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I saw her eyes flash with indignation, and this time it was I who dropped mine, while I felt my face flushing under her gaze. It was cowardly, but what else could I do? "Mr. Van Weyden speaks with the voice of authority," Wolf Larsen laughed. I nodded my head, and she, having recovered herself, waited expectantly.
"Monsieur Sabran," he said, "I have something to tell you." "Well, what is it?" asked Gontram, expectantly. "H'm, Monsieur Sabran, it is about a lady," murmured the man. "A lady? Which lady?" "I do not know her, and my discretion did not permit me to ask her." Gontram, in spite of his impatience, laughed.
When the door of his prison was thrown open and Henry was then shut in again with his comrades they looked at him expectantly. "Well?" said Paul. "What happened?" said Long Jim. "Anything to tell?" said Tom Ross. "How's your shoulder, Paul?" asked Henry. "Fast getting well," replied Paul, who knew that his comrade would speak in his own good time.
She flushed painfully and hurried by with slight recognition and downcast face, but she had scarcely passed them when, acting under a sudden impulse, she stopped and said in a low tone: "Mr. Ackland " He turned expectantly toward her. For a moment she found it difficult to speak, then ignoring the presence of Mrs. Alston, resolutely began: "Mr.
"I'm glad to see you're all right, Vane," he added; "I'd heard that you were a little under the weather a bilious attack on account of the heat that's all I meant." He did not wait for an answer, nor would he have got one. And he found Mr. Ridout in the hall. "Well?" said the lawyer, expectantly, and looking with some curiosity at the senator's face. "Well," said Mr.
Showing them into a small room furnished with books and scientific apparatus and evidently a study, he set down the lantern and with a sign bade them be seated. Upon their doing so he produced a small pad of paper and a pencil; handing these to Ashton-Kirk he stood peering at them expectantly.
Besides, one of us goes down nearly every day to take him something. He just lies curled up in the shipping-shed, and every time a train comes in he will rush over to the platform, wagging his tail expectantly, and tear around to every one who comes off the train.
Instead, she went to the bay window at the end of the room, which afforded a view of the street, and glanced out expectantly; then bent her attention upon her glove; after that, looked out toward the street again, ceased to whistle, and turned toward the interior of the room. "Why, Georgie!"
The Youngest and Prettiest threw it, Jason-fashion, and waited expectantly for a clash of steel. Instead the Senior Surgeon stepped forward, rather pink and embarrassed. "I should like to withdraw my request for a new surgical ward. It can wait for the present, at least." And then it was that Margaret MacLean and the House Surgeon entered the board-room.
Flibbertigibbet looked about her inquiringly; but the girls were silent. Such singing appeared to them out of the ordinary and so unlike 208! It took them a moment to recover from their surprise; they gathered in groups to whisper together concerning the performance. Meanwhile Flibbertigibbet was waiting expectantly. Where was the well earned applause? And she had reserved the best for the last!
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