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The listless applause that had greeted them in the parade showed that. Then, with a howl, half-sullen, half-ferocious, Vienna trundled old Niagara to the reservoir, stuck her intake pipe deep in the water, and manned her brake-beams. To the surprise of the onlookers her regular foreman took his station with the rest of the crew. Uncle Brad Trufant, foreman emeritus, took command.
But I could see that he advanced this theory solely out of consideration for me; that he did not really believe it. "At all events," he went on, "we cannot prove anything this way; we must revert to our original idea. I wonder if Gilbertine will give me the chance to speak to her." "You will have an easier task than I," was my half-sullen retort.
And before he could protest again, Mrs Halloran had thrust her way into the room and stood curtseying, with tears of recent weeping upon her homely and extremely dirty face. Behind her shuffled a lanky, sheepish-eyed boy, and took up his stand at her shoulder with a look half-sullen, half-defiant.
I hardly thought he could have had time to get into trouble." "Come here, Patrick!" said Mr. Lorimer. Patrick advanced. He looked neither at Avery nor his father, but kept his eyes rigidly downcast. His freckled face had a half-frightened, half-sullen expression. He halted before Mr. Lorimer who took him by the shoulder, and turned him round towards Avery. "Tell Mrs. Denys what you did!" he said.
He smiled brilliantly in answer to the furtive, half-sullen, half-curious glance she stole at him, as she brought the dishes in. "Ah! potatoes warmed up in cream!" he said, with hearty pleasure in his tone. "What a mind-reader you are, to be sure!" "I'm glad you're feeling so much better," she said briefly, taking her seat. "Better?" he returned. "I'm a new being!"
"Well, as long as you know all that, there's a common basis and a common starting-point," remarked Harker, "so I'll begin at Brake's trial. It was I who arrested Brake. There was no trouble, no bother. He'd been taken unawares, by an inspector of the bank. He'd a considerable deficiency couldn't make it good couldn't or wouldn't explain except by half-sullen hints that he'd been cruelly deceived.
He was thin, sandy-haired, and wiry, about forty-five, with restless hands, and a cowed, half-sullen expression a drinker of strong drinks of the kind manufactured at the shanties, corrosive liquids that ate the souls out of men in quick order. Having disposed of the bullocks, the tinkling of whose bells was a foreign note in the night, two others came to the fire, carrying the tucker-box.
Once in a while, indeed, there is a gleam of sky along the horizon, or a half-cheerful, half-sullen lighting up of the atmosphere; the rain-drops cease to patter down, except when the trees shake off a gentle shower; but soon we hear the broad, quiet, slow, and sure recommencement of the rain.
I shall hate you if you do. I sha'n't always be poor. Some day," her eyes grew dreamy, "I'll have all sorts of lovely clothes. When I am a " She stopped abruptly, then said in her usual half-sullen tones, "I can't go, so don't ask me." Marjorie looked curiously at this strange girl. The longer she knew Constance the better she liked her, but she did not in the least understand her.
Then what mad, half-sullen, half-petulant, and wholly reckless impulse sprang into his brain! "Well, will you wear that as an engagement-ring, if I give it to you?" he asked. She looked up, startled, amused, but not displeased. "Why, really really that is a question to ask!" she exclaimed.
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