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Not often did he see them, but sometimes childish curiosity was too strong and he searched out the cowering fugitive in the barn, and if the runaway happened to be communicative, he heard exaggerated tales of cruelty that set even his young blood to tingling with a mighty desire to right their wrongs.
The sight of a man with his hands tightly bound with a scarlet muffler gathered a momentary little crowd at the Inn gate; but, a pair of hansoms being summoned, captives and captors were speedily relieved from vulgar observation. The station reached, it turned out that the communicative Mr.
Cæsar was playing with his favourite long tortoise-shell paper-knife; he seemed unusually indifferent to Christopher's manners, nor did he intervene to save him from the string of sharp questions that ensued. Christopher made effort to answer the questioner with ordinary politeness, but he was not communicative, and Mr. Masters presently leant back in his chair and laughed.
The only mistake a crook ever makes is when he goes outside of his legitimate business and lets some other consideration than the piling up of money influence him." "How do you mean?" asked Pinto wearily. He hated the colonel when he was in this communicative mood of his.
She was gazing at a tiny boy with blond curls, who was looking at her with his blue eyes full of surprise and delight. Then she passed all the children in review, and the pleasure she felt in seeing those living dolls, decked out in their dainty ribbons, made her talkative and communicative.
It appeared unworthy of himself, and a wrong to both his friends. "I know little of Soog-u-gest, and would like to learn more." The fine, bold face of the Indian looked pleased at the frankness of Arundel, and, it is probable, that he was more communicative than if he had been adroitly questioned. His native subtlety might then have taken alarm, and cunning been met by cunning.
Patten usually wound up her reminiscences of the Vicar's wife, of whom, you perceive, she knew but little. It was clear that the communicative old lady had nothing to tell of Mrs. Gilfil's history previous to her arrival in Shepperton, and that she was unacquainted with Mr. Gilfil's love-story. But I, dear reader, am quite as communicative as Mrs.
After serving four years, Clay resolved to become a lawyer, entered the office of the Attorney-General of the State, and one year after was admitted to the bar, having in all probability acquired much legal knowledge from the communicative Chancellor, whom everybody loved and honored, one of the earliest in Virginia to emancipate his slaves, and provide for their support.
I remember very well what he said, because she stopped with a little appearance of confusion. 'Because the coroner insisted gently. 'Because my husband was not as a rule communicative about his business affairs, answered the witness, raising her chin with a faint touch of defiance. 'He did not did not think they would interest me, and as a rule referred to them as little as possible.
"At the last house, sir a little beyond the rest. She is one of her Grace's kitchen-women. They moved her out here, thinking it might be the fever she had." This was plainly a communicative fellow; but the priest thought it wiser not to take too much interest. He tossed the man a coin and rode on. The last house was a little better built than the others, and stood further back from the road.
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