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The French officers there were six of them present stared their haughty surprise at the buccaneer leader, whilst the Baron challengingly fired a question at him. "How? You decline it, 'sir? You decline to obey orders, do you say?" "I understood, M. le Baron, that you summoned us to deliberate upon the means to be adopted." "Then you understood amiss, M. le Capitaine.
And then when you told me not to mention it when I came in ...!" She saw that he failed to realize the situation, and she lifted her head challengingly. "You neglect your mother, young man," she said. "Oh, come now, auntie!" he answered quite gently. "You mustn't talk like that. I write to her every week. I've never missed a week. I come down as often as "
"I hope Hedges won't forget the maraschino with the melons. Come into my den, Ledsam." He led the way in courtly fashion. He was the ideal host leading a valued guest to his sanctum for a few moments' pleasant conversation. But when they arrived in the little beamed room and the door was closed, his manner changed. He looked searchingly, almost challengingly at Francis.
"There's the deed to some thousands of acres of the finest timber in this country," he announced challengingly, "all ship-shape in the name of Stephen O'Mara, 2nd! Old Tom bought them for the boy he hid away with him, in the days when timber-lands were going for a song. He paid the taxes until he was drowned, and I I've paid 'em since, my dear!
"He at least thinks of me and wants to show me a good time, and that's more than anybody else does." "Carlia!" "Well, that's the truth." She arose, walked to the table in the middle of the room and stood challengingly before him. "Who are you to find fault? What have you done to " "I'll admit I've done very little; but you, yourself." "Never mind me. What do you care for me?
"Men don't marry women for their clothes," Miss Munch used to say, challengingly, to Nellie. "Oh, don't they, indeed! Well, I've lived longer than sixteen and a half years and I've noticed that it's the up-to-the-minute dame that gets away with it and holds onto it every time, just the same.
Now that he came to think of it, he had never known precisely what Marsden had meant by the word "Romance" he had so frequently taken into his mouth; he only knew that this creed of Romanticism, whatever it was, had been worn rather challengingly, a chip on the shoulder, to be knocked off at some peril or other.
Jerry tried to speak carelessly, but could not keep an excited note out of her voice. "You weren't? Honestly?" Muriel showed bewildered surprise. "You weren't in dominos? Then where were you? Something's happened. I can read that in your faces." She glanced almost challengingly about the half circle. "Something happened, all right enough," replied Jerry with grim emphasis.
"Now don't go up in the air, old girl. I'm onto my job. My grandfather was a state senator, and he could spiel graceful an' pleasin' till the cows come home. So can I. Bill, when I look at you, I'm sorry. I repeat, I'm sorry." He glared challengingly at Mary. "For myself when I look at you an' know all the happiness you got a hammerlock on. Take it from me, you're a wise guy, bless the women.
Through the emptiness of after years, he knew that picture would haunt him with the ache of inexpressible allurement, but now he forced a laugh and, stretching up his own arms, said challengingly, "Jump; I'll catch you."
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