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Again she laughed that almost mirthless laugh for which her mother had called her to account a moment before. "You asked me a while ago what I was laughing at, mother," she continued. "Why, can't you guess? Mr.
Again Astley laughed in a mirthless fashion, as he answered: "Oh, that thing! That's the passengers' glass. I told the steward to put it out of gear so that you might not be frightened; it is an old trick. Look at this," and he produced one of the portable variety out of his pocket. We looked, and it stood somewhere between 27 degrees and 28 degrees.
Around the corner was Sixth Avenue, surface cars, the elevated, taxicabs, a multitude of people, any one of a hundred ways in which she could, and would, already have discounted pursuit from him and, besides, he would not even have been able to recognise her if he saw her! Jimmie Dale's smile was mirthless as he turned back to the car, and picked up the glove. Why had she dropped it there?
It rested on me, the last of the three of us, and from me travelled to Yva. "I wonder why I have sent for you?" he said at length, with a mirthless laugh. "I think it must be that I may convince Bickley, the sceptic, that there are powers which he does not understand, but that I have the strength to move.
He managed a mirthless, dreary laugh, a rattling sound that fell, dead of any feeling, from his grimacing lips. "No, by God!" he refused. "I'll give it to neither of you. I don't have to!" In that moment, he fell to pieces. With his thick shoulders dropping forward, he became an inert mass bundled against the table edge.
They'd have to listen whether they wanted to or not if they were all in the same fix that fellow is," he added with a short, mirthless laugh. Tad swung himself into the saddle, first having coiled his rope and hung it in its place. "Good-bye," he sang out, starting out at a gallop and disappearing in the night.
Rhoda Gray took her revolver from her pocket. She was well armed and in more than a material sense. The Adventurer did not know that she was aware of the Pug's identity. Her smile, still mirthless, deepened. She might even turn the tables upon them, and still secure the stolen stones. She had turned the tables upon Pinkie Bonn last night; to-night, if she used her wits, she could do it again!
Ramen jerked his head toward the square outside in an imperious fashion, and Kirk, curious to learn the cause of this unusual excitement, followed him without demur. When they had reached the street the Spaniard turned with flashing eyes and a mirthless smile. "Well!" he said, dramatically. "Pretty well. How goes it with you?" "So! You 'ave socceed in your cowardly attemp'." "My what?"
Betty's eyes in the flickering glare of the candle light, were steady and unwavering as she vainly searched for any sign of emotion in the mask-like features of the man seated before her. She saw the mask break presently, and a cold, mirthless smile wreathe his lips. "You make me sick," he said slowly. "If you'd had any sense you'd have told the old fool to go to hell! You're goin' to reform me?
I don't know how I can escape from it." "It is attached to the house, not to you personally. You must leave the house." "Yes. Only I cannot afford to leave the house, for my work is my sole means of support, and well, you see, since this change I cannot even write. They are horrible, these mirthless tales I now write, with their mockery of laughter, their diabolical suggestion. Horrible!
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