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"No, Severn, not the slightest, and as soon as I found the Professor making such a request one that he certainly ought not to have made I repented very bitterly of that which I felt to be a gross error on my part. There," he continued, with a half-laugh, "you see I can speak frankly when I have made a mistake. I hope you will always do the same.
In many places the dairy was underground, and why might there not be some place below here from which he could make his escape? He stamped with his foot and listened. Hollow, without a doubt. He tried in another part, and another; and no matter where, the sound was such as would arise from a place beneath whose floor there was some great vault. "That'll do," he said to himself, with a half-laugh.
"Well, my boy, I can't help feeling the same, though she's neither enemy nor friend of ours, and we don't know what it all means; for I don't suppose," he said, with a half-laugh, "that she has got Napoleon Bonaparte on board." Uncle Paul had not taken his nephew's precaution, and as a heavy gust was just dying out, the excited waiter caught a part of his speech. "Ha, ha!" he cried. "You sink so?
Sydney never truckled: he was perfectly independent in manner and in thought; but the good things of the world were so desirable to him that for some of them as he confessed to himself with a half-laugh at his own weakness he would almost have sold his soul. They arrived at Culverley shortly before dinner, and Sydney had time for very few introductions before going to the dining-room.
"When I'm with you, it seems impossible to realize that there are people so narrow and contracted in their natures as to take account of such things. It is another atmosphere that I breathe near you. How could you imagine that such a thought about our difference of creed would enter my head? In fact," he concluded with a nervous half-laugh, "there isn't any such difference.
'Drink this, he said, forcing the mouth of the flask between the boy's lips. 'Take a shot of rum. It will put the guts back into you. The young soldier choked with the burning liquid, and tears oozed from his eyes, but the chill of the body passed, and with it the chill of cowardice. With a half-whimper, half-laugh, he forced a silly, coarse jest from his lips. 'Where did you get it, Sherwood?
In a small place you know fewer people; but you know them intimately." She broke off with a half-laugh. "I'm from New York," she stated humorously, "and you've magicked me into an eloquent defense of Podunk!" She laughed up at Orde quite frankly. "Giant Strides!" she challenged suddenly.
"You've hit, Joe," cried Rodd excitedly, as he stood amidst the smoke, which began to spread about where they gathered. "Yes, sir, I hit," said the man, with a half-laugh, as the crew of the gun busied themselves sponging out and preparing to re-load. "They pretty well filled her to the muzzle, but they got what they meant for us. But hallo! what's the meaning of this 'ere?
There'll be wind before morning, and you'll have to make sail." "All right, skipper," said the man with a half-laugh, and he and his lantern disappeared, while I clung there listening and wondering why Jarette did not go aft. Could he see me?
"I have served him ever since he was born," said Lazarus. "He's he's yours," said The Rat, still thinking deeply. "I am his," was Lazarus's stern answer. "I am his and the young Master's." "That's it," The Rat said. Then a squeak of a half-laugh broke from him. "I've never been anybody's," he added. His sharp eyes caught a passing look on Lazarus's face. Such a queer, disturbed, sudden look.
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