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The whole crew came through the door in an orderly but somewhat embarrassed manner. A few of the men had on shirts, some undershirts, others were stripped to the waist, their torsos shining with moisture, Deschaillon's hand trembled slightly as he lighted two bracket lamps, Hogan's little eyes sparkled in anticipation. "What is it, Galton?" Madden picked out the nearest man bruskly.
The girl in the aisle stood, bent toward us, perplexity and alarm fighting in her face. With twitching hands the porter attempted to draw the curtains together. Then in a paralysis of shock, he collapsed on the edge of my berth and sat there swaying. In my excitement I shook him. "For Heaven's sake, keep your nerve, man," I said bruskly. "You'll have every woman in the car in hysterics.
"It was very commendable of you, I'm sure, and some one, doubtless, will be very much relieved. But for me personally the incident is closed! Closed, I said. Do you understand?" Bruskly he turned back toward his own room, and then swung around again suddenly in the doorway. "Eve," he frowned. "That was a joke wasn't it? what you said about wanting to keep that young man?"
Bruskly the Senior Surgeon's hand jerked out and grabbed at her skirt. "Don't leave me!" he begged. "For God's sake don't leave me!" Weakly he struggled up again and sat staring piteously at the blazing car. His unrelinquished clutch on the White Linen Nurse's skirt brought her sinking softly down beside him like a collapsed balloon.
But I'm ME again." "Where is Yuruk?" I turned to Drake bruskly to smother the sob of sheer happiness I felt rising in my throat; and at his wink and warning grimace abruptly forebore to press the question. "You men pick out the things and I'll get breakfast ready," said Ruth. Drake picked up the teakettle and motioned me before him. "About Yuruk," he whispered when he had gotten outside.
Stampa tells me that a first rate guxe, which is Swiss for a blizzard, I believe, is blowing up. This thunder storm is the preliminary to a heavy downfall of snow. That is why I came. If we are not off the glacier before two o'clock, it will become impassable till a lot of the snow melts." "What is that you are saying?" demanded Bower bruskly.
You never wish to talk with me. You will do all the talking as usual, I fear." "You are inclined to be saucy," bruskly rejoined Aunt Euphemia. "As your father is away I feel more deeply my responsibility in this matter. You are a wayward girl you always have been." "You don't expect me to agree with you on that point, do you, auntie?" Louise asked sweetly. Mrs.
The milliner shot out a sharp glance at her. "Sit down," she said bruskly, and nodded to a chair. Rose didn't much want to. Her instinct was to stay on her feet until she'd won her battle, and her fatigue only heightened it. But Miss Gibbons had given her an order rather than an invitation, and she obeyed it. The older woman didn't sit down.
Action and movement brought a measure of relief from the very start. Leighton glanced almost eagerly from the windows of the hurrying train, watching for the sudden turn and the new view. There remained in his eyes, however, a desperate question. Was "going away" still the sovereign cure? At New York a cable awaited him. He opened it, read it, and turned bruskly to Lewis.
A couple of hours' sleep had made him himself again; and he had regained the arrogance of manner which was the distinguishing trait of his character, and a sure sign that he was in prosperous circumstances. As his unknown visitor entered he looked up, and bruskly asked: "What do you want?" "I called on business, monsieur." "Ah, well! this isn't a favorable moment.
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