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Well, that is a happy spirit for Christmas time, I should say! Humph! I did not expect to find anything quite so mean as that!" Miss Terry returned to the fireside, fumbled in the box, and drew out a doll. She was an ugly, old-fashioned doll, with bruised waxen face of no particular color. Her mop of flaxen hair was straggling and uneven, much the worse for the attention of generations of moths.
Anybody would have known that except you, Charles Batty. 'Yes, but nobody tells me things. I have to find them out. He sighed. 'It takes time. But now I know. 'Very well. You're released from the engagement you made all by yourself. I had nothing to do with it. 'No, he said mildly, 'but I can't be released, so the only way out of it is for you to be engaged too. He fumbled in a pocket.
Looking at the pink note, he thought: 'Suppose I'd married Alice a man never had a better mistress! He fumbled the drawer to; but still he strayed feebly about the room, with a curious shrinking from sitting down, legacy from the quarter of an hour he had been compelled to sit while that hound worried at his throat. He was opposite one of the pictures now.
"No matter; so long as they're alive, they must be treated," another voice, crisp and cultivated, rebuked. "Better start taking names, while we're waiting." "Yes, sir." Fingers fumbled at his identity badge. "Hartley, Allan; Captain, G5, Chem. Research AN/73/D. Serial, SO-23869403J." "Allan Hartley!" The medic officer spoke in shocked surprise.
After looking cautiously around to see that we were alone, she fumbled in the front of her dress and produced a small chamois leather bag which was hung round her neck by a white cord. "Massa," she said, bending down and croaking the words into my ear, "me die soon. Me very old woman. Not stay long on Massa Murray's plantation." "You may live a long time yet, Martha," I answered.
Conscription, he said with the emphasis of finality as he fumbled in wet straw for a wetter boot, 'out-an'-out, lock, stock, 'n barrel Conscription. That same night Ben Shrillett was presiding at a meeting of the Strike Committee.
His blue eyes looked strangely from out the flaming red of his mud-splotched face. Chrisfield took the cigarette, and fumbled in his pocket for a match. "That nearly did it for me," said Andrews. Chrisfield grunted. He pulled greedily on the cigarette. A whistle blew. Slowly the men dragged themselves off the ground and fell into line, drooping under the weight of their equipment.
While these fumbled with their bonnets and their iniquity, and vacillated between respect for a burgomaster, and suspicion that this one was as great a rogue as themselves, and somehow or other, on their side against Gerard, pros and cons were coursing one another to and fro in the keen old man's spirit. Vengeance said let Gerard come back and feel the weight of the law.
"I caught a terrible cold," she said, laughing nervously. "I'm not used to the climate," she added guardedly. The man fumbled in his pocket and produced smoking material. "Do you mind if I smoke?" he asked perfunctorily. "Why, no. It doesn't concern me in the slightest degree." Why, she thought confusedly, must she always be reminded of that horrible place of rocks?
Do you not get afraid that you will experience the wrath of the dead? Listen! Is that the wind rustling the leaves? Or is it " A gasp burst from the white lips, and the die was cast. While the cold drops started on her pain-racked body, she dragged herself to her knees and fumbled with trembling hands about her belt.
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