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He had come down the mountain trail singing, but no music travelled with him on his return journey. Nor had she alone known this. Without deigning to notice it, she caught a wink and a nod from one vaquero to another. It was certain they would not forget to "rub it in" when next they met Master Tom.
My eyes scarcely left old Hrolfur, and as the men told me more, my picture of him became clearer and clearer. He sat there silent, holding on to the steering ropes and staring straight ahead, not deigning us a single glance. The crew's story was roughly this. He was born and bred in the village, and he had never left it.
This was easy, for it was advertised as containing ten rooms, and he found the number eked out with the bath-room and two large closets. "It's light enough," said March, "but I don't see how you make out ten rooms." "There's ten rooms," said the man, deigning no proof. March took his fingers off the quarter, and went down-stairs and out of the door without another word.
The large sleeves of her dress hung so loosely that even the long gloves scarcely covered her arms as she moved them when she used her fan. She stepped on briskly, not deigning to wait for her companion, whose business it was to be always at her side.
"I believe I had the honor to meet him here one evening," said Fitzgerald stiffly, slightly emphasizing the word "honor." "I hope you are well, Mr. Fletcher," said Harry, more amused than disturbed by the manner of the aristocratic visitor. "Thank you, my health is good," said Fitzgerald with equal stiffness, and forthwith turned to Oscar, not deigning to devote any more attention to Harry.
"Qu'est-ce-qu'il-y-a la dedans?" he demanded sharply. It was a sufficiently embarrassing situation. I put on a bold front, however, and not deigning to answer, pushed past him and walked with as much leisure as possible along the banquette in the direction which Nick had taken.
But his chere amie pulling his hair for it and the goddess giving him a little kick cotemporaneously, he lay supine; and the peerless creature frisked over his body without deigning him a look, and took her seat at the prow. Pietro Vanucci sat in a sort of collapse, glaring at her, and gaping with his mouth open like a dying cod-fish.
They addressed him two or three times without his deigning to appear to hear them; till, either encouraged by his silence or warmed by vexation, they spoke loud enough to call the attention of the people around them.
Marianne started when she heard his words as if she were awaking from a dream; she left the room silently, and without deigning to glance at Constant, and followed her smiling guide through the halls. In the first anteroom she beheld Grand-marshal Duroc and several generals, who looked at the princess with threatening and sorrowful glances.
"By the instructions of Bana," was his reply "for Bana cannot walk in the sun; no white man of the sultan's breed can do so." Hearing this, the king rose in a huff, without deigning to reply, and busied himself in another court.
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