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As Claire was half-rising to depart, M. Daburon detained her by a gesture. In his blindness, he thought he would be doing wrong to leave this poor young girl in the slightest way deceived. Having gone so far as to begin, he persuaded himself that his duty bade him go on to the end.
Once, she opened her mouth as if to call. Half-rising, she started as if to run to the house. But, presently, curiosity apparently overruled her fear, and, throwing herself flat on the ground she wormed her way back to the brink of the river-bank. Cautiously, without making a sound, she peered through the tall grass and weeds that fringed the rim above the eddy.
"Oh, that's what's the matter with you you're thinking about the money, eh? Well, you always did hate to lose." An insulting epithet burst from L. W.'s set lips, but Rimrock let it pass. "Oh, that's all right," he said. "Never mind my feelings. Say, how much do you figure I owe you?" "You don't owe me nothing!" cried L. W. half-rising.
"And I hope, sir," Greg put in, "that nothing will happen to change your mind about the danger. For my part, I have been eating in momentary expectation of feeling a big smash against the side of the ship." "What is happening now?" demanded Lieutenant Noll Terry, half-rising from his chair.
One man motioned with a hand at the rough trail running over the top of the shale in the middle of the area, but the other seemed to argue that the edge-trail was the best one to take. "Oh dear! I hope they won't take that slippery one!" cried Polly, in tense nervousness. "I wish we could yell and warn them!" exclaimed Eleanor, half-rising from her seat.
Recognizing it, he grew pale, and then red, half-rising from his seat to speak to Osric, but thinking better thereof. "Well; what news and whence?" said the sheriff, who was a small, wiry man, with a sour look, as I thought. Men spoke well of him though. "The Danes lie off the Holms, sir," I said, for I would gain time.
Sometimes even, half-rising, he delicately pointed out to Madame the tenderest morsel, or turning to the servant, gave her some advice on the manipulation of stews and the hygiene of seasoning. He talked aroma, osmazome, juices, and gelatine in a bewildering manner.
Much of his talk was therefore lost on me; but the last sentences were as clear as if they had dropped from the lips of my old teacher, Senor Morales. Half-rising from my chair, I placed my hand over my shirt-front and thanked his Excellency for his confidence really one of the greatest compliments that had ever been paid me in all my professional career.
"Being such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that wouldn't to us to me, I mean." "A little bit wild," said his visitor again. "Sam Burge, the Converted Burglar, a little bit wild. Well, well!" "Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair. "Burglar," said the other shortly.
"I don't exactly remember, Matilda, but it seems to me that there was handwriting like this among the letters you sent to me to keep for you." Matilda gaped at Mr. Pyecroft. Mrs. De Peyster, half-rising on an elbow, peered in amazed stupefaction at her incalculable young man of the sea.
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