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Only thing: here's a valuable uncle disappeared. Now, what I want to know: where's valuable uncle? 'I have told you: he is at Browndean, answered Morris, furtively wiping his brow, for these repeated hints began to tell upon him cruelly. 'Very easy say Brown Browndee no' so easy after all! cried Michael. 'Easy say; anything's easy say, when you can say it.
The delay was Harris's agitated endeavor to refresh his memory about "them basins." "Is it now?" he whispered to Blair, furtively rubbing his thumb on the shiny seam of his trousers. Blair, looking a little sick, whispered back: "Oh, throw 'em out of the window." "Aw', now, Mr. Blair," poor Harris protested, "I clean forgot; is it with these here tomatoes, or with the dessert?" "Go to the devil!"
Once gone, I'll see to it that she never comes again. Aha! I am happy now, and can smile in joy and truth." Once more within her quiet chamber, Leah locked the door and stood a moment with frightened face gazing furtively around the room. All was silent. The beating of her own wild heart was all the sound she heard.
The trail of a sachet-scented petticoat could be detected on this length of Brussels carpet, the acrid vulgarity of eau de Cologne hung like a curtain before an open door, a vision of white silk gleamed for a moment as it fled from room to room: men in a strange garb black velvet and steel buttons hurried away, tripping over their swords, furtively ashamed of their stockinged calves.
It is a very noticeable thing that, in fairy families, the youngest is always chief person, and usually becomes a prince or princess; and children remember this, and think it must be so among humans also, and that is why they are often made uneasy when they come upon their mother furtively putting new frills on the basinette.
"So," said the master, pleasant again, and Pierre wiped his forehead furtively and stared up with fascinated eyes. "An unwilling pledge is better than none at all. To you, gentleman, much happiness; to you, Pierre le Rouge, bon voyage." They drank; the master placed his glass on the table again, smiled upon them, and was gone through the door. He turned his back in leaving.
"I trust that you have become reconciled to this separation, dear Brother Forbes," he began solemnly, "and that you can say in your heart 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Duncan Forbes did not answer for the space of a minute, during which time his pastor watched him furtively from under his eyebrows. "My son was my all," he muttered finally.
What they were doing there I could not imagine, for neither had the look of habitues of such a place. I followed Kennedy's eye and found that he was gazing furtively at a flashily dressed young man who was sitting alone at the far end in a sort of booth upholstered in leather. The girl in white, whom I was now sure was Miss Sawtelle, went over and greeted him.
Then she put the beans, hot bread, and tea on the table. Sammy came in, and the family drew up. Adoniram sat looking dazedly at his plate, and they waited. "Ain't you goin' to ask a blessin', father!" said Sarah. And the old man bent his head and mumbled. All through the meal he stopped eating at intervals, and stared furtively at his wife; but he ate well.
Their attention had been keenly, though furtively, concentrated upon Seth, who sat in a corner, apparently half asleep. In fact, having just noticed them, he had closed his eyes as though he were too weary and worn out to talk. Both men curtly acknowledged Barrington's greeting, hardly conscious of the curtness maybe.
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