Reader.... That is, if you don't mind the trouble," she added apologetically, "and being with me that day more?" Billy choked. She looked entirely unconscious, and his dumfounded gaze fell blankly away.
Wangelbecker confidentially, leaning forward and lowering his voice a little. Anna-Felicitas gazed at him blankly. Some more people were coming in at the door, and behind them she could see on the path yet more, and Anna-Rose was in the pantry fetching the tea for the experts. "Would you mind telling me what I am to bring you?" she asked. "Because I'm afraid " Mr.
"You had luck," said Talbot non-committally, "and you ran a strong risk of coming back here without a cent, didn't you? I want to ask you one question, Johnny. If you had lost, would you have been willing to have taken the consequences?" "What do you mean?" asked Johnny blankly. "Would you have been willing to have dropped out of this partnership?" Johnny stared.
From face to face he gazed in mute inquiry, and then, striking his chest feebly with his fist, uttered two words. We looked at each other blankly, and he repeated them eagerly, and again touched his chest. "It's his name," said the cook, and we all repeated them.
Joan paused and considered this as if it were a startlingly new idea. "Love him? why, no. I'm sure I don't. But, Pat, what is it that seems like love, but isn't you're sure it isn't but it hurts and almost kills you?" The two young faces confronted each other blankly. "I don't know," Patricia said. "Nor I, Pat. But we've got to know.
He had allowed his nerves to get the better of him, and now he desired to make amends. Hence a cheerfulness which he did not usually exhibit so early in the morning. Sally was staring at him blankly. She had completely forgotten that he had said that he would come and take her for a drive this morning. She searched in her mind for words, and found none. And, as Mr.
"If Captain Putnam hears of this, Baxter will be sent away, or at least punished." "Perhaps, Sam; but I shan't tell him." "No; we're no tale-bearers. Let us go up to the side windows of the tavern and see if we can see them." This was agreed to, and the two boys hurried up to first one window and then another. They are not in the saloon part, that's certain," said Tom blankly.
He saw the scared expression of the punkah boy; the Chinamen tellers sitting on their heels with unmovable faces turned up blankly towards him while their arrested hands hovered over the little piles of bright guilders ranged on the floor; Mr. Vinck's shoulder-blades with the fleshy rims of two red ears above.
He stopped in a sudden bewilderment, looking blankly, questioningly at the faces about him. Then out of the first chaos came the sense of having awakened from some long, quiet sleep of having suddenly opened his eyes upon a world from which the morning mists had lifted, to see himself and the woman who stood always at the end of that upward path face to face for the first time.
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