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"You may accept my word of honour," said Colonel Boundary impressively, "that I had no more idea of that man's presence, or of his identity, or of his very existence, than you had." Stafford King came in at that moment, and the colonel, noting the haggard face and the look of care in the dark-lined eyes, felt a certain amount of satisfaction.
Joe was sitting by the window dressed all in white, and the uniform absence of color in her dress rather exaggerated the pallor of her face than masked it. She was reading, apparently with some interest, in a book of which the dark-lined binding sufficiently declared the sober contents.
It makes one rather savage sometimes to see it." "So in your eyes she is a perfect companion?" Montresor laughed. "Oh, as to perfection " "Lady Henry accuses her of intrigue. You have seen no traces of it?" The Minister smiled a little oddly. "Not as regards Lady Henry. Oh, Mademoiselle Julie is a very astute lady." A ripple from some source of secret amusement spread over the dark-lined face.
Done with that kind! He heard a waiter in the drawing-room serving his breakfast. He drew on a dark-lined waistcoat of white piqué like the one worn by the oldest director the day Ram-tah had winked then the perfectly fitting coat of unmistakable checks, and went out to sit at the table. He was resolving at the moment that he would do everything he had ever been afraid to do.
Maggie wondered at the confusion that she detected in him. She looked at him and he dropped his eyes. "Good night, Uncle Mathew." He looked at her then and noticed by her white face and dark-lined eyes what a strain the day had been to her. He saw again the figure in the shabby black hat sobbing in the lane. He suddenly put his arms about her and held her close to him.
Morgan knew that the cogs of the slow machinery by which he had been hoisted from the saddle to the professorial chair had slipped. As he lay there on his back in the shallow ripple of the Arkansas River, the long centipede railroad bridge dark-lined across the broad stream, he turned it in his mind and knew that it was so.
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