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Her bottom was turned in our direction, and the men were busily engaged in stripping off a quantity of her sheathing and removing several of her planks below the water- line, which, in conjunction with the fact that we detected what looked uncommonly like a couple of shot-holes through her bottom, led us to believe that she, like ourselves, had recently had a very narrow escape of being sunk.
When I reached the spot the robber was still struggling with his victim, who, stretched beneath him on the ground, uttered frightful cries. One hand of the garroter was on his throat, the other was busily rifling his pockets. I came up just in time to prevent a murder, but not to disappoint the robber. As I appeared he hastily rose, releasing the throat of the unfortunate citizen.
Raeburn's lip showed the contempt, the bitterness which the philosopher could not repress, showed also the humiliation of the lover. Here was he, banished from Marcella; here was Wharton, in possession of her mind and sympathies, busily forging a link "It shall be broken!" said Raeburn to himself with a sudden fierce concentration of will. "So much I will claim and enforce."
On the evening of the 12th, orders were received for the German brigade and three squadrons of our regiment to pursue the French upon the Terracinthe road by daybreak on the following morning. I was busily occupied in my preparations for a hurried march when Mike came up to say that an officer desired to speak with me; and the moment after Captain Hammersley appeared.
As for the Vidame who is a fiery fume of a little old gentleman, never happy unless in some way busily employed this period of stagnation was so galling that in sheer pity I mounted him upon his hobby and set him to galloping away.
I remember an occasion when the dry grass had been fired, and a native boy, accompanied by his grown-up brother, was busily employed with others in igniting the yellow reeds on the opposite bank of a small stream, which had checked the advance of the approaching flames.
Now, while you're changing for breakfast, I'll rush round to the Oriental and see if Mrs. Dermot has more news." When he reached the hotel he found Noreen busily packing. She was pale and evidently deeply distressed, although outwardly calm and collected. "You have heard?" she asked, as he entered her sitting-room.
"I do not dare to say that I am proud of my drawing and yet you may perhaps recognize this, if you will look a moment." "Hope! Hope!" came the voice again from the garden. Abel heard it perhaps Hope did not. He was busily opening his port-folio and turning over the drawings, and stepped closer to her, as he said: "There! now, what is that?" and he handed her a sketch.
You of course grumble, but seeing the thing in his light you pay up, and the medicine man goes busily to work with incantations, dances, looking into mirrors or basins of still water, and concoctions of messes to make you a new protecting charm. Human eye-balls, particularly of white men, I have already said are a great charm. Dr. Nassau says he has known graves rifled for them.
He did not know what he would do to Lester and Bob if he caught them in the act of trying to steal the quails; that was a point on which he could not make up his mind until something happened to suggest an idea to him. While he was sitting in his place of concealment, thinking busily, he heard a rustling in the bushes and looked up to see one of Don's hounds approaching.
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