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He checked the mare's impetuosity as he came down the slope. She was too valuable for him to risk her legs. With all her vices, he knew there was not a horse on the ranch that could stand beside the Lady Jezebel on the trail. She propped jerkily as she descended the hill. Every little rustle of the lank grass startled her, and gave her excuse for frivolity.
"Well, Gilian?" said he, a touch of irony in his accent, himself looking a droll figure, hunched round his books and turning like a weathercock jerkily to keep the umbrella between him and the wind that strained its whalebone ribs till they almost snapped. Gilian stopped, looked hard at the ground, said never a word. And old Brooks, over him, gazed at the wet figure with puzzlement and pity.
I took a shot and was beginning to reload, when suddenly there was a loud crackling behind me, and a man on horseback came towards me, pushing the bushes apart with his hands. 'Sir... pe-ermit me to ask, he began in a haughty voice, 'by what right you are er shooting here, sir? The stranger spoke extraordinarily quickly, jerkily and condescendingly.
The subjects registered jerkily by the films were crude and amusing, such as of Fred Ott's sneeze, Carmencita dancing, Italians and their performing bears, fencing, trapeze stunts, horsemanship, blacksmithing just simple movements without any attempt to portray the silent drama.
"Or UP to it," he suggested. His sordid little heart was beating rather jerkily. "Won't you stop in and have tea with me?" she asked suddenly. He thought rapidly. "I'm sorry. I'm having tea with some New York people at the Ritz. Awfully sorry. People I shouldn't like to offend or I'd send an excuse. You understand, I hope." Her jaws were set.
"Louis, did you write and tell your father you didn't want any more money?" He took out his packet of cigarettes he never possessed a cigarette case, such things were to be turned into money too easily. His hands were trembling as he struck a match. "Yes I t-told him," he said jerkily. "What did you say about me?" she asked curiously. He pondered for a moment. At last he decided to be honest.
Donovan, who, among others on the station platform, watched the drab anchor as it clanked jerkily upward to the bows, leaving a swivel and a boil on the waters which had released it so grudgingly. "I guess it ain't goin' t' be any ol' pirate this time," replied Mr. Donovan, with a pleasurable squeeze of the pocket-book over his heart. "Well, I hope he finds what he's going after," generously.
"Why aren't you engaged now? Tell me anything you want. What happened?" "Mother Swink happened!" Tom's words came jerkily. "She wouldn't even let me talk to her; made a devil of a row, dragged Madeleine all around Europe, wouldn't let her have a letter from me sent them back herself and told Madeleine if she married me she would never speak to me." "That ought to have given you courage.
"I don't suppose," he began, "that there's any use asking you about your movements last night?" "None," Bobby answered jerkily, "unless you arrest me and take me before those who ask questions with authority." The detective's smile widened. "No matter. I didn't come to argue with you about that. I was curious to know if you'd tried to see your grandfather's body." Bobby shook his head.
He glanced at her, and then made great business with brakes and levers, for Mrs. Devar was still inquisitive. "There is a fine old Pilgrims' Inn, the George, in the main street," he said jerkily. "I propose to stop there; the entrance to the Abbey is exactly opposite.
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