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"No," returned Peters, impatiently. "Why, that was Professor Lawrence Grant! THE Lawrence Grant don't you know? the biggest scientific man and recognized expert on the Pacific slope. Why, that's the man whose single word is enough to make or break the biggest mine or claim going! That man! why, that's the man whose opinion's worth thousands, for it carries millions with it and can't be bought.
Mother Gutch took an appreciative pull at her glass and smiled knowingly. "What then?" she chuckled. "All lies, young man, the boy isn't dead any more than I am. And my secret is " "Well?" demanded Spargo impatiently. "What is it?" "This!" answered Mother Gutch, digging her companion in the ribs, "I know what she did with him!"
I wish that you would be a little more intelligible," cry they all, impatiently. "He is going to the West Indies, to Antigua," reply I, lifting my face and speaking with a slow dejection. "To Antigua!" cries Algy; "but what in the world is going to take him there?"
But although he waited eagerly for her answer, not a word came from the Lady Emmelina; and the Prince ceased to feel sorry for her, and gave up apologising. "It is your own fault, and I don't care a bit," he said, impatiently; and he rolled the large white stone over the hole, until the doll from Fairyland was completely hidden.
That young woman, for instance, with her khaki divided skirt, wide sombrero, fringed gauntlets and the big western saddle coming there on a horse whose feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground as he plunged and pranced impatiently along, springing side-wise, with arched neck and pointed ears, at every object that could possibly be made into something frightful by his playful fancy!
And, O Miss Olive, if you could but have seen him in his wedding-clothes your heart would have broken to think that you had lost the opportunity of standing by them at the altar." "But who was the bride?" asked Mrs. Easterfield impatiently. "Miss Eliza Grogworthy." "Now, Tom, I know you are joking! Why can't you be serious?" "I am as serious as were that couple.
Very likely he'd settled something on them, which can't be touched. A man like that generally does. 'Poor things! she said, shuddering. 'But, John you'll pay it back to Mrs. Morrison? 'Of course I shall, he said, impatiently 'in due time. But please remember, Phoebe, that's my affair. Don't you talk of it to any one. He looked up to emphasise his words. Phoebe flushed.
Parson Babbage kept picking up the heavy Prayer-book, opening it, and laying it down impatiently. Occasionally, as one of the congregation scraped an impatient foot, a metallic sound made itself heard, and the buzz of conversation would sink for a moment, as if by magic.
"But will you not receive Sir Frederick?" said her father, anxiously. "I will meet him," she replied, "I will meet him when I must, and where I must; but spare me now." "Be it so, my dearest; you shall know no restraint that I can save you from. Do not think too hardly of Sir Frederick for this, it is an excess of passion." Isabella waved her hand impatiently.
"You say, sir, that you could with the more impunity kill me?" "Since your grace is already dead," said Rutler, with a sinister smile. "Exactly, my lord; that is very simple." "You think that very simple, sir?" "I do not think you wish to deny, my lord, what is known to all the world," said Rutler impatiently.
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