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That was very like her father always making life easy for her. However, covertly watching Harlan, she was conscious of an emotion that the latter did not suspect.
Yet, too, the keen observer could have seen gathered into shaded corners here and there, a few sombre, low-voiced men talking covertly to each other. They were not the ordinary gossipers; in the faces of some were the marks of furtive design, of sinister suggestion. But it was all so deadly still. The gayest, cheeriest person in Mandakan was Colonel Cumner's son.
Just then he began to cough, and it seemed the cough, too, was more than of the moment. And then he turned and saw her, and smiled, and the smile changed all. As the afternoon wore on the man stopped working and turning a little in his chair sat there covertly watching the girl. She was just typically girl. It was written that she had spent her days in the happy ways of healthful girlhood.
More covertly he hunted, though it tried him sorely, and snatches of conversation untangled from the froth of their utterances did much to simplify his task and give more definition to his search. Somehow his mind never quite freed itself of the haunting memory of his discoveries that early day down the slope of the river bank.
As for me, I was left in a palpitating state of excitement which my father's self-control or sang-froid only served to irritate and enhance, and my head was fairly spinning as, covertly, I watched his pen steadily covering the paper. How could he how could any man of flesh and blood sit down calmly after having been offered the highest honour in the gift of his community!
He cast a covertly sharp, comprehensive glance at Mrs. Brigham with her elaborate calm; at Rebecca quietly huddled in the corner of the sofa with her handkerchief to her face and only one small reddened ear as attentive as a dog's uncovered and revealing her alertness for his presence; at Caroline sitting with a strained composure in her armchair by the stove.
Tom glanced swiftly, covertly at Harry, then responded: "In that case, my dear Don Luis, we are wholly at your service." At the head of the shaft, Nicolas, the servant, awaited them. "Nicolas, you rascal!" exclaimed Don Luis, angrily. "You have not been attending your caballeros." "Your pardon, excellency, but the automobile moved too swiftly for me," pleaded Nicolas.
I dared hardly lift my eyes to the dark and radiant presence facing me across a table furniture that was like a display of treasure. But I did look. She was the girl of the lizard, the girl of the dagger, and, in the solemnity of the silence, she was like a fabulous apparition from a half-forgotten tale. I watched covertly the youthful grace of her features.
No tea yet, I'm afraid." "I should enjoy the milk very much if you can spare it." He made a curious meal. A little hysterical, but stronger at every mouthful. The little man watched him covertly. "Like a wash?" he inquired. "Rather," Douglas answered. After all, it was a good start for the day.
Vane," she said as he took his seat beside her, "but I couldn't resist the chance of driving behind your horse." "I realized," he answered smilingly, "that Pepper was the attraction, and I have more reason than ever to be grateful to him." She glanced covertly at the Vane profile, at the sure, restraining hands on the reins which governed with so nice a touch the mettle of the horse.
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