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None can do better than this." And so it was determined to send an order to Jasper, as usual. On the next day, a fellow-clerk, who had always performed this little service for Claire, took the order to Jasper. With a nervous impatience that he found it impossible to repress, Claire awaited his return. On his appearance, he said, with ill-concealed anxiety "Did he pay the order?"
"It is vacant," replied the old man. "Good! Come, show me the entrance to the shaft," directed Barney. "You will go without attempting to succor the Princess Emma?" exclaimed the old fellow in ill-concealed chagrin. "Far from it," replied Barney. "Bring your rope and the swords. I think we are going to find the rescuing of the Princess Emma the easiest part of our adventure."
On the other hand, there is this thumb-print, which, in the opinion of the experts, is tantamount to the evidence of an eye-witness that he did commit the theft. It is positively bewildering. Don't you think so?" "As you put it," I answered, "the case is extraordinarily puzzling." "But how else would you put it?" he demanded, with ill-concealed eagerness.
He would give his time, his pen, his speech, his means, to get them justice to get them their rights." She hushed the over-zealous advocate with a sad and bitter smile and essayed to speak, studied as if for English words, and, suddenly abandoning that attempt, said, with ill-concealed scorn and in the Creole patois: "What is all that? What I want is vengeance!"
The man's marvellous magnetism was never more triumphantly attested; the mass, who had listened in profound silence to every syllable which had passed his lips, now vented their enthusiasm in prolonged and vociferous applause. As he descended the steps and disappeared amid the shouts of the crowd, Judge Harris turned to Mr. Huntingdon and said, with ill-concealed annoyance
By the time he returned it was nearly seven. She met him with ill-concealed trouble. "Terry's not back. It's strange. You see I'm responsible for her. And " The footman entered with a letter. "For your Lordship." "Are you sure?" Then Tabs recollected. "Yes, of course. I left my address with Ann." As he took the letter he scanned the handwriting. "Odd!"
I felt myself flushing and would have liked not to answer. But, alas, would she not by degrees have discovered all the pettiness that is ill-concealed under my thin veneer of self-control and determination? I tried to reveal it all in one sentence: "Know this, Rose, that it is in myself and in myself alone that I study the women that I would not be!" I watch my great girl while she talks.
Then I reminded myself that one has got to make allowances for a woman with only about half a spoonful of soup inside her, and I checked the red-hot crack that rose to the lips. "What," I said gently, "is this all about? You seem pipped with Bertram." "Pipped!" "Noticeably pipped. Why this ill-concealed animus?" A sudden flame shot from her eyes, singeing my hair.
'Mine, said H. S. D., with ill-concealed importance. 'Oh yes, of course, said Selwyn, wondering how any one so stationary as the other could project anything precipitate. 'New York was keenly interested. 'Ah, said the English author benignly, 'it is satisfactory to hear that. Of course, the great difference between there and here is that in New York one impresses: in London one is impressed.
"He has always treated you well?" I bethought myself of the trick I had played successfully with the officer of the burgess guard. "Why, yes, I suppose so. I have only known him two days." "But you have known him well? You have seen much of him?" he demanded with ill-concealed eagerness. "But not so very much," I made tepid answer. "I have not been with him all the time of these two days.
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