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The newcomer walked up and down, watching the proceedings for a time, glancing occasionally at the receding shore, and Hilary rapidly gave order after order, feeling a strange joy and excitement as for the next quarter of an hour he was busy, and kept pretty close to the sailor at the wheel. All at once there was a puff of smoke from one of the forts, and the deep roar of a gun.
Glancing round, I saw a hundred small flames spurt up, and a hundred men hold them to a hundred glowing cigar-tips. "After you with the match." Gervase took it from me with a steady hand. He, too, glanced about him while he puffed. "Ugh!" He blew a long cloud, and shivered within his furred overcoat. "What a gang!"
And so well did he move her courage, in his old protective way, without a word that could offend her or depreciate her love, that she for the moment, like a woman, wondered at her own despair. Also, like a woman, glancing into this and that, instead of any steadfast gazing, she had wholesome change of view, winning sudden insight into Albert's thoughts concerning her.
The unlovely bread-and-butter business pressed upon her. With a long breath she put the vision from her and turned her attention to the task at hand. After her custom, she went through the pile, glancing at the titles and first lines of each manuscript, and putting it aside in the desk corner to be considered in detail later on.
Sydney Campion opened the case for the prosecution in a business-like way, just glancing at the unhappy relations which had existed between the prisoner and his wife for several years past, and freely admitting that there appeared to have been faults on both sides.
"There is a great deal of it," said she, glancing along the paper, and interrupting the sweetest sounds which mortal ears can drink in, those of a youthful poet's verses, namely, read by the lips which are dearest to him.
"Yes, madam." "To-day?" "Yes, madam." "Then good-by, Barnabas! And remember that even roses, like all things else, have a habit of fading, sooner or later." And thus, without even glancing at him, the Duchess went out of the room and closed the door softly behind her.
Fred was about to confide to him the secret of the buried treasure, and solicit his aid, when we were interrupted by the entrance of a stranger, dressed in the uniform of an English officer. "I beg your pardon, sirs," he said, glancing around the hut with a slightly supercilious air at the want of comfort which was plainly manifest, "but I think I have entered the wrong house."
His plan seemed decidedly a good one, especially from the strength of conviction with which he spoke. Kutuzov looked down at his own legs, occasionally glancing at the door of the adjoining hut as if expecting something unpleasant to emerge from it. And from that hut, while Denisov was speaking, a general with a portfolio under his arm really did appear.
"Deposited them with Horbury, you know, some weeks ago when we went abroad," replied Lord Ellersdeane. "Safe keeping, you know said he'd lock 'em up." Gabriel turned slowly to Joseph. But Joseph shook his head and Neale, glancing from one partner to the other, felt himself turning sick with apprehension.
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