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Tom Bowles took up the hand in both his own, turned it curiously towards the moonlight, gazed at it, poised it, then with a sound between groan and laugh tossed it away as a thing hostile but trivial, rose and locked the door, came back to his seat and said bluffly, "What do you want with me now?" "I want to ask you a favour." "Favour?" "The greatest which man can ask from man, friendship.
To which Sedgett answered bluffly, "There ye lie, Bob Eccles;" and he was immediately felled by a tremendous blow. Robert strode over him, and taking Dahlia by the elbow, walked three paces on, as to set her in motion. "Off!" he cried to Rhoda, whose eyelids cowered under the blaze of his face.
"Oh, rot, captain!" said Code equally bluffly, and the ceremony was over. But not so with Ma Tanner. She wept and laughed over the preserver of her offspring, and called him so many exalting names that he was glad to turn her over to Nellie and his mother at the Schofield gate.
She owns the next house to mine, the Hamilton house. She'll be here this summer. You'll be neighbors. Come back and speak to her." "No," said Tira, in a gentle obstinacy. "I guess I'll be gittin' along toward " Here she stopped. She did not know what the direction or the end of her journey was to be. "You're not going off the place," said Raven bluffly. "That's flat.
That evening, however, Lois sent for Leverich, who was evidently bothered; though bluffly and rather irritatingly making light of her fears, he seemed to be both a little reluctant and a little contemptuous. "My dear Mrs. Alexander, you can't expect a fellow to be always tied to his wife's apron-strings! He doesn't tell you everything. We like to have a free foot once in a while.
Newman will not allow the flighty intellectualism which takes more hold of modern readers to usurp their place, and for himself he sturdily and bluffly declines to give up his old standing-ground for any one:
For the flare from the furnace showed that this leading spirit amongst the moonshiners had gone softly out. Nehemiah, whose courage was dissipated by some subtle influence of his presence, now made bold to ask, "An' what made him ter set store on Lee-yander's mother's eyes?" His tone was as bluffly sarcastic as he dared. "Shucks ye mus' hev hearn that old tale," said the miller, cavalierly.
"Pity thou art already a knight, Nigel!" bluffly exclaimed Seaton, springing into his saddle by torchlight the following morning, as with a gallant band he was about dashing over the drawbridge, to second the defenders of the barbacan and palisades. "How shall we reward thee, my boy? Thou hast brought the foe to bay.
"No, Burton," he said, bluffly "no; so far as my memory goes I was the only man there." "A bit of a shell knocked my cap off, sir," persisted Mr. Burton, making laudable efforts to keep his temper. "That'll do, my man," said the other, sharply; "not another word. You forget yourself." He turned to the widow and began to chat about "his people" again to divert her attention from Mr.
Presently Ralph summoned his guest to the book-room, where they talked till the kindly hour of tea. But before setting out for his homeward journey, Warburton had another opportunity of exchanging words with Miss Elvan in the garden. "Well, I shall hear what you decide to do," he said, bluffly. "If you go to the Pyrenees but I don't think you will." "No, perhaps not.
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