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Betty asked with a quick intake of breath, lifting her head toward a stalwart figure rapidly coming down the wide marble steps. Ned Vaughan looked up with a frown: "How did you recognize him?" "By his resemblance to you, of course." "Thanks." "You're as much alike as two black-eyed peas except that you're more slender and boyish." "And not quite so good-looking?"
As we have seen, the people of Manila were formerly supplied with impure drinking water from the Mariquina River, and were therefore in constant danger of infection with cholera and other deadly diseases. At a cost of some $1,500,000 we have given the city a modern water system, the intake of which is far up in the hills above the last village.
By the dam and on the tongue of ground extending from the mountain side where the canal would swing out upon the mesa, excavation for the intake gate and weir and the drops was in progress, with a crew of carpenters swiftly erecting wooden forms to receive the concrete when the diggers finished and retired.
"Oh!" said Tharon Last with an intake of her breath, "Oh, where do they make such things?" "Far on the other side of the world," said Kenset gently, pleased with the wonder in her wide eyes, the evident and quick realization of beauty. She whirled from it and glanced quickly at the two spaces on the rugged walls.
"Oh a little while," said the parson, rousing.... "Long enough, no doubt." The dark-eyed Director was standing. The two men exchanged a look; they seemed to feel each other. Here was a matter with which the Labor Commissioner had nothing to do. "Well, then," said Pond, with a little intake of breath, "I'll go in." The Director shut the door into the hall, took his hat from the chair.
"The police would like an answer to the same question," he said, self-consciously. "Perhaps, you heard nothing of the disappearance of the Duchess of Havant's diamonds?" "Wasdat ?" "The thief," said Jimmy, flicking a speck of dust from his coat sleeve, "was discovered to have used an oxy-acetylene blow-pipe." The rapturous intake of Spike's breath was the only sound that broke the silence.
Footsteps passed down into the vault, and there came a sound as if the unknown had cannoned into a chair, followed by a sharp intake of breath, expressive of pain. A scraping sound, and a flash of light, and part of the vault was lit by a candle. O'Hara caught a glimpse of the unknown's face as he rose from lighting the candle, but it was not enough to enable him to recognise him.
It had come back, the precious intimacy of beauty, with that fullness sitting there in the gondola, he realized with the intake of the breath to express it and the curious throbbing of the palms to grasp. He was able to identify in his bodily response to all that charged the decaying wonder of Venice with opulent personality, the source of his boyish dreams.
The sharp, quick intake of her breath broke the silence as might a cry. Weary after his long day in the saddle, soothed by the warmth of the fire and the rhythm of the music, Roger was sleeping peacefully, his head thrown back against a cushion! Nan rose slowly and, coming forward into the circle of the firelight, stared down at him incredulously. It was unbelievable!
There was nothing more to have. And then I learned to hate." The narrowed eyes came back to the face of the man beside the desk. There was a sharp intake of breath. "This mill, this Sachigo, was built out of my money. And the man who built it was the man who robbed me while I slept."
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