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The tumult was certainly increasing. Trent swore softly, and then looked irresolutely over his shoulder to where Monty was sleeping. "If the worst comes we shall never get away quickly," he muttered. "That old carcase can scarcely drag himself along." Sam looked at him with cunning eyes. "He not fit only die," he said softly. "He very old, very sick man, you leave him here! I see to him."
And she stood with the incompleted sentence on her lips waiting irresolutely for Charles to come upstairs. In a moment he burst into the room with all his usual exuberance and high spirit. "Picture to yourselves!" he cried, standing in the doorway with his arms extended before him. "I was hurrying to head-quarters when I ran into the embrace of my dear Louis my cousin.
I don't know what he might have said, only at that moment we heard through the half open door of the billiard-room the footsteps of two men entering from the verandah, a murmur of two voices; at the sharp tapping of a coin on a table Mrs. Schomberg half rose irresolutely.
She was a poor beggar child, out in the rain, and a little frightened at the approach of a stranger. She did not move away, however; but stood eying me irresolutely, with that pathetic mixture of interrogation and defiance in her face which is so often seen in the prematurely developed faces of poverty-stricken children. "Aren't the colors pretty?" I said. She brightened instantly. "Yes'm.
He halted for a second irresolutely, with the officer's hesitancy at meddling with a drunken man. The fellow on the ground tried to raise himself, and got one elbow on the gravel. This brought him into such a position that he stared straight at the illuminated crucifix across the path, and but little farther in. "Lor', blimey, Joe," he said, "I'm blasted drunk, I am!
He stood irresolutely, hat in hand, waiting for a repetition of Cornelia's invitation, but none came, and with an almost imperceptible shrug of the shoulders, he resigned himself to the inevitable, and announced that it was imperative that he should hasten back to the station to catch a return train to town.
"John, you see?" said the pale lips of Lady Rachel, while she pointed, with a trembling finger, to the court-yard. "Yes, my lady; the doors are fastened." "And Lord Carse not home yet?" "No, my lady. I think perhaps he is somewhere near, and cannot get home." John looked irresolutely towards the child in the window.
Very likely they would never meet again. She flew down the hall to the living room. Monohan stood just within the front door, gazing irresolutely over his shoulder. He took a step or two to meet her. His clean-cut face was drawn into sullen lines, a deep flush mantled his cheek. "Listen," he said tensely. "I've been made to feel like like Well, I controlled myself. I knew it had to be that way.
He paused irresolutely, then he put his hand on the knob of the door to close it, and paused again. With his taste for fictitious horrors, usually indulged in, however, by his own warm fireside, he found the present time and place slightly disquieting; and then Bill's singular and erratic behavior had rather weakened his nerve. From under knitted brows he gazed into the room.
"If a pound of flour costs twelve ores, what will half a quarter of coal cost?" Fris sat for a little while and looked irresolutely at Pelle. It always hurt him more when Pelle was naughty than when it was one of the others, for he had an affection for the boy. "Very well!" he said bitterly, coming slowly down with the thick cane in his hand. "Very well!"
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