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Dodd, perhaps he carried you that you might not have damp feet." "Nothing of the kind yes, it was, though, by his coloring up. La! David, dear boy!" "What is a man alongside for but to keep a girl out of mischief?" said David, bruskly. "Pray convert all your sex to that view," laughed Lucy. So now they were going. Then Mr.

Again she waited until the guests had gone away, and with a lighter heart, since she felt that she had nothing to fear. But when she met Napoleon in his private cabinet, alone, his mood was very different from that which he had shown before. Instead of gentleness and consideration he was the Napoleon of camps, and not of courts. He greeted her bruskly.

The ward room of the prize has at least two wounded officers in it, and I don't know how many more, so that my poor uncle has no place to lay his head if he is sick," said Christy, full of sympathy for his father's brother. "That will never do!" exclaimed the commander bruskly. "He shall have a place to lay his head, sick or well.

"The chances are that the prince will see the boat, land and get you." "And if he doesn't?" "There are plenty of biscuits, and I'll send back for you when I can." "That prospect is not very inviting," she demurred. "Suppose I elect not to risk it to go with you?" "It is for you to decide, and quickly," he said in a cold crisp tone. "You dismiss my fate bruskly, Monsieur," she returned.

"I wish you would try to look cheerful, Liddy," I groaned, "your face would sour milk." But Liddy seldom replied to my gibes. She folded her lips a little tighter. "He called her up," she said oracularly, "he called her up, and asked her to keep you at the telephone, so he could talk to Miss Louise. "Nonsense!" I said bruskly. "I might have known enough to leave them.

But I heard a shot, and it just struck me " At that moment he was almost ashamed of loving her so much. "Well, there's the brigand, and I do believe he's going to shoot again. The ruffian! Yes, he's taking aim! Oh, Dion, let's seek cover." Still laughing, she shrank against him. He put one arm round her shoulder bruskly, and his hand closed on her tightly.

I had no trepidation now in facing Patricia. I walked boldly to the Davis cabin and thrust my head in the door. Only Davis and his wife were there. "Where are the Dales?" I bruskly asked. "Gone," grunted Davis in disgust. "Gone back home?" I eagerly asked. "What do you think!" babbled Mrs. Davis. "Cousin Ericus has took that gal down toward the Clinch.

Graham that you speak about," he said, "but I won't deny that you may be right about it." It was well after closing time by now a fact that the manager, coming to reinforce the saleswoman, contrived, without saying so, to indicate. "Put on your street things," said Galbraith bruskly. "I'll wait."

Also he had given me a few directions that he appeared to think of a great sufficiency and had ordered a taxi to be in readiness for me. "Nonsense, Nurse," he said to Nannette bruskly but not with unkindness when I had translated to him Nannette's weeping protests. "A great strapping girl like that can get down to the Harpeth Valley all right by herself.

With a whimper of pain and fright he dropped back upon his haunches and waited for his mother to save him. The old bear turned, bounced back, and cuffed him so bruskly that he found breath enough to utter a loud squall and go stumbling forward for another score of yards. Then he gave out, and sank upon his too-distended stomach, whimpering piteously.

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