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Ferne's orders were of the curtest: Begone, every man of them, to the Sea Wraith, and lie at anchor waiting for the morning. For himself, he should spend the night ashore; they might leave for him the cockboat, and with the first light he would come aboard. The two prisoners, place them in the ransacked bark and let them go whither they would or could.
"You can do no good," he said. "Wait and see what happens." What did happen was very simple, and for the Count de Brensault a little humiliating. Jeanne passed her arm through the newcomer's and with the curtest of nods to her late companion, disappeared through an open doorway. The Belgian stood looking after them, twirling his moustache with shaking fingers.
The curtest, least graphic description of the biting days and nights in the trenches set the lad shivering. Even his face grew pinched, as though the iron frost of that winter was actually eating into his bones. Sutch touched him lightly on the elbow. "You renew those days for me," said he. "Though the heat is dripping down the windows, I feel the chill of the Crimea."
He had acknowledged the greeting with the curtest of nods. Now he got up, shook hands awkwardly with Mrs. Ilbert, and made his farewells to Mary Gray. It was sheer ill-temper drove him out as soon as they had come. He had wanted to ask Mary if he might bring Nelly when she returned to town. He had wanted ... a good many other things.
He grew hot under her gaze and repeated his offer in the curtest terms. "If this breeze holds, we'll put you on board the steamer soon after daybreak," he explained. The woman's face softened, and he recognized now that there had been strong suspicion in it. "Thank you," she said simply; "we'll come."
Heretofore a ranger had been tolerated by the mountaineers as either a good-for-nothing saloon loafer enjoying the fats of political perquisite; or as a species of inunderstandable fanatic to be looked down upon with good-humoured contempt. Now a ranger became a partisan of the opposing forces, and as such an enemy. Men ceased speaking to him, or greeted him with the curtest of nods.
The only people who remain young nowadays are actors. They keep the child in them. The curtain went up as he spoke. As soon as it was lowered again Conway hurried Drake out of the stalls and up the staircase to the box. Clarice welcomed Drake quietly. Mr. Le Mesurier vouchsafed him the curtest of nods. 'Didn't I see you join Israel Biedermann? asked Fielding.
It was in the City, where Vincent had had business, and he attempted at first to pass the other by with the curtest possible recognition; he had never understood his conduct in the Wastwater episode, and still resented it.
"He could," answered the lawyer; "but where's the man who would? Only one who must die in any chance, and then none but a murderer, I should say." "I don't know I don't know that," said Ralph, rising with ill-concealed agitation, and stalking out of the room, without the curtest leave-taking. VI. On Tuesday, Ralph was walking through Kendal on his northward journey. The day was young.
Then he introduced Miss Rawlinson. The elevator man made her the curtest of bows and proceeded to arrange matters with a rapidity which almost took her breath away. "Typist and stenographer?" he asked. "Know anything about keeping accounts?" Winifred admitted that she possessed these qualifications and Hamilton appeared to reflect for a moment or two.
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