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'Who is to stand and deliver, then? 'I don't know; I only repeat what he says: unless he has an eye on my Aunt Beauchamp; and I doubt his luck there, if he wants money for political campaigning. 'Money! Colonel Halkett ejaculated. That word too was in the heart of the heiress. Nevil must have money! Could he have said it?
"Madam," he said almost roughly, "I have shut my daughter up in her own room and bolted the door, and to-morrow I intend to send her to a convent, and there she shall stay until she changes her mind, for I will not change mine" "Oh!" ejaculated Doña Ana, with a long intonation, as if grasping the position of affairs by degrees. "I understand," she said, after a long time.
And the spectators, male and female, crowded round, and the fishermen exerted themselves so efficiently, that in two minutes the net was on dry land. "Nothing but weeds and rubbish!" ejaculated the disappointed butler, a peculiarly blank look taking the place of his usual self-importance. "What can have become of the fish?" "The net has been improperly drawn," observed Mr.
And speakin' of the trail, that wasn't the Red Rivah yo' crossed. It was the Wichita. And yo' must have gone ovah the Wichita Mountains, too." "The Wichita!" ejaculated one of the other men. "Why, Modoc, yuh told us " "And I told yuh right!" said the leader furiously. "I've been over this route before, and I know just where we are." "Yo're in The Terror's territory," drawled The Kid softly.
The boy gazed upon the inanimate form, but he was dazed, and could not realize that his mother had left him, never to return. "She is gone," said Mr. Manning, softly. "Dead!" ejaculated Frank. "Yes, her sufferings are over. Let us hope she is better off. My boy, I think you had better return to your bed. You can do nothing for your mother now." "I would rather stay here," said Frank, sadly.
"Even so," said Middlemore, rallying and returning to the attack, "he invited us all to lunch in his tent, and how could we better repay him for opening his hampers, than by returning his SPIRIT SCOT-FREE and UNHAMPERED to Heaven," "Oh, oh, oh," ejaculated St.
He paused, morsel in hand, seemed to miss something, turned his head from side to side, slowly, like a man with a stiff neck, and ejaculated in an ill-humoured bass "Babalatchi!" The players glanced up quickly, and looked down again directly. Those men who were standing stirred uneasily as if prodded by the sound of the chief's voice.
"What do you say, Budge?" "Same here," agreed Roger. The long-drawn shriek of a locomotive rose from the valley-bottom. "There's the five-ten!" ejaculated Lane. "I pity Whittington when his dad finds how things have gone." "Percy isn't the only one who needs sympathy," said Spurling, soberly. "What about his father?" "I'm sorry for 'em both," was Lane's comment.
Buck looked at him in amazement. "Well, why in thunder don't you show th' boys, then?" he burst forth at last. "'Cause if I do Wash Gibbs'll hear of it sure, and I'll have to fight him to settle which is th' best man." "Good Lord!" ejaculated Buck, with a groan. "If you're afraid o' Wash Gibbs, it's th' first thing I ever knowed you t' be scared o'."
"In chase of whom?" asked Captain Applegarth, still believing him to be out of his mind. "In chase of whom?" The man uttered a heart-rending cry, in which anger, grief and piteous appeal were alike blended. "In chase of a band of black miscreants who have committed murder and piracy on the high seas!" he ejaculated in broken accents.
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