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Jack and Walter stood confronting, in the glare of several electric lights, the portly form of Senor Ramo, who seemed ill at ease. The members of the mutinous crew stood about, rather shame-facedly, it must be confessed. Lieutenant Walling wore an air of triumph. He had brought the criminals to the end of their rope. "Jack! Where are they?" asked Cora, impulsively.
Jobling disappeared, and his wife flushed darkly as he came back with his coat on and his hair wet from combing. An awkward silence ensued. "How strong your husband is!" said the girl, clasping her hands impulsively. "Is he?" said Mrs. Jobling. "He lifted me up as though I had been a feather," responded the girl. "He just put his arm round my waist and had me on my feet before I knew where I was."
Colonel Vereker stretched out both his impulsively, and gripped those of Garry O'Neil. "Heavens!" he cried, with tears in his eyes. "You are a white man, sir. I can't say more than that, and I am proud to know you!" "Och, niver moind that, colonel," said the Irishman, putting aside the compliment, the highest the colonel thought he could give.
There she sat, with her chin propped on her hands, elbows on her knees, and gazed silently at the logs. "Why did they have to come just now and spoil my holiday?" She spoke as though unconscious that her musings were finding voice, and the half-whispered words were wistful. Benton took a step nearer and bent impulsively forward. "What is it?" he anxiously questioned.
"Fifteen years! yes. Yes Jacob and I were good friends." As he spoke the last word a tear trickled from beneath Mr. Tertius's spectacles and ran down into his beard, and Peggie, catching sight of it, impulsively jumped from her seat and kissed him affectionately. "Never mind, Mr. Tertius!" she said, patting his shoulders. "You and I are friends, too, anyway.
"Indeed I will," she said, impulsively, her blue eyes soft with gratitude. "Very well," observed Sir Peter Grebe, swallowing his indignation and waddling off towards the door; "I shall resign my position on this committee yes, I will, I tell you!" as the King of Finland laid a fatherly hand on Sir Peter's sleeve "I'll not be made responsible for this damn "
Unknown to herself, however, something worked in her, for, the very next time Maurice was there, she met him in the passage, as he was leaving, and impulsively thrust a paper parcel into his hand. "There is a book, if you care to take it." He did not express the surprise he felt, nor did he look at the title.
The girl had not dared tell her brother that the outlaw was still within his reach. She knew how impulsively his anger would move to swift action. "We Rutherfords ain't liable to forget this, Mr. Beaudry. Dad has been 'most crazy since Boots disappeared. He'll sure want to thank you himself soon as he gets a chance," blurted Ned.
Presently Mrs. Harrington's breath flagged, and the three women went away, back to the room they had been in before. Phyllis sat and let herself be talked to for a little longer. Then she rose impulsively. "May I go back and see your son again for just a minute?" she asked, and had gone before Mrs. Harrington had finished her permission.
It was not logical; she did not push her postulates to their obvious conclusions; and there was apt to be the same kind of break between her conclusions and her actions as between her reasons and her conclusions. She acted impulsively, and from a force which she could not analyse.
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