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'Is Miss Madden awake? said one of them, looking in Monica's direction. There was no reply. 'She's picked up some feller to-day, continued the speaker, lowering her voice, and glancing round at her companions with a grin. 'Or else she's had him all along I shouldn't wonder. Heads were put forward eagerly, and inquiries whispered. 'He's oldish, I should say.
The highwayman stared at her for some few seconds without speaking, then his coarse, wide lips, which the mask did not come low enough to conceal, parted in a grin showing big yellow, uneven teeth and an ugly gap in the lower jaw where two of the front teeth had once been. "Adieu, madam. Let us hope we shall meet again under happier circumstances."
"I'm not a private detective, and I don't propose to employ one. If I knew some sharp fellow " Just then he caught sight of Gaffney, who sat on a bale of goods within the warehouse door, holding a note in his hand. He stood up with a grin of friendly recognition when he saw Appleyard. "Morning, sir," he said. "Letter from Mr. Allerdyke for you. No answer, but I was to wait till you'd read it."
But it so happened that the officer in charge was possessed of a flickering memory of his own midshipman days, and his twinkling eyes and cheerful grin were reassuring. The boys all openly adored him, and even though they had dubbed him Hercules Hugh, would have formed a door mat of their bodies had he hinted a desire for it.
But it was, perhaps, the mouth of the sufferer that bore most eloquent testimony to the extremity of the tortured body's anguish: it had been forced wide open by the introduction of a thick gag of hard wood, and into this the strong teeth had bitten until they were ground to fragments, while the lips were drawn back in a fearful grin.
I only got one arm, so it's perfectly fair. It seems to be the fashion now days to examine human beings who wear men's clothes but who ain't men so I feel it my PROFESSIONAL DUTY to examine this here speciment before us." The grin kind o' left his face when I started for him. He wasn't near my size, but me only havin' one workin' arm made it fair.
"What do you think of us?" called Jacob Farnum, a broad grin of delight on his face. "You'll do," admitted Kimball. "Do you consider yourself sunk?" demanded David Pollard, laughingly. "Theoretically, yes," assented Lieutenant Commander Kimball. "I wonder if you could do it as well in war time?" "Couldn't possibly do anything like it in war time," called back Captain Jack Benson.
I would not, for anything, offend the reader's dignity, but I must think that this midwinter garden may be made at least as much lovelier than no garden as Alice's Cheshire cat was lovelier with or without its grin than the grin without the cat. Shall we summarize? Our gist is this: that those gardens of New Orleans are as they are, not by mere advantage of climate but for several other reasons.
Foster said he meant to do so and the other pondered. "Weel, there's a soft flow where ye might get mired if ye left the road, which is no' that plain, and I could set ye on the way, but there's a bit job I'll hae to finish first." He paused and added with a grin as he indicated the net: "Maybe ye hae a notion what it is."
"Ah, my h'Italian friend!" said the master-at-arms, who overheard him, with a broad grin on his face, which was reflected on that of Mr Brown; "so you're going to leave us too, eh! Well, as some writing chap says somewhere or t'other in some book I've read, we could have better spared a better boy than you, Paddy.
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