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"When I step ashore on the wharf at Port Natal I shall not know in what direction to turn my steps, or where to look for a meal or a night's lodging. Also the whole of my available capital will consist in the wages which I shall take up when Captain Roberts gives me my discharge, amounting, probably, to a couple of shillings." "What?" ejaculated Grosvenor incredulously.

A contemptuous smile played over his features, and, shaking his head incredulously, he answered the Venetian "The watchful jailers you speak of have doubtless been cheering their vigils with the wine flask," said he. "Their draughts must have been deep, to make them hear that which was never spoken." "Subterfuge will avail you nothing," replied Marcello.

"Well, that is what I am now," she said, laughing. "Only I can't get away from all my old friends at once. The day after to-morrow I shall be back at work." "Do you mean it?" he asked incredulously. "Of course I do! You don't suppose I find this sort of thing particularly amusing, do you?

"You?" said Blake incredulously. "Yes, me. When it comes to applying what's in the books, I'm not so worse. You know that, Tommy. But this proposition Only available dam site is across a stretch of bottomless bog, yet it's got to hold a sixty-five foot head of water." "Je-ru-salem!" whistled Blake. "Say, you've sure got to give me a shy at that, Grif. It can't be worked out that's a cinch.

"Why, dash it all!" cried the disgusted colonel, "he's dancing along like a d d mountebank! But it's my Bingo, for all that!" "You are not convince? You shall see more. Azor, ici! Pour Beesmarck, Azor!" And the too accomplished animal rolled over as if killed in battle! "Where could Bingo have picked up so much French?" cried Lilian, incredulously.

"Dear me, Uncle Julius, you must be joking," said my sister-in-law incredulously. I thought she put it mildly. "Oh, no, ma'm, I ain't jokin'. I never jokes on ser'ous subjec's. I wuz dere w'en it all happen'. Hit wuz a monst'us quare thing."

"I know I can get Alan to act, if Molly can't." Molly shrugged her shoulders incredulously, while Jean inquired, with the calmness of desperation, "What shall it be about?" "John Smith and Pocahontas," replied Polly promptly. "He almost gets killed, and doesn't quite; so that will get the audience all stirred up, but save the trouble of dying."

"Working!" grumbled her mother, incredulously. "Well.... I ... have!" asserted Sally. "Perhaps you'd like me to get Miss Summers to give me a certificate? You'll see. I shall have a bit more money at the end of the week. Then you'll rub your eyes. You'll apologise I don't think! No, I'm a bad girl, wasting my time gadding about.

This, at any rate, was a relief. He could hardly have heard our conversation. "But what are you doing in here?" he added, in an important voice. "You must know this room is private, and not for the clerks." "We heard a noise," said I, "and did not know who was here." Hawkesbury smiled incredulously.

We triumph over them, when we learn to live bravely and courageously in them, when we do not seek to evade them or to hasten incredulously away from them. We fail, if we spend our time in repining, in regretting, in wishing the sweet and tranquil hours of untroubled joy back.