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This objection silenced the General for a moment; but he replied bruskly: "Do you think that I keep my eyes in my pocket? What you have remarked did not escape my notice; only I said to myself, here is a young man who has profited by leave of absence to visit the wig maker." "At least " But Gevrol would permit no more interruptions. "Enough talk," he declared. "We will now hear what has happened.
Next day the governor of the jail came suddenly into the cell and put to Robinson several questions, which he answered with great affability; then, turning on his heel, said bruskly, "Have you anything to say to me?" "Yes, sir, if you please." "Out with it then, my man," said the governor impatiently.
Her whole supple person turned eel-like, and she glided quickly, but not the least bruskly, from him; the latter might have seemed discourteous. "Oh, Mr. Dodd," she cried, "what am I doing?" "You have been getting a nice sleep, thank Heaven." "Yes, and making use of you even in my sleep; but we all impose on your goodness." "Why did you awake?
"He sent me down-stairs to order Macfarlane to arrest Doane." Colina fell back against the door-frame with a hand to her breast. "Did he did he see him?" she whispered. "No," said Giddings reluctantly. "He did not see his assailant. But said to accuse Strange of the deed was the act of a desperate criminal." "You're under arrest!" Macfarlane said bruskly to Ambrose.
"Vara true, sirr; vara true, and sae I doot I will never attain the height o' profeeciency ye hae reached. An' at this vara moment, sir," continued Groove, with delicious solemnity and mystery, "ye see before ye, sir, a man wha is in maist dismal want o' ten shellen!" Gaattie." "Why did you not come to the point at once?" cried Gatty, bruskly, "instead of humbling me with undeserved praise.
Captain Macpherson looked toward Sir Charles and his lady, the other passengers lounging around them, a little girl, at the rail, her hair, blown windward, a splash of gold against the blue sky. "What for?" said the skipper bruskly. "To have a look at the convicts, I suppose." "What good'll that do them?" growled the commander. "Idle curiosity, that's what I call it. Well, go along.
Grotesquely a little smile went scudding zig-zag across his haggard face. With an impulse absolutely alien to him he reached out abruptly again and raised the White Linen Nurse's hand to his lips. "'Good God' was what I meant Miss Malgregor!" he grinned a bit sheepishly. Quite bruskly then he turned and looked at his watch.
It was patent that the young man was not troubled with nerves. "Here!" he cried, bruskly, tossing over a pair of gloves. "If this method of settling the dispute isn't satisfactory, I'll accept your explanations." For reply Courtlandt stood up and stripped to his undershirt. He drew on the gloves and laced them with the aid of his teeth. Then he kneaded them carefully.
Ah! if I were a woman like other women, I would say nothing to-day, and, before the year was over, you would again be at my feet. "She must have been thinking of our meeting at the cross-roads. Or was this the last outburst of passion at the moment when the last ties were broken off? I was going to speak again; but she interrupted me bruskly, saying, "'Oh, that is enough!
Nancy burst out sobbing afresh. "You have punished him," said she, bruskly, "and me, too, as never did you no harm. You have driven him out of the country, you have." At this piece of feminine justice Helen's anger revived.
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