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Updated: June 16, 2025
The light fell full on his sallow baldness and its ring of iron-gray hair; on his sallow, sickly face; on his little long, peaked nose with its peevish nostrils; even on his thin and irritable mouth, unhidden by the scanty, close-trimmed iron-gray mustache and beard. He was weedy to the last degree. Ranny came near and gazed inscrutably at this miracle of physical unfitness.
I do not understand, quite, how he should fall like dat, but he is dead. Four of you get de body aft." "Please, sir," accosted Conroy, and the tall captain turned. "Veil, vat is it?" "Can I go below, sir? It was me that found him, sir. I feel rather rather bad." "So!" The tall captain considered him inscrutably, he, the final arbiter of fates. "You feel bad yes? Veil, you can go below!"
The very best people in Havana are interested in the matter. Our schooners lie in Rio Medio, but I can't be there all the time myself." Surprise deprived me of speech. I glanced at Carlos. He was watching us inscrutably. The young girl touched the lizard gently, but it was too frightened to move. O'Brien, with shrewd glances, rocked his chair.... What did I want? he inquired. To see life?
With the brogue strong upon him he told how Finn McCoul had stolen the clothes of a bathing queen and he told in stirring phrase the exploits of Ireland's mighty hero, Cuchullin. He had never had a better listener. Adam Craig fixed his piercing eyes inscrutably upon the teller's face, drank glass after glass of brandy, and remained polite, intent and silent.
Look at me, dear! Don't you understand how I want you for my wife?" For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. But suddenly her look changed and deepened inscrutably. "I'm not sure if I DO understand," she said. "Is it is it because you're not certain of continuing to care for me?"
Something makes me credit it a strange little notion that I have carried that child's picture in my own mind." "We are even, then," I answered, "only you are thinking more things than you say. That isn't fair." But she only nodded her head inscrutably. The significance of Miss Lansdale's manner, rather than her words, ran through my darkened thoughts like a thread as I played the game that night.
He nodded, with his little quizzical smile, to the composed young woman who stood within the railing. "Anybody here, Betty?" A slight movement of her prettily poised head indicated the door marked "Mr. Evans." And she said, "Penny's there." "Is he shut up, too? His partner is too important to be seen today." "Oh no," Betty replied, inscrutably sober, "he's not important." Mr.
And so they was married, Chester and his bride attending the ceremony and Oscar Teetz' five-piece orchestra playing the " She broke off, with a suddenly blazing glance at the disk, and seized it from the table rather purposefully. With a hand firmly at both edges she stared inscrutably at it a long moment. "I hate to break the darned thing," she said musingly at last.
For that I shall not tell you who I am." "It does not matter; I know." "You know! But how?" "I know many things." "What is it then? Tell me!" He hesitated, smiling at her inscrutably. The flames from the fire were leaping high now, throwing the lantern-light into eclipse.
It had indeed again an effect of almost pathetic incoherence that our brave quest of "the languages," suffering so prompt and for the time at least so accepted and now so inscrutably irrecoverable a check, should have contented itself with settling us by that Christmas in a house, more propitious to our development, in St.
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