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One of the young men, feeling the draught, glanced languidly over his shoulder, and got on his feet with extraordinary expedition! He said something under his breath. But it was the abrupt silence of the room that made Blair turn round. It did not need his stammering dismay, his half-cringing "Clear out, will you, you fellows " to get the men out of the room.
I have known him for years, have watched him, have studied him." All eyes turned towards Seymour Michael, who stood half-cringing, trembling with fear and hatred towards his relentless judges. "Years ago," pursued Ruthine, "at the outset of life, he committed a wanton crime. He did a wrong to a poor innocent woman, whose only fault was to love him beyond his deserts.
"For intimidation and using threatening language, and endeavouring to extort money under false pretences." "There's no witnesses," the sailor said in a half-cringing, half-defiant manner. "Oh yes, there are," Ezra Girdlestone remarked, coming into the room. He had been standing between the two doors which led to the counting-house, and had overheard the latter portion of the conversation.
The little man laid his battered hat silently on a chair near the door, pulled down his tight linen sleeves with the funereal binding, adjusted his high black stock, and with half-creeping, half-cringing movement, advanced to where St. George sat. "I said good-morning, Mr. Gadgem," repeated St. George in his most captivating tone of voice. He had been greatly amused at Gadgem's antics.
Chupin listened to this homily with a half-cringing, half-impudent air; when it was finished he lifted his head, and said, proudly: "I do not ask for alms." "What do you ask then?" "My dues." The heart of Mme. Blanche sank, and yet she had courage to cast a glance of disdain upon the speaker, and said: "Ah! do I owe you anything?"
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