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Well, let Seagreave save him now. And how?" his harsh, mirthless laughter rang out. "Yes, how? Does Seagreave know the secret trails over the mountains? Not he. Then how is our dear José to escape? Will you engage to get him safely out of Colina on a railroad train? I think not. Remember there is a big price on his head."
"I am sending Seacliff round to the Cosmopolis to-night. I am sure you, will do everything you can. Good-bye, my boy, good-bye." Archie continued his walk. This, he felt, was beginning to be a bit thick. He smiled a bitter, mirthless smile as he recalled the fact that less than half an hour had elapsed since he had expressed a regret that he did not belong to the ranks of those who do things.
Sabatini turned his head slowly towards the speaker, and his face had become like the face of an inquisitor, stern and merciless, with the flavor of death in the cold, mirthless parting of the lips. "Then you drank a very bad brand, my friend," he declared.
He gave her a quick glance and looked away immediately. "I couldn't expect you to stay on here, not when you've got a chance of going back to the old country. This life is all new to you. You know that one." "Oh, yes, I know it: I should think I did!" She gave a little mirthless laugh, and went over to her chair again. "At eight o'clock every morning a maid will bring me tea and hot water.
I have written ghost stories for years now, serious and comic, and I am to-day at the end of my tether compelled to move forward and yet held back." "That accounts for it," he said, simply. "When I first saw you to -night at the door I could not believe that the author who had provided me with so much merriment could be so pale and worn and seemingly mirthless. Pardon me, Mr.
He laughed with a hideously mirthless chuckle as he returned with ghastly humor, "I have had the worth of my money. I advise you to make the most of your opportunity. I shall make things as pleasant for you as I can, while I am with you, but, as you know, I am liable to leave you at any time, now." "Pray don't hurry away," she replied sweetly. "I shall miss you so when you are gone."
My heart was splitting with hatred; but I listened intently for her reply. I heard it plainly enough. ‘But I must leave this place, Frederick,’ she said—‘I never can be happy here,—nor anywhere else, indeed,’ she added, with a mirthless laugh,—‘but I cannot rest here.’ ‘But where could you find a better place?’ replied he, ‘so secluded—so near me, if you think anything of that.’
Hain't got 'nough o' fightin' yit, I reckon," and the speaker strode forward, with a rough, mirthless laugh. "Wal, damn 'em, they will yere 'fore I 'm done. We 're a goin' ter rush thet thar house 'fore long, an' hang 'bout a dozen Yanks, an' these yere lads will come in right handy ter go in first. If you uns like fightin' so durn well we'll give ye your bellies full.
Australian Ike's elbow just grazed the portieres, and Jimmie Dale flattened himself against the window, holding his breath a smile on his lips that was mirthless, deadly, cold. The end was not far off now; and then WHAT? Stangeist had the outer door of the safe open now and now the inner door swung back.
He looked at the vague form of the girl and bared his teeth in a quick, mirthless smile. "The wind is changing," he muttered. "What now?" There came another rush of wind. But it was not so strong as its predecessors had been; and looking into the sky he could see the cloud movement. He shook Virginia by the shoulder, and there was a triumphant ring in his voice as he shouted into her ear,
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