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He carefully drew the blinds and struck a match. The first object which met his gaze was a fallen candle. This he lit and when the glare of the flame softened, all the corners of the room stood out. Nowhere was there any sign of a gun. He gave vent to a half-muttered curse. Some one had pilfered the gun, or the proprietor was keeping it until the Englishman returned from the duchy.
Nathan, with a half-muttered word of good-bye to the children, had started toward the door; but the newcomer's hand grasped his arm. "Wait a minute!" he said, swinging the boy about. "I'm not so sure about letting you start off so smart. You may head straight for the fort, for all I know. What's your name?" Nathan stood silent. His face flushed, but he looked the newcomer steadily in the face.
But through all the secret joy and triumph that possessed him at the remembrance of this rendezvous, he could not but sigh as he watched the little procession of sportsmen opposite, and almost involuntarily his regret escaped him in the half-muttered words "I shall never shoot again." "There are things even better worth doing in life," said John, sympathetically.
His hand, behind his back, extracted the key from the door lock, held it up for the other to see, then dropped it into his pocket and his voice, cold before, rang peremptorily now. "Come back to the desk and sit down in that chair!" he ordered. For a moment Carling hesitated; then, with a half-muttered oath, obeyed.
From either hand there arose a buzz of amazement and incredulity mingled with grunts of approval and blunt compliments and half-muttered pleas for leniency. Only two persons neither exclaimed nor moved. Helga stood in the rigid tearless silence she had promised, her eyes pouring into her lover's eyes all the courage and loyalty and love of her brave soul.
The old woman cut the other shoe, same as it says here. It were a bad thing of us to take the kid, that it were." At this point the man was seized with a violent fit of coughing. When it had subsided, he resumed his half-muttered meditations.
Owing to the warmth of the weather, Thaddeus came out this morning without boots; and it being the first time the exquisite proportion of his figure had been so fully seen by any of the present company excepting Euphemia, Lascelles, bursting with an emotion which he would not call envy, measured the count's graceful limb with his scornful eyes; then declaring he was quite in a furnace, took the corner of his glove and waving it to and fro, half-muttered, "Come gentle air."
He turned round, curled his head into his arm, and with a half-muttered, half-dreamt statement about the wicker chair, he was once again asleep. He awoke to the customary sound of the bath water running into the bath. He stared at her, blinking. "You should say 'Many Happy Returns of the Day, Master Jeremy," he remarked.
"And these are the thanks I get for furnishing some means of transportation," said Roy resentfully. "Well, I don't know that I should expect anything else." Herbert, producing his cigarette case, gave a little half-muttered sigh of relief when he found that the contents of the case had escaped a wetting. "Gimme a match, one of you fellows," he coughed. "I'm just crazy for a smoke.
As I said before, he had best remain hidden from view. How Amos would rage if he could see his uncle at this moment!" "Then he has no love for him?" "As much as a frog has for a red rag." The mob, who had been in the best possible humour, now began to show signs of anger as the informer made himself conspicuous, and half-muttered words soon became loudly-spoken threats.
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