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But I want Peter's gold, an' I wouldn't get it if I give him away." "Did you come straight back here?" Eve questioned him sharply, a faint hope stirring her. "Yep, sis, straight here." He laughed silently while he watched her with feline glee. "An' jest as fast as I could get, too. You see, I guessed I might miss Doc Crombie." "Doc Crombie?" The girl's eyes dilated. She stood like one petrified.
Melmoth drank a glass of wine, with the benevolent intention of allaying the anxiety of Hugh Crombie and the students. He then prepared to depart; for a strong wind had partially dispersed the clouds, and occasioned an interval in the cataract of rain.
Peter Blunt he knew he could rely on to the last. And, somehow, this man, to his mind, was an even more powerful factor than Doc Crombie. It was not that Peter held any great appeal with the people, but somehow there was a reserve of mental strength in the man that lifted him far above his fellows, in his capacity to do in emergency.
A considerable proportion of the remainder are Anacreontics; though, in their construction, Hugh Crombie imitated neither the Teian nor any other bard. These latter have generally a coarseness and sensuality intolerable to minds even of no very fastidious delicacy.
He turned to the bar and called for a drink, which he devoured thirstily. But Doc Crombie was not to be dealt with in so cavalier a fashion. "You'll come along up an' show us just wher' Henderson is," he said sharply. "It'll make it easier findin'." He stepped up to him, and tapped him on the shoulder. "Do you get me? Ther's been murder done, an' "
Their manoeuvre went on so vigorously that Blatchford became alarmed, and sent an ambassador to arrange a compromise; but by this time Crombie had determined to oust Blatchford himself and elect an entirely new set of men, to compose more than half the Board, and so control everything. He succeeded.
Crombie, a very decent woman, is a friend of mine, and I hae stude her friend in this case, and brought her wi' credit into the court, and I doubtna that in due time she will win out o't wi' credit, win she or lose she.
As my father was scaling a dark ruinous turnpike staircase, his greyhound ran up before him, and probably was the means of saving his life, for the animal fell through a trap-door, or aperture in the stair, thus warning the owner of the danger of the ascent. "By my faith," said the page, "Crombie is more lordly lodged than any one here!"
Blanche broke in, her eyes dancing, while her lips parted in a smile. "Yes, yes; that's what I meant." "They came up just after dinner," Blanche returned. "Then you are the gentleman." "I'm afraid I am," Crombie owned, and they both laughed. Blanche quietly, and with no apparent intention, resumed her chair; and this time Crombie took a seat without waiting to be invited again.
Jim Thorpe hasn't an evil thought in his " "Hold on," cried Doc Crombie, excitedly, as the swing doors were pushed suddenly open. "Here's some one who'll mebbe have a word to say fer himself. You're jest in time to say a word or two, Jim Thorpe," he smiled, as the man's pale face appeared in their midst. "Here he is," cried Smallbones, his wicked eyes sparkling. "Here he is, fellers.
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