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The suggestion was carried out at once. "I'll drive along fast, if you want," proposed the driver, "and get the togs down to the grounds ahead of your team." "If you please," nodded Dick. "Our boys will want everything ready when they reach the grounds." So the two chums were quickly carried beyond the noise and confusion. A few minutes later the wagon turned in at the Fordham Athletic grounds.
"You are not making a speech, dear," the Duchess remarked, looking coldly across the room at him. "We are all anxious to hear what the Prince has to say to us." "Your anxiety," the Duke continued, "and the anxiety of our friends must be restrained for a few minutes, for there are certain things which I am determined to say, and to say them now.
In a few minutes the old trader scraped up about a hundred eggs, to the immense satisfaction of Martin and Barney. Then he took a bow and arrow from the bottom of the montaria and shot a large turtle in the water, while his companions kindled a fire, intending to dine.
As I was not able to satisfy myself from any Chart what land it was we saw to Leeward of us, and fearing it might trend away more Southerly, and the weather being hazey so that we could not see far, we steer'd South-West, which Course by 4 o'Clock run us out of sight of the land; by this I was assured that no part of it lay to the Southward of 8 degrees 15 minutes South.
In five minutes we had fastened them cunningly together. "I am the lightest," said Croisette. "But Marie has the steadiest head," I objected. We had learned that long ago that Marie could walk the coping-stones of the battlements with as little concern as we paced a plank set on the ground. "True," Croisette had to admit.
All was referred to pages in the manuscripts. "By this means, sir," resumed the latter, "you will gut my fish in a jiffy; permit me to recall that expression, with apologies for my freedom. I would say, you will, in a few minutes of your valuable existence, skim the cream of Triplet." This author's respect for the manager's time carried him into further and unusual details.
They remained out on the road, looking up and down, for five minutes, and then returned to the house. "Did he steal anything?" asked Shep. "By gum! I didn't think o' that!" gasped Aaron Masterson. He took a thorough look around and then came in and gave a sigh of satisfaction. "Nothin' missing, so far as I can see," he said. "Reckon he was too scart to pick up anything.
Somehow, even in the last extremity, Duke Dugdale could win people over to do his pleasure, which was always for their own good.. He sat by her and talked, but only for a few minutes he had no thought of wasting even in kindness the time on which might hang life or death. "I am going now, and you must stay here till my return, which is sure not to be for at least two hours." "Two hours!
While our family party were sitting over dessert, a cork jumped from an apollinaris-water bottle on the sideboard. I took no notice at first, but after the conversation was ended, I got up and looked about for a few minutes, soon giving up the search. My brother asked what I was looking for, and I answered.
That he would not follow never occurred to them until minutes thereafter. Not until, panting, struggling for breath after the unusual effort, they had covered the intervening mile, and the heat of the already diminishing fire was on their faces, did they think of him at all.
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