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Unconsciously, Billy's own tenderness took fire at the flame. "Why don't we run away with 'em?" he said, breathing heavily. Dick stopped in a convenient doorway to light his third cigarette, end on. "It's the answer to you and Caroline," he said. "Why not to you and Nancy?" "It may be," Dick said, "I dunno. I've reached an impasse. Still there is a great deal in your proposition."
I am going to jump down." Then she sprang from the mulberry-tree, to the great consternation of Silvere. He heard the dull thud of her fall, and the burst of laughter with which she ran off, without choosing to reply to his last adieu. For some minutes he would remain watching her vague figure as it disappeared in the darkness, then, slowly descending, he regained the Impasse Saint-Mittre.
War seemed imminent, but as so often happens in Anglo-Saxon procedure, a way out of the legal impasse was found in a fictitious alibi, and McLeod was acquitted.
He wouldn't be a bad person to go to," he added musingly, "if one had got himself into a real impasse or what looked like one. Paula has chucked his opera, you know." She nodded, evidently not in the least surprised and, no more, perturbed by this intelligence. "He won't mind that," she explained.
"English subject; living in Impasse des Nonnes. I have an impression that we have had that name before us during the last week or so Have you any recollection of it?" He put the tube to his ear. And then the American Senator, looking at the Paris Prefect of Police, was struck by a sudden change which came over the listener's face.
"I cannot tell any more I know nothing more." Was she lying? I was not expert enough in feminine psychology to judge, but down in my heart I knew that the woman was hiding something behind that forced steadiness. What was it she was battling for? We had reached an impasse. It was after dinner when I met Craig at the laboratory.
It chanced that, when an impasse seemed possible to be broken only by force, a telegram came to John Grier at Montreal telling him of the difficulty. He lost no time in making his way northwards. But some one else had come upon the scene. It was Luke Tarboe.
Washington was taking stock quietly of national resources and watching for Germany's next move. The winter impasse in Europe gave way to the first fighting of spring, raids and sorties mostly, since the ground was still too heavy for the advancement of artillery.
Is such a game worth the candle?" Without replying, I slowed down again. "I tell you to get off this car otherwise you must take the consequences," was my cool response. Those were terribly exciting moments, and how I remained so calm I cannot tell. My whole future depended upon my extrication from that impasse. Perhaps that is why my wits had, in that moment, become so sharpened.
Masters provided for no such contingency," snapped the lawyer; "he never entertained such a preposterous idea as your refusing." "To conform to his will," concluded Christopher drily. The three men were silent a while, each struggling to see some way out of the impasse into which they had arrived. "You say the various companies are entirely distinct from each other?" queried Mr.
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