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"Well, well," Crowell began, his restless hands twisting themselves round each other. "Now, be quiet, Mrs, Embury I declare, I don't know how to say what I have to say, if you sit there like a chained tiger " "Go on!" Eunice now seemed to usurp something of Crowell's own dictatorship. "Go on, Dr. Crowell!" "Well, ma'am, I will. But there's not much to tell.
And in the background, Ferdinand, the well-trained butler, hovering in the doorway. All these things Driscoll studied, for his method was judging from the manners of individuals, whereas, Shane gathered his conclusions from their definite statements. And, having listened to Dr. Crowell's account, Shane turned to Eunice and said bluntly, "You and your husband good friends?" Eunice gasped.
He found the boys in high spirits, for they had gathered two more tallies by taking Crowell's measure, while again Hooker had pulled through without being scored upon, which made the scorers' record six to three in favor of the visitors at the beginning of the seventh. Oakdale seemed to have the game bagged.
After the day on which he had lost himself upon Sir Christopher Crowell's land and, lying among the bracken, had heard the talk of the sportsmen below, he had known why he had been so reticent, and during his last two years he had realised that this reticence had but increased.
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