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"I'll do that if you will kindly think over what I have said," she retorted, with the utmost composure; and then, after a curt good-evening, she passed through the door I held open, nodding to me, as though she would have remarked, "I'm more than a match for your master still, young man." "What a woman that is!" exclaimed Mr. Craven, as I resumed my seat.
When he regained his equilibrium from the quick sidewise leap from the car, and stood hesitating a little, as one will do before a strange house, for he was not quite sure as to his bearings, he saw a white blur as of feminine apparel in the front doorway. He advanced tentatively up the little path between two rows of flowering bushes, and Ellen rose. "Good-evening, Mr.
"Jack," she said at last, "this is your stepfather." Mr. Letts, in some difficulty as to the etiquette on such occasions, released his right arm and extended his hand. "Good-evening, stepfather," he said, cheerfully. Mr. Green drew back a little and regarded him unfavorably. "We we thought you was drowned," he said at last. "I was nearly," said Mr. Letts. "We all thought so," pursued Mr.
Presently a rich stranger came along the lane, and seeing someone there, as he supposed, he said: 'Good-evening, friend! a fine night to-night! But the goldsmith's wife said nothing. The man then repeated his words louder; but still there was no reply. A third time he shouted: 'Good-evening, friend! are you deaf? but the figure never replied.
And before she could hunt up her ever-scanty purse the child had said Good-evening, and vanished. Hanny heard the "spells" rather rudely explained a day or two after, and understood the melancholy shadow that hung about the house.
"It's twenty minutes of eleven, and I have to take the eleven-o'clock train to Boston. I must bid you good-evening, gentlemen. I've just time to get it if I can catch a cab. Good-night, good-night. I hope if you come to Boston eh Good-night! Sometimes," he called over his shoulder, "I've thought it might have been that girl in the stateroom that started the dreaming."
"I could not tell, mother," replied Mercy, indifferently; "for it was just their tea-hour, and I did not stay a minute, only just to say, How d'ye do, and Good-evening. But Mr. White says she is very lonely; people don't go to see her much: so I should think she would be very glad of somebody her own age in the house, to come and sit with her. She looks very ill, poor soul.
I am endeavouring to explain that my cousin and the gentleman left in a very remarkable manner by means of a Magic Carpet, which " "Excuse me, sir," said the Inspector, getting up from his seat and showing me the door, "it strikes me that it's a lunatic asylum you want and not a Police Station. I haven't any time to waste with people who come here with stories like that. Good-evening!"
She merely said, with a slight mechanical smile: "As soon as this dance is over, sir, I'll let Miss Prohack know she's wanted." She did not say: "Sir, a person of your eminence is above rules. Go right in." Two girls in all-enveloping dark cloaks entered behind him. "Good-evening, Lizzie," one of them greeted the guardian. And Lizzie's face relaxed into a bright genuine smile.
When we found our sight four revolvers covered us, and between two of them the colossal frame of Reuben Rosenthall shook with a wheezy laughter from head to foot. "Good-evening, boys," he hiccoughed. "Glad to see ye at last. Shift foot or finger, you on the left, though, and you're a dead boy. I mean you, you greaser!" he roared out at Raffles. "I know you. I've been waitin' for you.
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