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I took one flying leap into the little orchard from the window of the parlour which had been given up to the Maitlands, Louis and Miss Irma. Then I glided among the trees, choosing those I knew would hide me, and leaped on Master Boyd from behind as he was craning his neck to peer round the corner in the direction of the house door.
Narkom" he turned to the superintendent "keep an eye on Dollops for me, will you? There are reasons why I can't take him, can't take anybody, with me in the working out of this case. I may be a couple of days or I may be a week, I can't say as yet, but I start with Count Irma for Mauravania in the morning. And, Mr. Narkom." "Yes, old chap?" "Do me a favour, please.
The officers had taken refuge in their opera-glasses, and spoke while gazing round the house. 'If neither this girl nor Irma is going to appear, there is no positive necessity for my presence here, said the General, reduced to excuse himself to himself. 'I'll sit through the first scene and then beat a retreat.
But oh, the agony I suffered to think what my father, and still more my grandmother, would say to me because I had let my sister expose herself on such an errand. Twenty times I was on the point of sallying forth after her. Twenty times the sight of the pale face of Irma waiting there stopped me, and the thought that I was the only protector of the two poor things in that great house.
None the less she is showing me my duty. If I can rescue poor Lilia's baby from that horrible man, who will bring it up either as Papist or infidel who will certainly bring it up to be vicious I shall do it." "You talk like Harriet." "And why not?" said she, flushing at what she knew to be an insult. "Say, if you choose, that I talk like Irma.
The Duchess of Graatli, who had forborne a visit to her unhappy friends, lest her Austrian face should wound their sensitiveness, was in company with the Lenkensteins one day, when Irma di Karski called on them. Irma had come from Lago Maggiore, where she had left her patron, as she was pleased to term Antonio-Pericles.
Then Muriel appeared, surrounded by her friends, and in another instant the girl with the dimples, the fair-haired girl, the stout girl and the Evil Genius were, with varying degrees of friendliness, telling Marjorie Dean that they were glad to meet her. Susan Atwell said so frankly with a delightful show of dimples. Irma Linton looked the acme of gentle friendliness.
Kalman, come hither. Irma, you will care for your brother. He is young. He is a boy. He will need care. Kalman, heart of my life!" "He does not understand Russian," said Paulina. "Speak in Galician." "Ha," cried the man, turning sharply upon her as if he had forgotten her existence. "Kalman, my son," he proceeded in Russian, "did you not understand what I said to your sister?"
Gone back on your grub, eh?" It was his clerk, Samuel Sprink, whose sharp little eyes had not failed to note the gloomy glances of his employer. "Pretty gay girl, our Irma has come to be," continued the cheerful Samuel, who prided himself on his fine selection of colloquial English. "She's a beaut now, ain't she? A regular bird!" Rosenblatt started.
Then, when Lakatos Pál first became ill long even before he confided in Pater Bonifácius I made inquiries at the War Office and found out the truth." "Whatever made you do that?" asked Irma, with a shrug of the shoulders. "Andor wasn't anything to you."
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