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"Come in, come in, Abner," he said, bluffly, and he led the way into his office. A square table covered with green baize stood in the centre of the room. A box filled with sawdust sat upon the floor to serve as a cuspidor; three or four splint-bottomed chairs completed the office furniture.
I yeard tell you was in the West Indies conwalescin a'ter an attack o de Tremendous!" He chuckled at his joke. The Frenchman shrugged and smiled. "So I wass, sair, a while back. And now here on express pisness; the Emperor's pisness." "What's up?" asked the Englishman bluffly. "Tired o waitin to wop Nelson? Goin to embark the Armee o England straight off?"
Papa wishes it, and you must behave like a young gentleman to your guest." "Come, Eddy," shouted Sir James from the conservatory. Master Edgar went out sidewise in a very crabby way, and found Sir James waiting. "There, no more shyness," said Sir James bluffly. "Go out and enjoy yourselves till dinner-time."
I am a well-equipped and confident person, walking bluffly through the world, looking through and down upon my neighbours, the incarnation of honesty; but I can find excuses for myself when I desire them, I hug my personal esteem too close, and a thousand to one I am too great a coward at heart to tell myself the naked truth. You, on the other hand, are vacillating and ill at your ease.
"You're not used to work of this sort," I replied, as bluffly and heartily as possible. "There's nothing to worry about." "The commanders of the two ships that disappeared probably felt the same way, sir," said Dival. "I should have thought the Chiefs of the Special Patrol Service would have sent several ships on a mission such as this." "Easy to say," I laughed bitterly.
This Arab certainly showed considerable bravery, and took up a reconnoitring position on a rising ground, looking with a steady and determined eye upon the approaching caravan. He turned to me and said bluffly, "It must be a Touarick ghafalah."
And fears so reasonable were not a little increased when Hilda, after leading the way up the steep ladder to the chamber in which Harold had dreamed his fearful dream, bade them all depart, and leave the wounded man to her care. "Not so," said Vebba, bluffly. "A life like this is not to be left in the hands of woman, or wicca. I shall go back to the great town, and summon the Earl's own leach.
Constant Hite, as he bluffly entered the passageway, his head up, his eyes wide and bright, his vigorous step elastic and light, gave no token of the spiritual war he had waged as he came. Already he felt in great jeopardy. On account of his illicit vocation he could ill abide the scrutiny of the law. With scant proof, he argued, a moonshiner might be suspected of highway robbery and murder.
I will inquire, my dear boy." Next, Alexander sought a private colloquy with his disinherited brother. "Look here, Piers," he began bluffly, "it's a cursed shame! I'm hanged if it isn't! If we weren't so solemn, my boy, I should quote Bumble about the law.
A man pushed his way to the front of the crowd, and for a moment it seemed that Mark Wylder stood living before them. 'Who are you? said Lord Chelford. 'Jim Dutton, Sir; I come by reason of what I read in the "Chronicle" over night, about Mr. Mark Wylder being found. 'Do you know anything of him? asked the coroner. 'Nowt, answered the man bluffly, 'only I writ to Mr.
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