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"I say, sir," said Grimes, with his gaze still riveted upon Bellew, "I say no sir, I say make it another twenty pound sir!" Again there rose the shuffle of feet, again heads were nodded, and elbows nudged neighbouring ribs, and all eyes were focussed upon Bellew who was in the act of lighting his pipe. "One hundred and six pounds!" cried the Auctioneer, "at one six! at one six!
Jim was watching, as well as he could, the immobile, expressionless face, and did not immediately note that Monsieur Chatelard had drawn a small, shiny object from his hip pocket and was holding it carelessly in his lap. As his gaze focussed on the revolver, however, he did the one thing, perhaps, which at that moment could have put the Frenchman off his guard.
One evidence only of modern civilization did we see the railway from Sebenico to Spalato, the first we had come near in Dalmatia; and we congratulated ourselves that we were travelling by automobile instead. No tunnels to shut out some wonderful view, just as our eyes had focussed on it, no black smoke, no stuffy air, no need to think of time tables!
The Assistant Commissioner glanced in the direction of the window calmly. “You will allow me to remark, Sir Ethelred, that so far I have had no opportunity to give you assurances of any kind.” The haughty droop of the eyes was focussed now upon the Assistant Commissioner. “True,” confessed the deep, smooth voice. “I sent for Heat. You are still rather a novice in your new berth.
It's hard on her she's got a little girl who was always ailin' sickly from the first." He fumbled at his scrubby black beard, his rat-like eyes focussed on the ground. "One moment, Mr. Bergstein," said Thayor, suddenly turning on his heel and going into the house. Presently he returned and handed Bergstein an unsealed white envelope.
At the opera, in the illumination of the first entr'acte, as she gazed about the house, wondering through the numb ache of her wretchedness how others could talk and smile and be indifferent, it seemed to her that all the jarring animation about her was suddenly focussed in the face of Clemence Verney.
Demosthenes Platterbaff, the eminent Unrest Inducer, stood on his trial for a serious offence, and the eyes of the political world were focussed on the jury. The offence, it should be stated, was serious for the Government rather than for the prisoner.
Shatrak was back at the screen to the Empress Eulalie. "Patrique, get a jam-beam focussed on that telecast station at the Citadel; get it off the air. Then broadcast on the same wavelength; announce that anybody claiming sanctuary at the Proconsular Palace will be taken in and protected. And start getting troops down, and all the spacemen you can spare."
His broad forehead gave promise of great intellectual power, a promise half belied by the narrow gray eyes beneath it. These were eyes which might see keenly, and would certainly see things just as they are, though they were not likely to catch any glimpse of that greater world where objects cannot be focussed sharply.
When the task was finished he ran forward to join Dick, hidden in the bushes. Eight months of toil focussed in the moment. The faint creaking of the shoes came ever louder down the wind. Once it paused. Dick caught his breath. Had the traveller discovered anything suspicious? He glanced behind him. "Where's the girl?" he hissed between his teeth. "Damn her, she's warned him!"
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