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Steve groped and found the hand groping for his. He nodded his head, bruskly, to hide his eyes. But his voice was not brusk. "I almost shot you, Garry," he said, and there was a husky echo of horror in the words. "In another minute I'd have killed you. Right now I don't know just what kept me from firing."
I know what you are, as well as you do yourself." The words were brusk, and the inflection of them not much gentler, but they fell on Rose's heart like rain; like an unexpected warm little shower out of a brazen sky. She caught her breath, and, to her consternation, felt her eyes flushing up with tears. She hadn't realized the tension she had been under, until it was relaxed.
"You are hungry?" said John Steele. "A little, sir." "A modest answer in view of the actual truth, I suspect," observed the other. But although his words were brusk, he felt in his pocket; a sovereign it was all he had left about him.
"We shall settle those points at Delgratz," declared the brusk Stampoff. "You will bring the money, half in gold, to the station?" he added to Beliani. "Yes. Gold is best. For the remainder, you will want Russian notes." Something seemed to be troubling the august mind of Prince Michael. "By the way, my dear Beliani," he began; but the Greek awoke into a very panic of action.
The visitor's tone changed. "If you can find Tom, give him this note; you'll be well paid " "I ain't askin' for that; you got me off easy once and gave me a lift, arter I was let out " "Well, well!" Steele made a brusk gesture. "We all need a helping hand sometimes," he said turning away. And that was as near as he had come to attainment of his desires.
Sir Marcus, however, who had a very brusk manner with his inferiors, having paid the cabman, curtly dismissed him, and the man, who admits having bargained for a double fare for the journey, because it was such an out-of-the-way spot, drove away vaguely curious, but not so curious as another might have been, since London cabmen are used to strange jobs."
He did not know what direction it came from, but, fantastically enough, it seemed to be a comment on his thought, a brusk, decisive exclamation flung at him from out of the silent evening. "Sentimentalist! Take that, and get out of your mush of feeling!"
Poole for a few moments and learned his opinion of the case. It was not favorable. "Not much chance for the child," said the brusk doctor. "Never has been much chance for it. One of those children that have no right to be born." "Oh, Doctor!" murmured Janice. "A fact. It has never had enough nutrition and is going to die of plain starvation." "Can nothing be done to save it?
Of course I hadn't an idea what you were doing, I mean, that you were looking at it. One does senseless little things sometimes." "It looked so angry." "What did?" "Your hand, your arm. You can have no idea how " She broke off again. "Let me come in with you. Let's go to the Hermes." "Oh no, not now." She spoke with almost brusk decision.
"Well," he said and now he was brusk again "I hope Goldsmith and Block are satisfied. They won't be; of course, unless the thing runs forty weeks. But that isn't what I want to talk about. I want to talk about you. I want to know what you're aiming at. I don't mean to-morrow or next week. You'll stay with this piece, I suppose, as long as the run lasts. But in the end, what's the idea?
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