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As Cleek rose from this private investigation and stretched his hands over his head, he gave a sudden little laugh. "Well, you'll be able to rest yourself as much as you like this evening, Mr. Lake," he said, lightly, trying the muscles of his right arm with his left hand, and nodding as he felt them ride up, smooth and firm as ivory, under his coat-sleeve.
And the little girl clutched at her father's coat-sleeve to demonstrate the closeness of relationship, while the sobs came thick and fast. "Nobody but Jerusha!" The father brought his chair down from the wall, and all the blood in his body seemed to rush to his face. "Nobody standing close! Where be I standing?
Lamartine served the grouse, and leaned across the table to me. "Captain Rotherby," he said, "I think I will tell you now why, notwithstanding the risk of Monsieur Louis, I asked you to lunch with me here at this restaurant. But look! See who comes!" He laid his fingers upon my coat-sleeve. I turned my head.
Halicarnassus curved the thumb and forefinger of his right hand into an arch, the ends of which rested on the wrist of his left coat-sleeve. He then lifted the forefinger high and brought it forward. Then he lifted the thumb and brought it up behind the forefinger, and so made them travel up to his elbow.
Such a thing had never happened before; and not only so, but "her gentleman" had given her no greeting had not so much as seen her! "Well, well, Cibot," said she to her spouse, "M. Pons has come in for a million, or gone out of his mind!" "That is how it looks to me," said Cibot, dropping the coat-sleeve in which he was making a "dart," in tailor's language.
"He lay that way all the while since your last visit," said the sullen derelict keeper. A hasty search of the cell showed an empty vial. "Chloral! Here is the key to the mystery!" cried Atwater, examining the coat, flung aside when the body was lifted. "See this torn sleeve! The murderer had hidden the bottle of poison here in the thick breast-wadding of the coat under the coat-sleeve.
Her lips were shaking, drawn down at the corners like those of a distressed child, but her harsh old voice quivered triumphantly. A very kindly gleam showed itself in Garth's dark face as he patted the rough, red hand that clutched his coat-sleeve. "Yes, I've brought them back safely," he said. "Put them to bed, Jane.
He was not unwilling to respond, and after a few questions I learned, to my chagrin, that he was a photographer. Alas for my deductions! But surely, Fleming Stone himself would not have guessed a photographer from a worn and shiny coat-sleeve. At the risk of being rudely personal, I made some reference to fashions in coats.
What you want to bet?" cried the interpreter, jerking himself half up and thrusting out one arm while he bared it of its coat-sleeve with the hand of the other. "What you want to bet?" "How do you know?" asked the official. "Dass what I goin' to tell you. You know, one evening I was shooting some grosbec. I killed three, but I had trouble to fine them, it was becoming so dark.
Miller, and Marcia Fenton, and Ella Backus, they could not be to her all Melinda had been, while Andy Ethelyn felt the lumps rising in her throat whenever she thought of him and the burst of tears with which he had heard that she was going away. "I can't help thinkin' it's for the wuss," he said, wiping his smooth face with the cuff of his coat-sleeve.
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